In 1993, when Saigon had no Huế restaurant in a proper dining room, Tib and Jap's mother opened this house at this exact address — and named it after her first daughter: Tib. The restaurant sits in the old mansion of a Saigon family of the old days, at the end of an alley off Hai Ba Trung.
“The dishes we grew up on — cooked fresh on the spot, every day.”
The sisters' uncle is songwriter Trịnh Công Sơn — his music plays in the dining room. On the whitewashed walls hang the Hoang family's black-and-white photographs and old Huế paintings. Their parents, now in their 80s, are still here most nights — mother in the kitchen, father at his usual table, tasting every dish.
Sisters Tib and Jap took over and kept every recipe — cooked fresh on the spot, never reheated. The guest book carries US President George W. Bush and Australian PM John Howard; in July 2026 HTV7 featured Tib on 'Happy Restaurant'. The house holds a 2025 Travellers' Choice award.
