📍 Hemma Dessert Bar

📍42A Nguyễn Bá Huân,  An Khánh Ward, Thủ Đức District, Ho Chi Minh city

🕰6-11 pm

💰 Around 250.000 -300.000 VND/ pp

If nostalgia had a flavor, this would be it 🇸🇪✨

These desserts taste like home even when home is far away.

“Hemma” means home in Swedish  and the feeling is immediate, subtle, and sincere.

Opened in October last year by chef Niklas, Hemma is a newly born dessert bar shaped by years of experience across different countries. Here, that journey is distilled into something intimate, thoughtful, and distinctly Nordic-inspired.

What sets Hemma apart is its philosophy.

Each dessert is crafted or inspired from ingredients of past holiday seasons, not as an afterthought, but as intention. Nothing wasted. Everything transformed.

Nordic festive elements like mulled wine, dried kavring bread, and winter spices find new life in elegant, restrained desserts, long after Christmas has passed, when the noise of the season has faded.

The menu moves quietly through the four seasons of the Nordics.

Each dish feels like a memory : fleeting, grounded, and deeply rooted in place.

What made the experience even more special was chef Niklas himself. Warm, gentle, and genuinely kind;  we had a long chat about his craft, the stories behind each dessert, and the intention that guides everything he creates. You can feel that care in every detail, from flavor to presentation.

My favorites:

• Mushroom Cake:  inspired by autumn mushroom season. Earthy and contemplative, like walking through a Nordic forest, gathering mushrooms under fallen leaves.

Carrot Cake : warm, softly spiced, and comforting. A Swedish winter night by the fire, mulled wine in hand, waiting for Christmas to arrive.

Coming from the Nordics myself, Hemma awakens a gentle homesickness; the kind that feels tender rather than sad.

Not loud. Not performative. Just humble and kind, much like the owner himself. Even the interior feels like a Nordic home, carefully lived in.

Hemma isn’t simply a dessert bar;

it’s a quietly beautiful concept that stands apart in Saigon.

A reminder that home isn’t a place but it’s just a feeling despite where you are in the world.