As a tropical country, Vietnam offers various beverages in any season, rain or shine, which are unique and hard to find elsewhere. Many drinks carry a deep culture that makes you love them.
Let’s study 9 popular drinks in Vietnam in the details below!
1. Green tea
The tea trees are popularly grown in the north of Vietnam, centrally in Thai Nguyen, so the tea has become a well-liked drink throughout the country.
The tea trees are popularly grown in the north of Vietnam, centrally in Thai Nguyen, so the tea has become a well-liked drink throughout the country.
Drinking green tea is popular in Vietnam. ©Vietnamdrive
Green tea is an integral part of life and is present at the start of most conversations. You will be invited for a cup of tea if you can visit a Vietnamese family during your journey here.
Even at a coffee shop, you can get a free cup of tea, which you think is beer because the color is very similar to the beer color.
Drinking tea in Vietnam is a time to relax and rest. So, it is drunk slowly to enjoy the taste, except for iced tea.
Many tea shops have upgraded green tea from a daily drink to an art of enjoyment. In addition to green tea, many other kinds are served, such as lotus tea, herbal tea, and jasmine tea.
Tea customers are usually older adults who want to slow down their lives because of the unhurried way they enjoy it and its taste, which clings to nostalgic thoughts.
The local people often sell green tea in packages, and each package costs 20,000 VND to 120,000 VND, depending on the quality of the tea. However, a few kinds of tea can surprise you when their cost is over 1,500,000 VND/500 grams.
2. Coffee
The second most popular drink is coffee. Coming to Vietnam, the second largest coffee exporter in the world, you will have a perfect chance to try various coffee versions under the constant creativity of the locals, such as egg coffee, salted coffee, and coconut coffee.
With the basalt-red soil of the Central Highlands, this region has become the capital of growing robusta coffee. The coffee produced here supplies for domestic and international markets. Thus, in most small stalls or supermarkets in Vietnam, you can find various coffee beans and powders from this land.
Many people often sip a coffee cup every morning before going to work or interacting with friends.
Do not rush, and do not drink it like in other parts of the world. In Vietnam, most people drink coffee in sips, slowly, and relaxed. Even with takeaway coffee, drinkers don’t try it all at once. Therefore, many bring it to offices and slowly enjoy it while working.
Previously, only males drank Vietnamese coffee, but now both genders taste this beverage. However, more men still use it than women.
A cup of coffee is reasonable: 15,000 VND in a small shop, 25,000 VND to 50,000 VND in a luxury place.
If you want to buy coffee beans to take home after traveling in Vietnam, the price is 80,000 VND and over per 500 grams.
3. Beer
Beer is everywhere in Vietnam, from the countryside to the city, from sidewalk stalls to luxury restaurants.
In the past, Bia Hoi – draft beer – was a typical one of the locals, handcrafted at a low cost. Nowadays, bottled and canned beers of many prominent beer brands in Vietnam are opening scale here. Thus, Bia Hoi is only found in a few places, mainly in Hanoi, especially Ta Hien Street.
If coffee is drunk in the morning, beer is for the late afternoon after work when staying with friends or socializing with business partners. Beer also appears at parties, such as weddings, housewarmings, grand openings, etc.
With a different habit of drinking beer, when someone invites you to drink, you almost finish the glass – bottom-up! Not just one or two bottles or cans at a time, but a person can finish between 5 and 10 units. This habit contributes to putting Vietnam in the top 10 beer-consuming countries in the world, at 3.8 million liters by 2022.
Of course, beer is an alcoholic beverage, so the consumption majority is male, in the group of young and middle-aged people.
Beer in Vietnam is cheap, so it is also one of the factors contributing to more beer drinking here. The average price of a can is only 15,000 VND. If you drink it at a well-served restaurant, it will cost from 20,000 VND to 25,000 VND.
4. Vietnamese yogurt
Not the home of milk, but Vietnam is famous for its yogurt, a unique drink fermented from sweetened condensed milk. Many housewives make yogurt at home, but you can buy it in stores with a different taste.
Yogurt contributes to digestion and provides various vitamins for good health. Many children and ladies like to try it when it is cool or frozen, after or between meals as snacks.
Yogurt in small plastic bags is usually eaten directly. The canned yogurts of big companies are often mixed with ice, adding fruits according to preferences, such as mango and strawberry, which has become a tasty drink for children and adults.
A box of yogurt costs under 10,000 VND. You can easily find it in grocery stores in Vietnam. However, we recommend buying it in supermarkets with better storage capacity.
After being processed in the cafe, a yogurt glass costs from 25,000 VND to 60,000 VND.
