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Reconnecting with Home Through My Family's Coffee Rituals
"Even in quarantine, the slow drip of cà phê sữa đá, Vietnamese iced coffee, transports me."

Thao Thai
Aug 5, 2020

"Cà phê sữa đá smells like it tastes. It tastes like your first hesitant sip, just before hopping into your stepfather’s truck for school; like dawn in Saigon, bent over a balcony watching the elderly speed walkers loop around the park; like your favorite Viet restaurant in Uptown Chicago where they laughed at your accent; like the faraway darkness of colonialism; like your husband talking with your grandfather in your childhood kitchen. Cà phê sữa đá smells like the bittersweet curl of nostalgia. It tastes of memories that drip as slowly as coffee from a phin filter." READ MORE

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