Story
A family shop, one plate, three ceilings
A small family eatery in an alley off Cao Thắng, whose house specialty is chicken steak — answered plate by plate, under fairy lights.
Style: small alley family room under dressed ceilings, built around one plate — chicken steak, potatoes, salad, sauce of the day.
Story: a family shop whose question is its own — how is chicken steak different from beef steak? — answered plate by plate, under fairy lights.
Menu: No dishes are published — ask at the counter when you arrive for today's menu.
Hours: Sunday 10:30–22:30; Monday–Saturday 10:30–14:00 + 15:00–22:30.
The ceiling, dressed three ways
Woven fan panels strung with fairy lights over the main room, blue-painted bicycle wheels strung with fairy lights, and hanging multicolour ribbon strips under pendant lamps — three ceiling treatments in one small shop, and every camera looks up at them before it looks at a plate.
The arch into the second room
A white archway leads to a back room with the same terracotta walls, a stained-glass pendant, and a drinks fridge. The arch itself is permanent; the garlands strung across it in the photograph are seasonal dressing, not the arch.
One plate, three sauces
Every food photograph shows the same plate architecture: grilled chicken with fried potato cubes and salad of lettuce, shredded carrot, and cherry tomatoes. What changes is the sauce — golden, red garlic, or thick pale mushroom-cream. The brand's own words add ice cream and cake made fresh daily; neither is photographed as a dish, so neither is described beyond that.
The drip you watch
Vietnamese coffee phin dripping into a polka-dot glass over condensed milk — the drip, not the finished drink, is the moment. It belongs to the linger step, last, under the fairy lights.
The shop in photographs
