Lam Coffee & Tea - Weasel Specialty 74 Hang Gai

hanoi takes coffee seriously in a way that can catch you off guard if you're arriving from somewhere with a more casual relationship to the cup. the city has its own vernacular, egg coffee, drip filters balanced on glass rims, condensed milk stirred slow, and that vernacular runs deep on hàng gai, a street in the old quarter of hoàn kiếm that has been selling things worth stopping for since long before specialty coffee existed as a category. lam coffee & tea sits at number 74 on that street, and the people who return here regularly do so with real conviction. the shop carries weasel coffee, a distinct vietnamese tradition with its own processing logic, which gives you a concrete reason to be here rather than anywhere else on the block.