TL;DR: Vietnamese Coffee is just coffee with condensed milk. Try it, it's good!
Vietnamese coffee as served in restaurants looks something like this. Here is a video of the authentic way of making it, but you can make it easily in various ways without buying special equipment or Vietnamese-brand ingredients. Just brew normal coffee and add condensed milk.
You can add as little or as much condensed milk as you like, but because condensed milk is milk+sugar (in a nearly 1:1 ratio btw) with most of the water having been evaporated, you can add quite a bit without ever watering down your coffee. And it is supposed to be sweet, which coffee purists might look down upon, but which makes me actually like the drink.
At the Vietnamese restaurant where I first saw it, it comes with a glass filled with ice, so I assume it is also common to pour it over the ice and drink it as iced coffee. When chilled, it tastes to me like those bottled Starbucks Frappuccinos.
I don't even have a coffee machine and I didn't want to buy any new equipment so I use hack-ish method for a single serving where I use a pint mason jar with "bowl" of about 5+ coffee filters fixed from the top using the rim part of the typical metal lid and then I pour water over a scoop of coffee grounds held in those filters. The more filters you use the slower the water will drain and the stronger the coffee will be. And then I add condensed milk to taste, which for me is a lot. I also had this idea of pouring some cocoa powder in there for a mocha flavor but haven't tried it yet and I'm not sure if it will work.
Maybe there's something "bad" about condensed milk that I'm not aware of since its processed and canned and could have additives, but it seems like an ideal Peat food just by itself. It's like a pre-prepared super serving of milk+sugar without any water, which if you're like me, can worsen hypothyroid symptoms like general coldness and cold hands and feet.
Vietnamese coffee as served in restaurants looks something like this. Here is a video of the authentic way of making it, but you can make it easily in various ways without buying special equipment or Vietnamese-brand ingredients. Just brew normal coffee and add condensed milk.
You can add as little or as much condensed milk as you like, but because condensed milk is milk+sugar (in a nearly 1:1 ratio btw) with most of the water having been evaporated, you can add quite a bit without ever watering down your coffee. And it is supposed to be sweet, which coffee purists might look down upon, but which makes me actually like the drink.
At the Vietnamese restaurant where I first saw it, it comes with a glass filled with ice, so I assume it is also common to pour it over the ice and drink it as iced coffee. When chilled, it tastes to me like those bottled Starbucks Frappuccinos.
I don't even have a coffee machine and I didn't want to buy any new equipment so I use hack-ish method for a single serving where I use a pint mason jar with "bowl" of about 5+ coffee filters fixed from the top using the rim part of the typical metal lid and then I pour water over a scoop of coffee grounds held in those filters. The more filters you use the slower the water will drain and the stronger the coffee will be. And then I add condensed milk to taste, which for me is a lot. I also had this idea of pouring some cocoa powder in there for a mocha flavor but haven't tried it yet and I'm not sure if it will work.
Maybe there's something "bad" about condensed milk that I'm not aware of since its processed and canned and could have additives, but it seems like an ideal Peat food just by itself. It's like a pre-prepared super serving of milk+sugar without any water, which if you're like me, can worsen hypothyroid symptoms like general coldness and cold hands and feet.