Vietnamese phrase

How to say “Egg in tea broth sweet soup” in Vietnamese

Egg in tea broth sweet soup” in Vietnamese is

Chè hột gà trà

Hear it in both accents

Vietnamese sounds noticeably different north to south. Both are recorded so you can match wherever you are.

Northern

Hanoi and the north

Southern

Saigon and the south

Used in a sentence

Cho tôi một ly chè hột gà trà ít đá nhé.

I'll have a glass of egg in tea broth sweet soup with less ice, please.

Northern

Hanoi and the north

Southern

Saigon and the south

Worth knowing

Word by word: Chè (sweet soup) + hột gà (chicken egg) + trà (tea)

North vs south: 'Hột gà' is the Southern term for egg; in the North, people usually say 'trứng gà'.

When you would use it

This line comes from the Sweet Soup Order situation pack in XinChao (Survival) — the moments you actually run into in Việt Nam, not textbook drills.

See the survival packs

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