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.
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.
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.
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