1. Hidden Gem Coffee, Hanoi, Vietnam
Established as a recycled café, Hidden Gem Coffee is a quaint and eco-friendly café everyone should try while in the Hanoi Old Quarter. The owners want to inspire customers with the awareness on ‘reducing, reusing & recycling’ waste in every place they visit. Once walked into Hidden Gem Coffee, you’ll feel a whimsical and anime-esque Technicolor experience. From the entrance door, the wall paintings, the sculptures to the furniture, all contribute to this one-of-a-kind café.
Hidden Gem Coffee is one of the rare eco-friendly coffee shops in Southeast Asia using recycled materials for everything. The café serves unique, authentic, and remarkable Hanoian coffee, drinks, and food. You must try coconut coffee in summer or egg coffee on winter days. This is also a tranquil place to work or just let your hair down in the incredible atmosphere.
2. Green Light Café and Bar, Koh Samui, Thailand
Green Light Café and Bar lies at the top eco-friendly vegetarian and vegan restaurants in Koh Samui, where you’ll find a wide selection of healthy and gluten-free dishes made from local organic ingredients including many grown in the on-site garden. Even the staff members can show you around by a garden tour to see how the vegetables are raised.
At Green Light, you’ll immerse in a cozy and forward-thinking space where the locals and tourists can gather and share ideas. Developing as a community, Green Light Café and Bar focus on the main goals as social responsibility, self-sufficiency, and reduction of their carbon footprint.
3. Maison Marou, Sai Gon/ Hanoi, Vietnam
Maison Marou is a perfect place to find the authentic taste of Vietnamese chocolate. Maison’s business has created their own manufacture which controls everything, from the beans they select at the locally green source to the bars they sell in chocolate shops. Marou’s chocolate has a specific complexity and variability offering unusual aromas of the best chocolate than ever.
Maison Marou is a fantastic eco-friendly chocolate café that you can’t find anywhere in Southeast Asia. In addition to the unique savory of food and drinks, Maison Marou offers green delivery by providing biodegradable wrapping or plastic-free delivery; green kitchen by reducing single-use plastic as well as managing waste and disposable food. If you say no to plastic straws, plastic bags, and plastic bottles, Maison Marou is a good choice because of eliminated plastic straws in dine-in and take-out. There’re two branches of Maison Marou in Saigon and Hanoi that you can experience a distinctive eco-friendly café in Southeast Asia.
4. Highlands Coffee, Vietnam
Highlands Coffee has developed as the most successful coffee shop chain and distributor of coffee products in Vietnam. Established in 1998, Highlands Coffee has operated nearly 100 coffee shops in six large cities and provinces across Vietnam until now.
Along with the various choices of coffee and drinks, Highland Coffee attracts numerous customers to its eco-friendly campaigns. Every customer bringing their own bottle or cup to the coffee shop will have a chance to upsize the ordered drinks. It’s good to see that there is an increasing number of people who reckon their responsibility for environmentally friendly behaviors.
5. Foreword Coffee, Singapore
If you’re seeking a variety of freshly roasted Asian coffee beans or purchase eco-friendly reusable items, Foreword Coffee is a great destination. The coffee shop has been promoted sustainable consumption and raised awareness on an environmentally friendly stance. All drinks of Foreword Coffee are served without straws, but the shop does give paper straws upon request.
Besides, Foreword Coffee offers customers who bring their own cups a 10% discount on drinks. And if you want to become a reusable straw convert, the café also sells metal straws in Stainless Steel and Rose Gold at stores. So, coming to Foreword Coffee, you’ll support the earth-saving and reduce carbon footprint during your eco-friendly vacation in Southeast Asia.
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