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Nearly forty years on Lê Lợi

The shop's own words, and what its photos show.

Nearly forty years

The shop's own words say it has operated for nearly forty years, kept going by customer trust and love — from elders to small children, in hot sun or rain — for a cool, fragrant, rich ice cream.

The memory spice

The owner credits a special recipe with an exclusive ingredient, called "gia vị kỷ niệm" — the memory spice. New dishes are coming, the owner says.

One open room

An open front on Lê Lợi, cane chairs, light-wood and white tables, orange trim at the storefront. No full interior wide shot exists — the room is known in fragments: a table, a chair, a serve.

Daylight, then evening

Open 08:00–23:00, every day. Bright daylight serves first; in the evening the room fills and the light turns warm. The shop has two lives, and both are on the table.

The shop in nine photos

Leaf-shaped bowl with four scoops, cream, and a paper umbrella — Four scoops, one leaf dish — yellow, green, pink, and cream.

Customer eating inside, cane chairs and open front — Inside: cane chairs, wooden tables, the street's daylight.

Kem dừa in a whole young coconut shell with fruit and cream — Kem dừa — the whole shell, scoops, watermelon, dragon fruit, cream.

Tall fluted-glass sundae with layered scoops and fruit — The tall glass — layered scoops, watermelon, dragon fruit, cream.

Coconut and tall glass together on a white table — A pair's table: one coconut, one tall glass.

Coconut close-up on a wooden table with a water glass — Close up: the shell, the spoon, the water glass beside it.

Hand holding a coconut against the Lê Lợi sidewalk — The serve travels to the street — coconut in hand on Lê Lợi.

Tall glass and coconut on a white table in the evening room — Evening: warm light, a crowd at cane chairs, both serves.

Coconut close-up on a white table with spoon — The shell again, on white — spoon beside it.

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