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Dark phin coffee under a cap of lightly salted whipped cream — the Central Vietnamese speciality where the bitterness turns sweet the moment the two layers meet. Stamped a bestseller on the board.

The house Americano built with coconut — the one drink on this board wearing a Best Choice tag instead of the red bestseller stamp.

Saigon's milk-first coffee: mostly condensed milk with just enough phin coffee stirred through to colour it. The gentlest cup on the coffee list.

One price, your choice of temperature — the same cacao served over ice or steaming.

House yogurt over ice with translucent, springy đác — the sugar-palm seed Khánh Hòa is known for — and a wedge of lime on the rim. The red stamp on the board marks it the bestseller.

Both toppings at once — ribbons of ripe jackfruit and chewy sugar-palm seed over the same chilled yogurt. The fullest glass on the yogurt list.

Pink grapefruit against steeped apricot — a bitter edge, a sweet centre, and one of the two teas the board stamps bestseller.

Fresh tangerine squeezed into apricot-steeped tea — the citrus half of the board's two bestselling teas.

Lime juice with a salted preserved plum dropped in — sour, salty and sweet at once, the classic Vietnamese thirst-killer. Stamped a bestseller.

One row, three juices, one price — pick guava, tomato or carrot, pressed to order.

The citrus-and-pineapple row: choose one of the three, same price, squeezed fresh.

The sấu fruit steeped in sugar and let down with iced water — sharply sour, a Hanoi summer standard, and the busiest of the three steeping jars here. Bestseller stamp on the board.

The same jar method with apricot — softer and sweeter than the sấu, and the base that turns up inside three of the teas on this board.

Artichoke steeped and served cold — earthy and barely sweet, the herbal one on a board otherwise full of fruit.