Cooku's nest cafe — story

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The cuckoo's nest journal

A house of wood through and through — cuckoo clocks, the giant pencil, a quiet loft and unplugged music every evening from 8 PM.

Beat 01

A nest of wood

The whole space is clad in wood: wooden ceiling, walls, floor, furniture. A few books, a guitar leaning against the wall — and the smell of wood that brings back childhood. Wherever you sit you smell the wood; wherever you touch you feel the grain.

Beat 02

The quiet loft

Climb up to the mezzanine — the café's quietest corner. By day it's for reading, hot tea and mellow music drifting by in peace: no rush, no worries. Pick a spot overlooking the tiny stage and wait for the night.

Beat 03

The cuckoo clocks

Cuckoo clocks hang all over the wooden walls, ticking evenly — tic-tac, tic-tac. Among them stands the giant wooden pencil, the oddest ornament on Tú Xương street. Time here doesn't follow the city's clock; it follows the tick of wood.

Beat 04

The 8 PM unplugged night

Every night from 8 PM: raw vocals with no microphone, acoustic guitar, violin — 100% unplugged. Foreign classics like Yesterday, Donna Donna, Comme Toi alongside Trịnh Công Sơn, Phạm Duy and Từ Công Phụng. The owner opens with a story and a riddle, answered at night's end — like an evening among friends. White candles flicker on every table.

₫90,000/PERSON SURCHARGE

Beat 05

Easy to miss, hard to forget

Ride down Tú Xương and, if you don't look closely, you'll never spot the place. But the owner hunted down every glass and cup in Bình Dương and the outskirts' glass kilns, found décor fabrics across the cloth markets and ordered from abroad — hard to find anywhere else. Step in once, remember forever.

3.9★
108 reviews
8:30–22:00
every day
20:00
unplugged music nightly
₫90K
music-night surcharge/person
Cooku’s Nest
A cuckoo's nest on Tú Xương street — unplugged music every night from 8 PM.
Cooku's nest café · 17bis Tu Xuong, Xuan Hoa, Ho Chi Minh City · 3.9★ / 108 reviews
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