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 …]
PHỞ LAI48/24 Mê LinhP.19Bình Thạnh District09 3327 9773 ************************************** Our favorite Bình Thạnh neighborhood, where Hai and I have been staying each time we’ve returned to Saigon for the past many years, is changing at an extreme pace – just like all of Saigon. Not so many years ago, when we first stayed at the [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 …]
Change can be good. That is, as long as it doesn’t involve the disappearance of your favorite Saigon phở bò eatery AND of your favorite phở gà restaurant in the same month! TMC – “too much change”!! Luckily, there’s good news. They didn’t actually disappear. They just found new homes and relocated. Phở Phú-Vương First, [Read on …]
After decades of making perhaps the best phở gà (chicken phở), Phở Hà was forced to move just down the street by a landlord eviction. Although the landlord has tried to replace Phở Hà‘s menu himself at its prior location, do yourself a favor and stick with the excellent original now moved a few doors away at its new location: 17-19 Hải Triều Street, District 1. Read [Read on …]
Gà Quê 15 Ngô Tát Tố Bình Thạnh District Quán Phong Lan54 Cửu LongDistrict 100988 818 971 ********************* There we were, on an almost deserted street of Saigon at 4:30 am just outside the Saigon Zoo (already closed for the Tet holiday) doing our extremely early jog/power-walk (inspired by jetlag), when the celestial message appeared! [Read on …]
Quán Phong Lan 54 Cửu Long District 10 0988 818 971 ********************* After having lived in Saigon’s Bắc Hải district for many years – and loved it – I now have yet another wonderful reason to re-claim it as my favorite neighborhood in Ho Chi Minh City. Certainly, Bắc Hải’s major attraction is its lovely [Read on …]