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"Là Việt Coffee is one of the key players in the modern coffee scene. Moving away from the robusta beans traditionally found around town, husband-and-wife founders Trần Nhật Quang and Nguyen Thi Nhu Ngoc opted to focus on arabica beans grown, harvested, and roasted at their farm in Da Lat. Their experimentation has resulted in some truly unique coffee drinks, such as the specialty margarita coffee mocktail made with lime, sugar syrup, and cold brew, complete with salt rim. The couple is always pushing the boundaries of Vietnamese coffee while respecting the established coffee culture; they even took 14 months to develop a new brewing tool that combines a drip attachment good for their arabica beans with the form of a familiar phin filter." - Linh Phan