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Bittersweet — café & bakery

DOLLHOUSE · CATS · MACARONS · NTMK ALLEY

i had macarons at bittersweet

Bittersweet is a café and bakery — "Tiệm Cafe & Bánh" — in a Nguyen Thi Minh Khai alley, District 1.

From the alley: a butter-yellow dollhouse façade with a sky-blue door and window frames, hanging plants, a red post box, a chalkboard with a cat drawing.

Inside: a small room with a lit display case, red-and-white bunting, wooden chairs and a resident cat on the floor. Outside again: a garden terrace of white bentwood chairs and floral-clothed tables among roses, purple flowers and potted plants.

And the macarons are the main characters: bear, fish, peach, Totoro, chick, penguin, avocado — hand-drawn smiling faces, flavours on the shop's own menu card: Lemon, Blueberry Yogurt.

Character macarons

Every one a face

Bear, fish, peach, Totoro, chick, penguin, avocado, heart "love" — macarons with smiling faces.

Resident cats

Part of the room

A grey cat on a chair, a kitten peering at drinks — resident cats wander the room.

The dollhouse

Butter yellow, sky blue

A butter-yellow façade, a sky-blue door, pink-and-white gingham — a café like a dollhouse.

Video-thumbnail still: yellow dollhouse storefront with blue door and hanging plants
Video-thumbnail still from the shop's video (videos are unwatchable here): the yellow dollhouse storefront, hanging plants, the "Tiệm cà phê có mèo siu xinh" overlay.
Video-thumbnail still: resident grey cat on a chair
Video-thumbnail still from the shop's video (videos are unwatchable here): the resident grey cat on a chair, the "A cafe with cats in District 1 HCMC" overlay.
Kitten peering at two iced drinks on a table
A kitten peering at two iced drinks (iced coffee and golden iced tea) on a table.
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