Ho Chi Minh City: Egg Coffee Workshop & Tasting Experience

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Duration1h 30m

GroupUp to 18

LanguagesEN · VI

Mobile ticketAccepted

Vietnamese egg coffee hands-on class with stories and tasting in Saigon

You’ll whip up your own Vietnamese egg coffee in Ho Chi Minh City with help from a local guide, learning each step from brewing phin coffee to beating eggs into creamy foam. Taste raw blossom honey and snack on cocoa cashews while hearing stories about Saigon’s café culture. Expect laughter, sticky fingers, and a new respect for slow mornings.

1h 30m

Step-by-step itinerary

Vietnamese egg coffee workshop experience

Arrive at Lacàph Coffee Experiences Space
Learn to craft perfect phin coffee
Whip luscious egg cream topping
Sip coffee with Raw Coffee Blossom Honey
Hear stories of Vietnamese coffee culture
Taste cocoa-coated cashews dessert

The Experience

Someone’s whisking eggs so fast I can hear the soft slap of metal on ceramic before I even sit down. There’s a sweet, almost floral smell drifting through Lacàph’s coffee space — not just coffee, but something richer, like honey warming up. Our guide, Linh, grins and hands me a tiny phin filter (I’d never seen one up close), then shows us how to pack it with their special blend. She says the trick is patience; Vietnamese coffee isn’t rushed. I try to copy her steady pour, but my stream goes sideways and she laughs, fixes it for me — “No worries, first time is always messy.”

I didn’t expect the egg part to be so…delicate? We crack yolks into a bowl and beat them with sugar until they turn pale and thick. Linh adds a spoonful of raw coffee blossom honey — she lets us taste it straight from the jar, which feels like cheating dessert before breakfast. When we finally layer the whipped egg over our coffee, it sits like golden foam on dark liquid. The first sip is wild: warm, silky, somehow both sweet and strong at once. The room gets quiet for a second as everyone tries theirs; someone says it tastes like tiramisu if tiramisu had caffeine.

There are cocoa-coated cashews too (I ate mine too fast), and Linh tells us how egg coffee started in Hanoi when milk was hard to find. She talks about how people would gather in old cafés after rainstorms — I can almost picture it, that steamy air outside and the clink of cups inside. The whole thing lasts about an hour or so but feels slower in a good way. By the end my fingers are sticky from honey and I’m already thinking about trying this at home (though probably making a mess). Still think about that first sip sometimes.

What’s included

Your morning includes all ingredients and equipment for making Vietnamese egg coffee at Lacàph Coffee Experiences Space in Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), plus snacks like cocoa-coated cashews. A friendly local guide leads you through each step, shares stories about Vietnam’s café culture, and you don’t need to bring anything except yourself—everything else is covered.

Good to know

Pets welcomePublic transport nearbyNot for pregnant travelersNot for heart conditions

Operated by Lacàph Coffee Experiences