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Cafe Hopping
Story/ Leo Huang

Coffee meets ietnam

Born to be an integral part of life

Every time someone speak of a country with the the world, following Brazil. Its whole year production is
strongest coffee culture in Aisa, we all think about Japan. 2 times higher than 3rd ranked country, Colombia. Based
But after visiting Vietnam, I think this country should be on Chinese customs data, among all the coffee importing
ranked number one in the list. Coffee in Vietnam is born countries, Vietnam is the No.1 country from where
to be part of people’s daily life, just like eating pho. There Middle Kingdom imports the most coffee beans. It is up
is even a saying that what coffee is to Vietnamese is same to 24,600 tons for only 2015, accounting for half of the
as hot dry noodles to Wuhan citizens,Yum Cha to Guang- whole year’s total imports of green coffee. Specialty cof-
zhou people and shengjianbao (pan-fried bun stuffed with fee lovers might be very familiar with coffee from Brazil,
pork) to Shanghainese. Vietnamese has countless reasons Colombia, Indonesia and Ethiopia. However, as the 2nd
to drink coffee every day, that is why cafes are always oc- coffee production country, we can hardly remember our-
cupied by guests, chatting and drinking their favorite drink. selves enjoying Vietnamese coffee. And we have to admit
According to the latest data released by WTO (World it is a dark horse of coffee industry: what is the mysterious
Trade Organization), Vietnam produced up to 1.65 million force behind Vietnam coffee? Rambling on streets of Ho
tons of coffee beans in 2015-2016, ranked the 2nd place in Chi Minh City and Hanoi, you can find traditional Vietnam

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