Located on the bustling Chau Van Liem Street in District 5, Ha Ky Sweet Soup is famous as one of the "must-try" places for Saigon sweet soup lovers. With over 30 years of experience, the shop has become a familiar destination for locals and tourists, offering a unique and unforgettable taste of Chinese sweet soup.
Che Ha Ky, 30 years old, is a familiar place for many generations of Cho Lon people.
Chinese flavor blends with Vietnamese features
Ha Ky Sweet Soup is famous for its sweet soups with strong Chinese flavors, meticulously prepared and retaining the original flavor. Hot sweet soups such as black sesame sweet soup, red bean sweet soup, black bean sweet soup, peanut sweet soup, floating rice balls sweet soup... are always loved by diners for their light sweetness and moderate fattiness.
In addition, the restaurant also creates many Vietnamese desserts to meet the diverse needs of customers such as almond tofu dessert, refreshing and nutritious red apple and longan dessert... all are great choices for hot days.
In addition to hot desserts, the shop also has cool, refreshing cold desserts.
Each dessert here is made from natural, fresh ingredients and meticulously prepared according to a traditional recipe. Thanks to that, Ha Ky dessert always retains its delicious, refreshing flavor and is especially not too sweet.
Compared to other Chinese sweet soup shops in Cho Lon area, Ha Ky scores points with its rich and diverse menu. Each customer will find their favorite sweet soup with its own unique flavor.
Thanh Tu (23 years old, Ho Chi Minh City) said: "Whenever I crave sweet soup, I visit this shop. The shop is affordable, friendly, and has many dishes to choose from. There are special dishes that only when eaten here, will you find them delicious and flavorful."
The tea has the aroma and bitterness of Chinese tea combined with the soft, fatty taste of chicken eggs, creating a strange, unique combination that is different from other common teas.
Many gourmets appreciate Ha Ky sweet soup for its unique flavor, which cannot be found anywhere else. The black sesame sweet soup and floating rice balls here have a light sweetness and moderate fattiness, the almond tofu sweet soup has an almond aroma and is cool to eat, the egg sweet soup is skillfully prepared, not fishy and full of tea flavor.
When talking about Ha Ky Sweet Soup, we cannot help but mention the famous black sesame sweet soup. The sweet, fatty taste, along with the attractive aroma of roasted sesame has conquered many diners. The secret of this sweet soup lies in the sesame roasting process, which must be roasted so that the sesame is evenly cooked, fragrant and retains its original fatty flavor.
Besides black sesame sweet soup, tea eggs are also a unique dessert of the shop, attracting the curiosity of many people. Chicken eggs are cooked with black tea until they turn dark brown, creating the rich flavor of eggs mixed with the bitter, light taste of tea. At first glance, it may make some people apprehensive, but tea eggs are really a delicious dish worth trying.
On every table at Ha Ky, diners can easily find a small, pretty teapot with typical Chinese patterns. The golden tea, with a slightly bitter taste, helps to effectively relieve the feeling of fullness after enjoying sweet desserts.
Enjoying desserts and sipping strong tea, many people's childhood memories appear in such simple things.
Besides sweet soup, the restaurant also serves many attractive snacks such as vegetarian pork skin rolls, vegetarian rice noodles with pork skin, steamed rice rolls, steamed rice cakes... making anyone who comes to Ha Ky feel "full" when leaving.
As one of the few famous sweet soup shops in Cho Lon area with a spacious and clean space, Ha Ky always attracts a large number of customers. For the people of Saigon, Ha Ky sweet soup is not only a simple sweet soup shop but also a place that preserves the childhood memories of many generations. When returning here, people feel nostalgic as if they have found something very familiar that has nurtured their souls for decades in this Cho Lon area.
