Bún Nước Huyền38/2 Nguyễn Công HoanHẻm 38Phường 7Phú Nhuận District *********************************** Eating Saigon! turns 12 years old this week! It’s hard to believe that Hai and I have been hard at work searching out, eating and writing about the best Saigon street food in this great food city for that long. But, it’s a job [Read on …]
RICE FIELD75 Hồ Tùng MậuDistrict 1090 693 86 36 ******************************************************* It’s Hai’s Birthday! Or actually, it was earlier this week. A special and fun opportunity for us to celebrate it together here in Saigon. Hai made the final decision about exactly where we should enjoy his birthday dinner celebration and more importantly what kinds of food would [Read on …]
Nhân Quán488 NguyễnThị Minh KhaiP.2, District 3 Even as Saigon transitions from that charming Indochine pearl of days gone by to its new Singapore-wanna-be identity, Eating Saigon! continues to seek – and discover – among the traffic-jammed streets of Ho Chi Minh City truly classic and traditional Saigon street food gems. Our most [Read on …]
Bánh Cuốn Tây Hồ127 Đinh Tiên Hoàng StreetDistrict 1# 38200584 ********************************************** There’s almost nothing better for breakfast in Saigon (except maybe phở bò or cơm tấm) than bánh cuốn. This thin rice/tapioca paper, crepe-like wrapper housing chunks of pork meat, taro, and onion, along with bits of wood ear mushroom called out to [Read on …]
Perhaps, the definitive authentic Hội An street food is bánh bèo. Recently, Hai and I savored that Hội An bánh bèo street food treat with our good friend, Pat, visiting us in Vietnam from southern California. For those who haven’t yet ventured to the central coast of Vietnam, bánh bèo, is one of the classic [Read on …]
Bánh Cuốn Tây Hồ 127 Đinh Tiên Hoàng Street District 1 # 38200584 ************************ Legend has it that this place serves the best bánh cuốn south of Hanoi … and has for the past 50 years!! WELL, SOME LEGENDS ARE REAL! So when I told Hai that I really felt like bánh cuốn for breakfast, [Read on …]
Who would believe it! It’s very cold here in Saigon. Well, at least it was a bit chilly last night. And the blustery breeze made it feel uncomfortably cool. Hai and I arrived back in Saigon about midnight last night after spending a 23 semi-grueling hours “on the road”: Drive from Berkeley to the San [Read on …]
It’s a rare night when Hai and I ride past the amazing foods on Saigon’s small streets and alleys in Binh Thanh or District 10 and ride into Saigon’s District 1 tourist center in order to enjoy some “real” Vietnamese food. What? Sounds counter-intuitive I know. But … There is one place whose food is [Read on …]