Oasis Cafe303 Lê Văn SĩPhú Nhuận District028 3991 1991****************************************** Fish with your coffee? That’s what you’ll get at Saigon’s Oasis Cafe. Actually, the coffee and fish are served up separately at this Vietnamese, European, Disneyland establishment. The cafe sua da is presented in a traditional ice-filled glass, while schools of koi fish are free to swim through the flooded cafe floor [Read on …]
Lado Cafe (“Place of Passion”) 97/5 Le Quang Dinh, Ward 14 Binh Thanh District 08 2977630 A NEW NAME FOR THIS CAFE! ***** This lovely Saigon cafe is one of my favorite places in Ho Chi Minh City to stay cool and relax with a cà phê sữa đá (Vietnamese iced coffee with milk) on a [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 …]
Cafe Nhen 618/B11 Xô Viết Nghệ Tinh P.25, Bình Thạnh District ***** Spiders … Everywhere! But, relax. The hanging, creepy things are just part of the decor here at Cafe Nhen. A brightly colored webbed theme entirely entangles this small one-room cafe. Have a seat (on the floor), sip some good Vietnamese coffee, and possibly [Read on …]
Dừa tấc Pasteur street into District 3 (see directions below) ***** There’s a place in Saigon where you can enjoy a truly refreshing, thirst-quenching drink without ever getting off your motorbike. And luckily for Hai and I, it just happens to be on our way home from Saigon’s city center. Simple, delicious and cheap! That’s [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 …]
Highlands Coffee Mom always told me, “If you can’t say something NICE about somebody, then don’t say anything at all.” So, concerning Highlands Coffee in Saigon, ….. silence ….. ……. more silence ……. ………. a lot more silence ………. Okay, sorry mom, I can’t resist. Just one short comment. So, there [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 …]