5. Fruit juice
You can find various fruits in Vietnam almost all year round because the country is located in a tropical region. When fruit season comes, the farmers can’t sell them all, so they process them into juice to drink.
Thanks to various flavors, fruit juices have quickly gained popularity nationwide and are now a famous daily nutritious drink.
Many fruit juice shops have emerged to serve the significant demand in the neighborhoods, and you can even order a glass of refreshing juice in a few cafes.
Various fruit juices, such as mango, pineapple, guava, and watermelon juice, are added with sugar and ice to serve. A glass of cold fruit juice is great for hot days in Vietnam. Let’s try one!
The price is suitable for most people’s needs: It is only 15,000 VND or 20,000 VND per glass to take away, depending on the type of fruit. The price can be higher if you drink in the on-site service shops.
6. Sugarcane juice
Along the streets or in the local markets in Vietnam, you occasionally notice a wheeled cart and a bunch of sugar cane nearby, which serves fresh sugar cane juice.
Juice from sugarcane is poured into an ice glass, which is good for those who work hard, need rehydration and energy, or want to be refreshed in hot weather. Sugarcane juice has a mild, sweet taste that is easy for most people to consume.
Usually, people buy sugarcane juice to take away and rarely sit back because they drink it quickly to quench their thirst.
A sugarcane juice glass will have a straw to enjoy this beverage immediately. However, most of the ice for this juice comes from ordinary tap water, so be mindful of this.
Sugarcane juice has a natural aroma, so children and adults love this drink. Additionally, the price is so affordable, only 10,000 VND a glass.
7. Fresh coconut water
Coconut trees grow wildly in Central and Southern Vietnam, especially in the Mekong Delta. Since then, coconuts have been carried around the country to fulfill users’ needs. Among them, young coconut water, also known as fresh coconut juice, has become familiar.
Coconut water is a refreshing beverage that supplements energy and nutrition. People often drink it in the morning, noon, and afternoon, but they do not drink it in the evening.
It is simple to taste this drink: just cut a part of coconut fruit and use a straw to enjoy this tasty beverage right away. Another way is that many people can take coconut juice in a glass and add sugar and ice to cool it down before tasting it.
Almost anyone can drink fresh coconut water. However, when working or jogging with a lot of sweat, coconut water may not be suitable because it can cause fatigue.
A coconut costs 20,000 VND at sidewalk shops. However, because of the serving fee, its price can be much higher, at 40,000 VND, in restaurants.
8. Vietnamese rice wine
Rice is the main crop in Vietnam, which is an agricultural country. Vietnamese farmers have created many products from this seed, including rice wine fermented from white rice with yeast. Rice wine is a strong alcoholic beverage but imbued with indigenous culture.
In the past, rice wine often appeared at parties. However, with the vigorous development of breweries, this wine has gradually had fewer users. Despite that, rice wine still plays a vital role in worshiping ceremonies, weddings, and New Year’s Days compared to other offerings.
Rice wine can be preserved in porcelain or glass bottles for long periods. When drinking it, people pour it into small crockery or porcelain glasses. A person drinks a whole small glass like that at once.
Because of the high alcohol content in rice wine, only people over 18 years old can drink it. Currently, Vietnam has restrictions on the production and sale of rice wine. Besides, many consumers are no longer passionate about it, so it isn’t easy to find a place to produce rice wine in the big cities in Vietnam.
A liter of good rice wine is quite expensive because it is cooked manually. Depending on the quality of the rice and yeast used, it can cost 100,000 VND and over. The price of sticky rice wine can be much higher, around 250,000 VND.
9. Ginger tea
You are probably familiar with ginger tea. But when you enjoy it in Vietnam, specifically in cafes, you will find a complete difference.
Vietnamese ginger tea contains a variety of ingredients. Besides ginger, there are oranges, lemons, licorice, salt, salted plum, and sugar or honey. Lots of things, right?
When drinking ginger tea, you put all ingredients in a glass, mix well and enjoy. Of course, it’s a cup of hot ginger tea, so you can’t and shouldn’t drink it once, but sip it slowly.
A few shops sometimes serve cold ginger tea with ice, but Vietnamdrive does not recommend drinking it cold. Hot ginger tea is better.
Many people choose ginger tea to drink after meals, in the early morning, in the evening, and in winter when the weather is cold. Plenty of guests order a cup of ginger tea instead of coffee when they chat with friends at cafes.
A cup of ginger tea in Vietnam costs from 25,000 VND to 40,000 VND, depending on different cafes.
With thousands of drinks in Vietnam, Vietnamdrive only selects typical beverages to introduce to you. We choose them according to the criteria of popularity and culture.
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