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Vienna Coffee. Originally from Vienna, Austria. It was super popular in Korea for a while as a warm coffee topped with cream, but it vanished for a bit when the Americano craze hit. Then, it recently made a comeback...

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...as the 'Einspänner.' Honestly, if you go to Vienna and ask for 'Vienna Coffee,' they'll be like, 'What's that?' That name is mainly used in the US, UK, Japan, and Korea, while locals call it an Einspänner. Since the name 'Vienna Coffee' started feeling too 'old-school,' they successfully revived it by rebranding it (tag-swapping) as Einspänner, usually made with a smoother, thinner layer of cream than before.

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Café au Lait. It used to be one of the two pillars of milk-based coffee along with the Café Latte, but at some point, it became hard to find. Unlike a latte made with espresso, this uses drip coffee and milk, so the taste is milder. People started thinking, 'Why bother adding milk to drip coffee?' so shops slowly stopped carrying it. Until the mid-to-late 2000s, many cafes didn't use espresso machines so they sold a lot of this, but it became a forgotten drink once espresso machines became the standard after the Americano boom.

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Nitro Coffee. This trend exploded around 2016 and then disappeared into thin air. It’s coffee infused with nitrogen gas to create a rich foam that makes it look like beer. It was so hot for a while that everyone was making it, and it seemed like it would become a steady seller, but...

...when the nitrous oxide capsules used to make it were banned from sale, the trend died with it. Originally, small shops could make it using a whipped cream dispenser and N2O capsules instead of expensive dedicated equipment and large tanks. But since people started inhaling N2O from 'Happy Balloons' instead of using it for cooking, it became a banned substance and the drink went down with it.

Vietnamese Coffee. The kind where you put condensed milk at the bottom and drip the coffee right on top. It was a menu item mostly introduced by cafe owners who had tried it during trips to Vietnam. Its characteristic sweet condensed milk flavor was tasty, but it didn't seem to blow up that big.

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Then Starbucks suddenly revived it as the 'Dolce Latte.' Of course, it's slightly different from authentic Vietnamese coffee. A Dolce Latte is basically a cafe latte with a ton of condensed milk poured in, while Vietnamese coffee is just coffee and condensed milk. The end.