Cakes and Ale Cafe 6B Cong Truong Quoc Te (Ho Con Rua – Turtle Lake) District 3 (08) 35210367 0906.840.500 ******************************* Eating Saigon! readers may not be aware that about 95% of Eating Saigon! posts are written in Saigon cafes (not a big surprise, I’m sure). So, Yours truly has become, if not an expert on [Read on …]
Saigon Soymilk Lady 288 Doan Van Bo P.10, District 4 ***** Hai doesn’t currently make sữa đậu nành (soymilk drink) in his restaurant. But at home, he does prepare the best sữa đậu nành in Saigon. Well, at least he DID! Now I hope Hai doesn’t read this post, but the truth be told, there’s a little [Read on …]
Bánh Sầu Riêng Durio Le Thi Rieng Park Cach Mang Thang Tam District 10 The other night, my landlady’s daughter, Ngoc, and her boyfriend, Vinh, called to invite Hai and I to join them for a late evening treat. What a nice surprise! Yes, sounds fun. Meet you downstairs in 20 minutes. The other night, [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 …]