7/25/2023 0 Comments Folx review reddit![]() As a young and curious child, I greedily reached for the glass and quickly took a generous sip. One morning, right before he could carefully mix in the condensed milk, he was called away to the stove to help out my mom. It's a smell that transports me to the simpler times as my family sat around in communal circles, woke up with the sun and started our mornings with a lazy gait and conversation.Įight-year-old Bui, pictured here in Calgary in the early 2000s, never shook a childhood dislike for the taste of coffee. Filling the entire house, it was light, aromatic and pleasantly sweet. I was eight years old in my childhood kitchen and my father was making his usual: a black Vietnamese drip coffee from a metallic phin on top of a tall, clear glass.Ī phin is a Vietnamese crossover between a French press and a pour over and looks like a miniature tin steamer. Every morning, it was fascinating to watch the slow and steady dark drips coming from the bottom of the phin.Īfter the phin was done filtering, he then took a generous amount of sticky condensed milk in a spoon and mixed it with his black coffee, swirling the contents until it was a soft and cosy light brown coffee.īut it's the SMELL that was the peak of this coffee experience. ![]() ![]() For more information about CBC's First Person stories, please see the FAQ. This First Person article is the experience of Alyx Bui, an emerging filmmaker in Edmonton.
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