Hem Street Food manages to make Northbridge feel like Ho Chi Minh City. Serving banh mi by day and southern Vietnamese street food by night, Hem is the newest opening from “Danny” Nguyen Thanh Thien Dang, who moved from the Vietnamese city to Perth and opened Sup So Good.

During the day, it’s all about banh mi. Fish cake versions, made in-house with mackerel, fly out the door alongside grilled pork, roast pork, grilled chicken, and a traditional pork banh mi stacked with pork loaf, char siu, roast pork and floss.

At night, the menu shifts south. Literally. These are the snacks you find on the streets of Ho Chi Minh City, not the pan-Vietnamese greatest hits Perth already knows. Plastic tables spill into the alley, stools sit low to the ground, and suddenly Aberdeen Street feels less like Perth and more like a side street in Ho Chi Minh City after dark.