On Mon, 14 Jan 2008 16:49:25 +0000, Lazarus Cooke
wrote:

In article ,
wrote:

a lot of Viet restaurants and the interesting part is that IME, they
exclusively use Creole coffee and chicory (typically CDM/Cafe Du Monde -
the brand of the primary beignet place in the French Quarter) in their
iced coffees.

presumably the same influence - French - but in their case spreading
eastwards, rather than westwards?

I think the primary New Orleans influences are European and African, but
IAC, I think the Viet use of Creole-style coffee is more a simple matter
of taste preference. Chicory coffee (Creole-style) is common down here
and many cultures drink it, so the fact that they found it is hardly
special. What I find interesting is that they took to it almost
completely - in fact, I've never had iced coffee in a Viet establishment
or home anywhere from Texas to Florida that wasn't made with
Creole-style chicory coffee, yet Viet coffee (IOW, coffee from and/or
sold in Viet Nam) isn't really blended with chicory or much like the
Creole coffee.

TC,
R

Lazarus