{"id":3276,"date":"2026-07-01T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dulcedesaigon.com\/vi\/?p=3276"},"modified":"2026-07-09T10:56:03","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T03:56:03","slug":"cau-chuyen-dulce-de-saigon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dulcedesaigon.com\/vi\/dulce-de-saigon-story\/","title":{"rendered":"American Bakery, Saigon Heart: The Dulce de Saigon Story"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Our local baking team preparing small-batch desserts from scratch every morning.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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American Bakery, Saigon Heart: The Dulce de Saigon Story<\/h1>\n

Dulce de Saigon is an independent American-style bakery in B\u00e0n C\u1edd Ward, District 3, Ho Chi Minh City.<\/strong> <\/a><\/p>\n

Started in 2019 by a husband-and-wife team \u2014 Thu, a self-taught Vietnamese baker, and Garret, an American from Oregon. We build thick, gooey cookies, Basque and New York cheesecake, tres leches, and custom cakes \u2014 entirely from scratch, with real butter. The name \u201cDulce\u201d is Spanish for sweet<\/em> \u2014 not French, despite what people assume.<\/p>\n

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How it started: a home oven and a lockdown<\/h2>\n

Dulce began in 2019 as a home bakery \u2014 one oven, a small following, a lot of trial and error. Thu taught herself to bake the way a lot of great bakers start now: YouTube, repetition, and stubbornness (Cupcake Jemma<\/a> got a lot of replays). Before baking, she\u2019d worked as a TikTok business account manager and a data analyst \u2014 useful skills for someone who\u2019d end up running a kitchen and a brand.<\/p>\n

Then 2021 happened. During Saigon\u2019s hardest COVID lockdowns, when most places shut, we kept going \u2014 online-only, made-to-order, because for stretches of it we were living in the bakery<\/em> to stay operational. For a lot of isolated expats that year, a Dulce delivery was a small piece of home showing up at the door. We registered officially in December 2021, and we\u2019ve never taken outside
\ncapital. What you taste is what we built, slowly, ourselves.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThey were like, \u2018Oh my god \u2014 what are you doing? Sell it, sell it.\u2019\u201d
\n\u2014 Thu<\/strong>, on the friends who pushed her to go pro (from our feature in
\nSaucefish<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Who makes it: Thu and Garret<\/h2>\n

We\u2019re co-founders and a married couple, which means the bakery is genuinely personal.<\/p>\n