 |
| Tourists take photos of the coffee display at Trung Nguyen coffee shop at Nguyen Van Chiem St., District 1. - Photo: Tuong Vi |
The garden coffee shop that is on the narrow street between the Youth Cultural House and Diamond Plaza, has 100 items about coffee on display including grinders and roasting machines. The pieces are part of a collection of 10,000 items about
coffee that belongs to a German coffee lover, Jens Burg.
Burg provided part of his collection to help Trung Nguyen Corp. set up Vietnam’s first coffee museum in Buon Ma Thuot in the Central
Highlands province of Daklak, where the coffee maker harvests most of its beans.
Two billion people world-wide drink coffee, so the exhibition is bound to have appeal. The displays show where coffee was first discovered in Ethiopia and follows its history with stories of different coffee concoctions using butter, milk, herbs and wine.
The café has a large outdoor area shaded by umbrellas and trees and a large glass walled lounge that looks across the garden area. In addition to the different kinds of Trung Ngu
yen coffee, there’s a food menu that features Gia Lai dried noodles, a dish that’s loved by highlanders.
The coffee museum opening in March in Buon Ma Thuot City will be called the Global Coffee Sanctuary and cover 50 hectares. Brazil, Japan, Russia, the U.K, Australia and Switzerland already have coffee museums but the sanctuary will have the largest number of items on display.
“We have made Buon Ma Thuot into a city of coffee to build the
coffee brand for the city, for Vietnam and the world,” Dinh Van Khiet, vice chairman of People’s Committee of Daklak Province, said.
