Vietnam’s classic noodle soup
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 …]
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 …]
Phú Gia 146E Ly Chinh Thang P.7, District 3 0942 848 268 ********************************** Here in Saigon (and all of Vietnam), locals and visitors alike spend endless days and countless meals searching for that perfect and amazing bowl of phở. As Eating Saigon! readers know, Hai and I have done the same … consuming liters of [Read on …]
Perhaps the most interesting and fun part of both visiting and living in Saigon is getting to know Saigon’s Street Food Ladies … and their amazing foods. Many of these women have been at work everyday tending their street food treasures for 10, 20, 30, and even 40 years – perhaps sitting on that same [Read on …]
Click on each flag in our “Phở in Saigon” map below to get the name and address of each of our favorites Saigon phở eateries. Then, read more about our visits there. Eating Saigon!’s “PHỞ IN SAIGON” Map View Pho in Saigon in a larger map
Phở Thanh Cảnh 55 Nguyễn Cư Trinh street District 1 (on corner with Cống Quỳnh street) ***** So what does one eat when he’s been living in Saigon continuously for nearly a year, and he wants to enjoy one last memorable meal with friends before heading back to the USA for several months? Maybe I [Read on …]
Phở Phú-Vương #1 333E Lê Văn Sỹ (corner of Hem 333) Tân Bình District Phở Phú-Vương #2 120 Nguyễn Thái Bình Q. 1 ****************** The horizon has turned jet black. The continuous rumble of thunder is growing louder. The dragonflies are swarming at the edge of my 4th-floor balcony. I’ve unplugged my laptop, just in [Read on …]