(VEN) ? It can be said that ?Saigon coffee? is now a distinctive culture with its own specific characteristics in the daily life of Ho Chi Minh City?s inhabitants. There are countless coffee shops serving various types of customers. These shops provide a perfect opportunity to relax, meet friends, discuss business and read online newspapers.
From stylish coffee shops
Stylish coffee shops in Saigon with elegant and modern decoration styles can meet the demand of people from all walks of life. There are shops that you can not help dropping in once coming to the city like: Chot Nho (in Phu Nhuan District), Coi Rieng (District 1), Khuc Ban Chieu (District 3), Do (Binh Thanh), Hinh Nhu La (Phu Nhuan) and more. The specific characteristics of stylish coffee shops is that there is always a private space for customers no matter when you go there alone or with friends.
Another interesting feature is that there are coffee shops that suit your tastes or hobbies. For example, when you drop by Niet Ban coffee shop in District 1, you will be plunged in Buddhism philosophy and religious designs from the chairs and tables, green trees to the spoons to stir coffee cups. At Do (Red) Coffee, you will find red color everywhere due to backlit curtains. If you are keen on old-fashioned motorcycles, ?Ride coffee? in Nguyen Thi Minh Khai Street (District 1) is the ideal destination. You can find many spare parts of old motors here such as an ashtray made from a cylinder and many others hung on the wall like rims or carburetors. You can also hear interesting stories about old-fashioned motorcycles at Ride Coffee and you can be invited to join the group to start interesting journeys across the country if you want. If you like more animate and up-to-date places, you should visit Panorama Cafe on top of the 33-storey Saigon Trade Center in the center of District 1 where you can drink coffee while having the full view of ?the Pearl of the Far-East?.
Due to the stylish standards, the prices at these coffee shops are not cheap. The average price of a drink is from VND25-100,000. Most of them serve light meals or office lunch and you have to pay VND50-100,000 more to be served. At coffee bars where music or drama programs are performed, you will have an extra pay apart from your dinks, depending on the popularity of the actors or singers invited. In return, you can enjoy a fantastic coffee space with selected music, delicious food and drink, polite serving attitude and particularly, there is free wifi for customers to enter websites.
Like its literal sense, ?Take away? coffee is the cup of coffee you buy and take it with you. It has many different favors and the main consumers of this variety are teenagers. This European style coffee was introduced into Saigon since 2004 and is booming with many attractive brand names such as Passio Caf?, Effoc, Urban station, Sidewalk and Comix. The most interesting thing about ?Take away? coffee is its ?soft? price, only from VND15-25,000 per cup.
?Bet Coffee? which means coffee on the flat ground receives enthusiastic supports from the pupils and students thanks to its shocking prices: from VND5-10,000 per cup. They often sit on green grass drinking coffee while breathing the fresh air and listening to the birds chattering. Similar to ?Bet Coffee? is pavement coffee, where sellers will hand you a plastic chair to sit and enjoy your coffee next to the wall. However, sometimes you may be bothered by local policemen if selling coffee on pavements is not allowed there. Prices of pavement coffee is as cheap as Bet Coffee.
And ?Hugging Coffee?
Saigon ?Hugging Coffeehouses? is popular in Tan Phu District, District 8 and District 11. A clear sign to identify hugging coffeehouses is that there is always darkness inside and they are often decorated with ornamental plants. Of course, hugging coffee is for gentlemen only. Stepping inside these coffeehouses, aside from coffee prices (VND25-30,000 per cup), customers also have to pay VND100,000 for a turn of being hugged. Waitresses are young beautiful girls wearing bikinis and their missions include talking with customers and pleasing them with various ?strange actions?. The VND100,000 hugging fee is divided in 40 (owners)-60 percent share (waitresses). Hugging Coffee is regarded as a shadow over a bright picture of Saigon coffee and needs to be eradicated./.
By Dong Dao
Source: http://talkvietnam.com/2012/12/saigon-coffees-diversity/
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