Cà Phê Muối (Salt Coffee)
Also salt coffee, Hue salt coffee
Huế's salt coffee: strong phin coffee topped with a salted sweet cream. The salt rounds off bitterness and became a nationwide trend.
RegionalServed coldFrom Vietnam
- Volume
- 190ml6.4 US fl oz
- Espresso
- 0shots
- Caffeine
- 48mgderived, USDA FDC
- Glass
- Highball250 ml
The build
Watch it made, step by step- Phin coffee60 ml32%
- salted fermented-milk or…50 ml26%
- Ice80 ml42%
- Volume
- 190ml
- Caffeine
- 48mg
- Espresso
- 0shots
Scales every component together, so the ratio holds; caffeine scales with the coffee.
Strong coffee under a salted sweet cream foam; the salt tempers bitterness and heightens sweetness.
Caffeine
Derivedin a 190 ml cà phê muối (salt coffee)
USDA FoodData Central SR Legacy caffeine per 100 g scaled to the coffee volume in components, assuming 1 g per ml. FDC 171890 (Beverages, coffee, brewed, prepared with tap water) 40.0 mg/100 g x 60 ml x 2.0.
USDA FoodData Central record 171890 · read 2026-10-26
A derived figure: the reference food's caffeine per 100 g scaled to the coffee in this build. Real cups vary with the coffee, the dose and the shot.
Variants by country
No regional variants recorded.
History
Popular accountWikidata describes salt coffee as a coffee preparation with coffee and table salt. The Huế café origin in 2010 is a popular account.
Huế, Vietnam.
Parts of this story are repeated widely but were not confirmed against a source this atlas accepts. They are kept as the story people tell, not as fact.
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