Vietnamese Iced Coffee (Ca Phe Sua Da): The Real Recipe and How to Get the Phin Right
Vietnamese iced coffee isn’t just coffee poured over ice. It’s a specific drink with a specific method: strong, dark-roast coffee, slow-dripped through a small metal filter called a phin, mixed with sweetened condensed milk instead of sugar and cream, then poured over ice. Skip any one of those steps, coffee, condensed milk, or the phin, and you get something that tastes like iced coffee, not …