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Cafe Giang

Top choice in Hanoi


The originator of Hanoi's egg coffee is still running in this time-worn family establishment, serving the best in town since 1946 at egg-sellent prices… Head upstairs and order up a superb regular egg coffee (25,000d), or varieties of egg coffee with chocolate, cinnamon, coke, rum or beer. Other non-egg coffees and teas are available. You get a plastic tab and pay downstairs.


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