Chè Chuối 241 Vo Van Tan Street District 3 ***** Trust us when we rate Saigon’s “Chè Chuối – Banana Dessert” as YUM YUM YUM … and so close to tourist-center in District 1. Located on the street in front of Thien Ban Pagoda at: Chè Chuối 241 Vo Van Tan Street District 3 OPEN [Read on …]
Pacey Cupcakes 53G Nguyen Du Street District 1 0838233233 www.paceycupcakes.com UPDATE – January, 2018: Sadly Pacey Cupcakes has disappeared from this location. 🙁 According to their website ( https://www.paceycupcakes.com ), they’re still available at 14 Đặng Dung, Tân Định, Quận 1. ***** I walked into this tiny shop and the young Vietnamese woman behind the cupcake [Read on …]
Trop. B 306/4 Nguyễn Thị Minh Khai District 3 0918016611 UPDATE – February, 2023: CLOSED AND GONE 🙁 ***** In Vietnam, when there are 11 siblings in the family, your brothers and sisters are often referred to by the sequence in which they arrived in the family. Thus, last night we celebrated the birthday of [Read on …]
Alley Fruit Cocktail Hẻm 177 Lý Tự Trọng Street 0908 407 269 ***** Fruit Cocktail Fruit Cocktail – the very term makes me grimace. Images from my youth in New Jersey of canned Delmonte geometric cubes and spheres inside a metal can, masquerading as actual edible fruit items come to mind – and they’re not [Read on …]
Ice Cream & Rice If you’re a teen listen up! If you’re a bit older, listen up anyway. First, who doesn’t like ice cream? Easy answer – no one! Secondly, who in Vietnam doesn’t like rice – again, no one! Finally, who doesn’t like sticky rice with ice cream? Ah …. please repeat the question. [Read on …]
KUMHO ASIANA PLAZA 39 Le Duan St. District 1 ***** CONFESSION TIME It has been more than seven months now that I have been eating, writing about eating, and taking photos of eating – all about Saigon Street Food. And, it is with that history here at Eating Saigon! that I have tried to establish [Read on …]
Vietnam’s Mid-Autumn Moon Festival Bánh Trung Thu (“Moon Cakes”) Are Mid-Autumn Moon Festival “Moon Cakes” Vietnam’s Christmas “Fruit Cakes”? I think maybe so. Everyone gets one (or many) Bánh Trung Thu as gifts for the holiday. And so many are never unboxed. Instead, special friends pass them along as special holiday gifts to other special friends? Now, certainly [Read on …]
Sinh Tố Võ Văn Tần Street District 3 * One & 1/2 blocks west of Cach Mang Thang Tam * Across the street from 203 Võ Văn Tần ***** Looking for a relaxing place to sit, to watch the world (or at least Saigon’s street life) go by, and to enjoy perhaps Saigon’s best sinh tố (fruit shake, [Read on …]