Ăn Chè Desserts

(Let's go) eat chè

Our goal is to introduce Vietnamese desserts and bring about renewed curiosity. By maintaining high-quality ingredients in our baking, we wish to keep both the ancestral flavours as well as pave a new path for the future of our heritage.

What is chè?

Chè [cɛ̂] is any traditional Vietnamese sweet pudding, dessert soup or a jelly-based beverage. Since chè can be served hot or cold, it is a great treat to enjoy all year round. Most of our chè are vegan, gluten-free and dairy-free.

No artificial color or flavours

We believe in quality. All our dyes are hand-extracted and derived from natural foods. All tapioca and agar jellies are made in house. After all, we are what we eat.

Our Story

Ăn Chè Desserts was born from a mixture of boredom and escapism. After our family trip to Asia was Covid canceled, I started reminiscing about Vietnamese sweets I had as a child. That's when it hit me that these desserts were not being offered in Montreal - at least not the kind I grew up with. I started experimenting; honing the recipe while talking to my mom and aunts about the recipes. The next thing I knew, I started organizing multiple pop-ups as I brought the whole community along my discovery journey.-Linh Le Kim, founder

In collaboration with Maka (from My Chinatown Montreal), we decided to create a magazine exploring Vietnamese identity and relationship with food.Interviewing twelve multigenerational Vietnamese restaurants in Montreal, the zine touches on Vietnamese identity, the significance of Vietnamese food and the owner’s reasons for opening their restaurant.The zine launched inApril 2022 with limited edition copies at a local independent bookstore, St Henri Books