Bagel Bakery in Sand City, California now offers iced Vietnamese coffee and Thai iced tea to go with bagels.
I ordered a Vietnamese coffee to go with a toasted jalapeño-cheddar bagel with cream cheese this morning for breakfast.
The strong espresso in the coffee is tempered by condensed milk and Hal-and-half which tastes great iced.
I sipped the coffee on a rainy outing to Pebble Beach that made the forest and ocean look like a Japanese painting.
The Vietnamese coffee is a good addition to the menu that can make rain in Monterey not seem so bad.
By Ruth Paget, author Eating Soup with Chopsticks and Marrying France and developer of the Novgorod and Bento War Games