Side street drinks...

Side street drinks...
By Aly Abaquin

The coconut is handsomely chiseled to a dome like figure that is sold in every side street with Lavie or bottled water.. Thirsty???? Quench it with the coconut drink.. it is freshly cold to touch and sold cheaply in very nook & cranny of HCMC...

Or take the famous Cafe Da( brewed coffee ) with its own dripping instrument....aluminum dripper ... while the cup is full of condensed milk waiting for that dark roast to fall from its chambers.... or Cafe sua Da(iced coffee with condensed milk)The darkly brewed coffee is mixed with your iced with condensed milk in the side streets..

But this coffee connoction is darkly brew and is not for everyone. Dark blend of the roasted robusta kind wherein vietnam is the third largest exporter of the green coffee. For only 10,000 vnd your afternoom "Tit for Tat" cup of coffee while siting down some lowly bench in a street corner and somethered with lively discussion of lotto numbers, lifes stories or simply the daily news is a repetitive culturally thingy in saigon every 3pm-4pm....Everyone is on Tea Party anyone... minus the cake and pastries.... Saigon interestingly fascinatingly different.
I'll take mine now.. coffee break that is....