Vietnamese cocoa

Cocoa Basics
How Cocoa Powder Is Made: From Cacao Pod to Powder
The steps from cacao pod to cocoa powder: harvesting, fermenting, drying, roasting, winnowing, grinding to liquor, pressing out the butter and milling, plus where Dutch-processing fits…
Cocoa Basics
Where Is Cocoa Grown in Vietnam? The Three Main Growing Regions
Vietnam’s cocoa grows in three regions: the Central Highlands, the Southeast and the Mekong Delta. Here are the provinces, the 2023 numbers, why the area has…
Recipes
Vietnamese Salted Coffee (Cà Phê Muối): Huế Salt Coffee Recipe
How to make cà phê muối, Huế’s salted cream coffee: the exact salt amount, why the salt goes into the condensed milk, the two mistakes that…
Recipes
Vietnamese Egg Coffee (Cà Phê Trứng): The Hanoi Recipe
How to make Vietnamese egg coffee (cà phê trứng): whip 1 egg yolk with 2 tablespoons of condensed milk until it triples, spoon it over strong…
Recipes
Vietnamese Egg Cocoa (Cacao Trứng) Recipe: Hanoi’s Yolk-Cream Hot Cocoa
How to make cacao trứng, Hanoi’s egg cocoa: a bloomed unsweetened cocoa base under a whipped yolk and condensed-milk cream, with fixes for eggy taste, egg…
Cocoa Basics
Vietnamese Cocoa: Variety, Flavor, Regions and What the Fine-Flavor Rating Means
Vietnam grows little cocoa, but the ICCO rates 80% of its exports as fine or flavor cocoa. Here is what that means, which variety grows there,…
Cocoa Basics
Types of Cacao Beans: Criollo, Forastero, Trinitario, Nacional and Vietnamese Cocoa
The main types of cacao beans, why DNA studies replaced the three-type system with ten clusters, what ICCO fine flavor means, and where Vietnamese cocoa fits.
Buying Guides
Academy of Chocolate Awards Explained: What a Medal Means for Cocoa Powder
How the Academy of Chocolate Awards work, what the Chocoa Hot Chocolate Awards are, which medals the producer of Grevista’s cocoa won, and how to verify…