Finding peace of mind at Nam Coffee
If you want to achieve peace of mind and inner calm, the Nam Coffee located at 36 Dong Da Street in Hai Chau District is an ideal venue for you.
The Nam Coffee is familiar with those who lived through the 90s. Photo: T.Y |
Thanks to its nostalgic space decorated in vintage style, the café always exudes a rustic charm, making visitors talk in a low voice so as not to disturb other people.
Inspired by the style of Vietnamese houses built in the early 90s, the coffee shop is decorated with familiar items such as a barrel salon, a sewing machine, a phonograph, a cassette player, a thermos flask, a kettle, tea cups, a black and white TV, patchy peeling walls and even photos of famous singers and artists in and out of the country.
Interweaving in the relatively small space are familiar green plants such as cloves, ornamental bananas, and betel nut. All of them exude a bit of nostalgia, holding young people's imaginations about a time our nation lived and went through.
If you try to find a minus point in Nam Coffee, it may be that the owner is too embracing in the layout of the furniture because all the walls are tight and crowded. It's more like a gallery space, a miniature library than a place just to come and enjoy a cup of coffee every day.
Unlike other nostalgic coffee shops in the city that are often suitable for middle-aged customers, more than 70% of visitors to the Nam Coffee are young people.
The shop has 2 floors, in which the first floor is designed with a mezzanine, helping customers experience many different spaces. Every sitting corner at this venue is lovely and familiar like you are in your own home. In each sitting position, there is an electric panel, convenient for guests to charge laptops and phone batteries.
In order to provide the best services for customers, a sign "What's delicious in Nam Coffee today" is placed at the counter and the list of drinks on it is constantly changed to encourage customers to experience all services.
In addition to tea, coffee and fruit juices in traditional recipe, you can choose a cup of egg coffee, salted coffee, and soaked apricot juice to enjoy with baked macaroons, salted egg cake and chocolate cookies.
In addition to the new establishment on Dong Da Street, Nam Coffee also has a previous establishment at 15/1 Le Hong Phong.
In a space filled with nostalgia, the owner asks customers not to talk or open their phones to watch movies too loudly to make noise because every space at this time is left to friends and relatives to chat, listen to music or simply sit next to each other in the important moments of life.
Reporting by TIEU YEN - Translating by M.DUNG