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Hello Em Việt Coffee & Roastery, or simply Hello Em, is a Vietnamese coffee shop in
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Description

Hello Em is a "sleek" Vietnamese coffee shop on Weller Street in the Little Saigon area of
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's Chinatown-International District. ''The Seattle Times'' has described Hello Em as an "artisanal coffeehouse". The business' name was inspired by a greeting used in Vietnam. Hello Em shares the space with Friends of Little Sài Gòn within the Little Saigon Creative, which offers programming for the local Vietnamese community and has an art gallery, a community library, and an area for events and meetings. An interior wall displays historical facts about Little Saigon. A coffee roaster operates inside the front entrance, "so customers can watch the beans go from pale green to shimmering brown as they wait for their drinks", according to Naomi Tomky of the ''
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''. Beans sourced from Vietnamese are roasted on-site using a Neuhaus Neotec air roaster.


Menu

The ''cà phê brûlée'' is coffee with
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, topped with torched sugar. The ''cà phê chuoi'' has caramelized banana, coconut, and an egg cloud with salted peanuts and
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s, and the ''cà phê my dua'' is an iced coffee with a coconut cloud, pandan dust, and
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seeds. In addition to coffee drinks, the menu has included bánh mì, a Seattle Dog-inspired hot dog made with Laughing Cow cheese, pastries, and "cloud mochi" (mochi balls with fruit,
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cookies, and
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). A
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version of bánh mì has pâté, pork charcuterie, fried shallots, and lemongrass sauce.


History

Hello Em began operating in January 2021, hosting a grand opening on January 24. The business is owned by Nghia Bui and Yenvy Pham, a co-owner of Phở Bắc and
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. Hello Em is Seattle's first Vietnamese coffee roastery, according to the ''South Seattle Emerald''. In 2022, employees of Hello Em attended a "special personal safety and de-escalation training" by the city's crime prevention team, and sought help from authorities to clear a nearby homeless camp.


Reception

Naomi Tomky included the egg cloud and egg crème coffee in the ''Seattle Post-Intelligencer'''s 2021 list of 12 of the city's "most exciting, interesting egg dishes". She also recommended a visit to Hello Em in a 2022 travel guide of Seattle published by ''
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''. Megan Hill recommended the breakfast bánh mì and cloud mochi in ''Eater Seattle'''s 2021 list of the city's "best coffee shop bites", in which she said, "The food menu is outstanding — and photogenic." The website's Mark Van Streefkerk also included Hello Em in a 2022 list of the city's "essential" coffee shops. In 2022, Allecia Vermillion included Hello Em in ''
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''s overview of a dozen "destination" coffee shops, and '' Tasting Table'' included the business in a list of the 17 "best coffee roasters in Seattle that aren't Starbucks". Megan Seling included the ''cà phê chuoi'' in ''The Stranger'''s 2023 overview of Seattle's "best bites" for ten dollars or less.


See also

*
List of Vietnamese restaurants Following is a list of Vietnamese restaurants: * An Xuyên Bakery, Portland, Oregon, U.S. * Ba Bar, Seattle, Washington * Bambū * Berlu, Portland, Oregon * Dong Phuong Oriental Bakery, New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S. * Double Dragon, Portla ...
*
Vietnamese in Seattle The Vietnamese American community in the Seattle, Washington area is home to a large Vietnamese population of more than 55,000 residents, which is about 1.5% of the metropolitan area's population. Much of the Vietnamese community lives in the C ...


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* {{Restaurants in Seattle 2021 establishments in Washington (state) Chinatown–International District, Seattle Coffee companies of the United States Coffee in Seattle Restaurants established in 2021 Vietnamese restaurants in Seattle Vietnamese-American culture in Washington (state)