Ban Me Coffee

Cà phê Ban Mê- Ảnh 1. — The author and friends enjoy coffee at home

During the subsidy period, I tried coffee from a sidewalk cafe a couple of times. Sidewalk cafes were places where people stopped to relax with a cup of coffee, to sip, and to absentmindedly watch people and vehicles bustling by.

In those days, drinking coffee was also very elaborate. While waiting for the aluminum filter to slowly drip each dark brown drop into the glass cup, the customer would take another cup, add a sufficient amount of sugar, and add a few drops of freshly dripped coffee. Then, using a small spoon, they would vigorously beat the sugar to create foam. Enjoying a cup of coffee that they had helped create with their own hands, suddenly felt very refreshed and interesting, especially on a morning when the streets were chilly and there was a light rain outside.

Now, Buon Ma Thuot is truly a coffee city with many coffee shops, each with its own unique style of decoration, attracting and captivating tourists, especially young people. Coming to Buon Ma Thuot, at any time you can enjoy coffee with many different brewing styles with a distinctive, rich flavor, always meeting all the needs of tourists.

It seems that in the mountain town, a new cultural beauty has been forming in the daily life here: forming associations, dating groups, inviting each other to drink coffee every morning, every afternoon and even when the night falls. What could be more fun and elegant than gathering with friends, with lovers on a weekend morning in the middle of March, the golden sunshine sprinkled over a cup of coffee shimmering like the charming skin color of Miss H'Hen Nie - the darling of the Central Highlands mountains and forests?

( Entry to the contest "Impressions of Vietnamese coffee and tea" under the program "Honoring Vietnamese coffee and tea" for the 2nd time, 2024 organized by Nguoi Lao Dong Newspaper).