Where To Find The Best Coffee In Trang

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BEST COFFEE IN TRANG

BY TREMOR CHRIST

Spending a few days in the devils oven is hard on even the most seasoned Asiaphile, but what Trang demands in endurance, it makes up for in food and caffeine offerings. The downtown area has enough solid places for you to easily spend a long weekend satisfying your cravings, should you stay longer then just widen your movements a tad and incorporate some bike rides with Grab to hit the other coffee shops around.

You won't be competing with Bangkok or Chiang Mai in terms of exotic beans, pourover options, endless varieties and deep diving divinations, you will however discover just the right amount of passionate and knowledgable people brewing beans to widen your eyes and wake your palette to the food feasts that lay about you.

Read our food guide to Trang here.

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HAWKEN COFFEE BREWERS

Our favourite place in Trang for your slightly more specialised coffee offerings. Run by a lovely couple in an old charming building, this is stop number 1 on your Trang caffeine trails.

SI ESPERANZA

Famous for their solid coffee and their flair for latte art, conveniently located a stones throw from the train station, this may be your go-to cafe if you are hopping in or out of town.

OCCUR

Bowls and brews can be fawned over in this brick and iron cafe situated a bit out of the towns reach. Their espresso are prepared well on the uber cool Modbar, and it's one of the few places in town you can get a pourover coffee.

LA'-OONG COFFEE

Located behind the petrol station and glued to the best Khao soi restaurant in town (same owner, from Chiang Mai), this tiny cafe is the best place in Trang to sip a coffee and relax in the retro vibes.

MOVE

Exploring places for longer than a weekend will often throw up some jewels, MOVE being one of them. Housed in a residential area, the slow pace of life seems undisturbed even after the effects of caffeine have been administered. Come by for a chat with the charming baristas, stroke the cat, and then walk down for some coconut ice-cream around the corner afterwards.

KO JANG

Not a coffee shop, but worthy of being included since this place is the stuff of local legends. Every person we asked during our one months stay would refer to the owner as: "Crazy", "Rockstar", "TingTong", you get the picture.

This tea shack is the home of a conjurer of epic proportions, who meticulously balances sweetness, acidity, tannins, tartness and spice in his home laboratory. The tricky part is catching him, as he has been known to shut up shop for weeks at a time, only bother to open a window and sell through that, refuse to open at all, and then suddenly go on a two week bender being open from morning till night.

This is a man you want to catch, and a tea you want to taste.

KHAO CHONG

The coffee is rocket fuel distilled in a cotton sock, but the vibes are eternal and you'll want to pay homage to this retro cafe if you're in town for a few days.