Origin Coi Nguon Coffeehouse

Origin Coi Nguon Coffeehouse (Cội Nguồn: Origin) is a traditional Vietnamese coffeehouse on North Oak Trafficway at NE 77th Street in the Northland — Kansas City’s second Vietnamese coffee shop after Cafe Cà Phê and its first built to feel “almost identical” to a café in Saigon. Owner Nhung Hoang, who was born in Đà Nẵng and came to Kansas City at eight, opened it on June 1, 2025 in memory of her brother Timothy; there is no espresso machine, only phin filters and Vietnamese Robusta beans, and every barista speaks Vietnamese. Salted coffee, egg coffee, cà phê sữa đá, pandan milk and an avocado smoothie under handmade lanterns and a lạc-bird mural.

Description

The shop fronts North Oak with a big window — “so much natural light, it should be a crime,” per MIKC Explore — two fabric benches at the front, a sleek black bar with stools, small wooden tables along the left wall, a wall of art for sale, plants, and a framed menu; “vibrant, colorful lanterns adorn the ceiling, with a gorgeous mural along the wall.”¹ The Star, visiting before the opening, described bamboo tables handcrafted in Vietnam, glowing lanterns (“you should see the place at night,” Hoang said) and an interior mural of a lạc bird, the mythical origin of the Vietnamese people; the goal was a space “almost identical” to a traditional Vietnamese coffee shop.² Catcall adds the colorful Hội An lanterns and décor and art sourced from Vietnam, and lists the shop as first-generation-immigrant and woman-owned with a gender-neutral bathroom.³

The coffee is the point. Origin brews only Vietnamese Robusta — roughly double the caffeine of Arabica, “dark, chocolatey” — through a four-chamber phin filter rather than an espresso pull or drip; because phin brewing is slow, the shop keeps phin cycles running rather than brewing each cup to order.⁴⁵ Hoang buys her beans through River Phin Coffee, a California roaster that sources directly from small farms in Asia, and hopes eventually to source from relatives’ coffee farms in Vietnam.⁴ The menu runs to salted coffee with a salty-sweet cold foam (KC Magazine’s Tyler Shane: “tastes like salted caramel in liquid form”), egg coffee, classic cà phê sữa đá with sweetened condensed milk, a Pandan Cà Phê made with pandan milk, an avocado smoothie, an iced lime drink, a strawberry matcha latte made with strawberry compote, and Vietnamese pastries such as egg tarts and custard buns; there are no syrup lattes.²⁴¹ The Cà Phê Timmy — black coffee with salted foam — was her brother’s favorite drink.²³

Ownership and history

Nhung Hoang was born in Đà Nẵng in central Vietnam and immigrated with her family in 2012, at about eight years old; her parents had owned coffee shops in Đà Nẵng, and other relatives own coffee farms.⁵²⁴ She spent nearly a decade as a barista in Kansas City coffee shops and for years supplied Vietnamese coffee drinks to friends and family and then to customers at pop-ups, while studying computer science.⁴⁵

Her oldest brother, Timothy (“Tim”), encouraged her to pause school and see where the coffee business could go; a few months later, in 2023, he died of an unexpected heart attack at 30. Hoang has been explicit that immigration-related stress and the isolation of being “a bridge to our community for our family” played a role, and that the shop exists partly to be a third space for immigrants: “People can come in, speak Vietnamese, and feel like they’re a part of something. Maybe we can help take 50% of the burden off of the Tim’s out there.”⁵² The two-part name was Tim’s idea: Cội is “origin,” Nguồn is “root” or “source” — a nod to the two names many immigrants carry.⁵ Hoang is friends with Jackie Nguyen of Cafe Cà Phê in Columbus Park, which she calls “the future” of Vietnamese coffee in America; Origin was conceived to honor the past.²

