Omsom
READ: Forbes 30u30 revives tired Asian Food category with Omsom, disruptive, delicious, sauces + saucy noodles in partnership with iconic Asian chefs.
Her company has been featured in Epicurious, Thrillist, Food & Wine Mag, Tech Crunch, Vogue and more! She’s doing collaborations with boundary-pushing, award winning NYC chefs from Chat and Ohm Suansilphong from Fish Cheeks, NYC, to Nicole Ponseca at Jeepney, NYC, and Jimmy Ly Madame at Madame Vo.
She is the daughter of Vietnamese refugees, and she grew up in her family’s kitchen counter, watching her Mẹ cook Vietnamese dinners from scratch every night - bc like so many Asian moms, this was her love language to her children.
She’s a Harvard grad and in her past life she and her co-founding sister cut their teeth in startups and management consulting. But after sometime, she couldn’t refuse the call to return to her roots and finally build the company of her dreams.
Omsom is a vietnamese phrase meaning noisy, rambunctious, riotous, most often used by parents to scold unruly, raucous children in the back of the car.
But Omsom is also her and her sister’s fiery love letter to their people, their food, and their Phamily (both ancestors and chosen). No more diluted dishes, no more cultural compromise. Real deal Asian cuisine and communities are too damn delicious to deny.
Their slogan is “Pull up a stool and grab a bowl – welcome to our house.”
And ours is “Welcome to the table, pull up your seat.” So it felt like the absolute perfect fit to sit down with Vanessa Pham, CEO and Co-Founder of Omsom. Welcome to the table and the ManifestHer podcast, Vanessa!
Listen: This episode was originally aired on ManifestHer podcast, the recording is available upon request
Learn: https://omsom.com/
