Enjoy coffee with feet surrounded by fish

By Thanh Hoa

Colorful fish are swimming in the cool water under the chairs. Amix Coffee attracts many customers, especially on hot summer days - PHOTO: THANH HOA

While enjoying a cup of coffee and surfing the web, guests can totally relax seeing hundreds of fish swimming around their feet. The unique café, named Amix Coffee, in HCMC’s Tan Binh District has just been opened for several weeks, but it is attracting a large number of guests this summer.

The 25-square-meter café serves 200-300 guests a day, mostly youngsters who are seeking new coffee experiences and love to dunk their feet into the cool water during hot summer.

The water level inside the café is always kept 25 centimeters high. Water is continuously pumped into the filter tank to make it clean and absorb enough oxygen for the fish.

Nguyen Duoc Hoa, owner of Amix Coffee, said the café has about 200 koi fish. Located on the second floor of a house, the floor and lower parts of the walls are covered by canvas to make them waterproof.

According to Hoa, the idea to create Amix Coffee came to his mind when enduring the hot weather of HCMC. There were currently many air-conditioned coffee shops in the city, so he wanted to make something new and special.