The shop soft-opened in late May 2025 with 9 a.m.–2 p.m. hours and celebrated its grand opening, with the full menu, on June 1, 2025.²⁵ KC Magazine profiled it that August, MIKC Explore in November, and both KC Magazine (in a January 2026 essay on the city’s Vietnamese food boom, which credits Café Cà Phê with building the appetite Origin now serves) and Catcall (January 2026, naming it “the newest shop” among the city’s queer-inclusive coffeehouses) listed it as open in the new year.⁴¹⁶³

Links

• Instagram (primary): https://www.instagram.com/origin_coinguon/
• Third-party listing (hours/phone): https://joe.coffee/locations/mo/kansas-city/origin-coi-nguon-coffeehouse-kansas-city/

Menu

Status: unverified. No first-party menu is published outside Instagram; the drinks named above are as reported by The Kansas City Star, Kansas City Magazine, MIKC Explore and Catcall, without prices.²⁴¹³

Sources

Footnotes

1. Meredith Schneider, “Drinking Coffee in Kansas City: Origin Coi Nguon Coffeehouse,” MIKC Explore, 2025-11-06 — Confirms: location on the east side of North Oak at NE 77th Street; interior description (benches, bar with stools, lanterns, mural, art wall, tables); Strawberry Matcha Latte with strawberry compote; Salt Coffee; macarons, cake pops and bottled drinks for sale. ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴

2. “A coffee shop ‘almost identical’ to one in Vietnam is opening in Kansas City,” The Kansas City Star, May 2025 (syndicated via Yahoo). Retrieved 2026-08-28 — Confirms: soft opening 9–2 Saturday–Thursday; grand opening June 1, 2025 with full menu including egg tarts and custard buns; lanterns, bamboo tables, lạc-bird mural; Hoang age 23, moved to the U.S. at eight; brother Timothy died two years earlier at 30; Robusta beans and phin demonstration; friendship with Jackie Nguyen of Cafe Cà Phê; Salted Cà Phê, Pandan Cà Phê, avocado smoothie, iced lime; barista Kenny Nguyen; Cà Phê Timmy. ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷ ↩⁸

3. Shelby Faulkner, “Kansas City’s queer-inclusive coffee shops,” Catcall, 2026-01-03 — Confirms: address 7711 N Oak Trafficway Suite A; “first-generation Vietnamese immigrant and woman-owned”; gender-neutral bathroom; opened June 1, 2025; Robusta shipped from Vietnam; Hội An lanterns and Vietnamese décor; “The Timmy” with salt foam and brown sugar. ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴

4. Tyler Shane, “Coffee Culture,” Kansas City Magazine, 2025-08-09 — Confirms: second Vietnamese coffeehouse in KC after Cafe Cà Phê; opened end of May 2025; owner Nhung Hoang; parents from Đà Nẵng owned coffee shops; nearly a decade as a barista; family coffee farms; River Phin Coffee partnership; Robusta only; Salted Saigon; four-chamber phin; quotes. ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷

5. Sarah Sipple, “Nhung Hoang champions the immigrant experience at Cội Nguồn: Origin Coffee,” The Pitch, 2025-05-30 — Confirms: owner Nhung Hoang; born Đà Nẵng, immigrated 2012; brother Timothy’s death in 2023 and his role in the business; computer-science studies paused; years of pop-ups; grand opening June 1; no espresso machine, phin brewing; salted coffee, egg coffee, cà phê sữa đá; furniture and décor from Vietnam; name meaning; address 7711 N Oak Trafficway Suite A, 64118. ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶

6. Tyler Shane, “From Pho to Coffee, Vietnamese Cuisine Is Spreading Across KC,” Kansas City Magazine, 2026-01-09 — Confirms: Origin Coi Nguon “a proudly Vietnamese coffeehouse off North Oak Trafficway pouring brews made with dark, chocolatey Robusta beans, occasionally topped with a pinch of salt”; follows Café Cà Phê (2020) as the city’s Vietnamese coffee shops; active January 2026. ↩