Entry Nº 01 — the nest journal
The wooden loft that keeps you
Two field notes from the nest journal — why this little wooden house is unlike anywhere else.
NOTE 01
Ride down Tú Xương street and, if you don't look closely, you'll never spot Cooku's Nest. But step inside and the whole wooden space holds you — gentle, warm, reminding you of childhood days.
The owner went hunting for every glass and cup in Bình Dương and the outskirts' glass kilns; décor fabrics were found across cloth markets and ordered from abroad — hard to find anywhere else.
Easy to miss from the street; impossible to forget once inside. Every cup was hunted down in Bình Dương kilns, every fabric in cloth markets — nothing here exists anywhere else.NOTE 02
Climb to the mezzanine and pick a spot looking down at the tiny stage. Mondays are quiet — around 8 PM the singer starts. The owner opens with a story and a riddle, answered at the end of the night.
It all feels like a conversation among friends: close, familiar. Guests happily sit cross-legged on the floor before the stage.
From the mezzanine you look down on the tiny stage. The owner opens with a story and a riddle, answered at night's end — like an evening among friends.Entry Nº 02 — a day in the nest
From white morning sun to night candles
The nest's daily rhythm — one slow day's round.
8:30 AM — MORNING
Doors open, sun slants through the wood
The place is cool and bathed in soft white. Windows half-light — set apart from the noisy streets. Read, work, take your time together.
AFTERNOON — THE LOFT
Hot tea & a page
The loft is the café's quietest corner: sip hot tea, listen to mellow tunes. An afternoon that passes in peace — no rush, no worries.
8:00 PM — MUSIC NIGHT
Candles lit, the music goes unplugged
White candles flicker on every table. Raw vocals with no microphone, acoustic guitar, violin — Yesterday, Donna Donna, Comme Toi, plus Trịnh Công Sơn, Phạm Duy, Từ Công Phụng. Surcharge 90.000₫/person.
10:00 PM — CLOSING
The nest sleeps
The music night ends, the cuckoo clock keeps ticking. Tomorrow the doors open again at 8:30 — the nest is never in a hurry.
MUSIC NIGHT SURCHARGE ₫90,000/PERSON
Entry Nº 03 — the typewriter menu
Oddball drinks, printed on burlap
Genuinely oddball — prices transcribed verbatim, never invented.
See the full menu →
Entry Nº 04 — the door
Finding the nest
ADDRESS17bis Tu Xuong, Xuan Hoa, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
HOURS8:30–22:00 daily · unplugged music from 8 PM
RATING3.9★ · 108 reviews · moderate
3.9★ — 108 REVIEWS
How to visit →
20:00
unplugged music nightly
₫90K
music-night surcharge/person