… hum32 Võ Văn Tần,Phường 6 District 3 ********************************************* Last month, long-time good friends of Hai and mine, DJ and Gerry, came to enjoy several weeks touring Vietnam. Luckily for us, they planned more than a week-long stay in Saigon. What an opportunity for us test our Eating Saigon! food blog on innocent victims! Of course, our first impulse [Read on …]
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 …]
In April, 2020, when German television presents Eating Saigon! enjoying a delicious Vietnamese lunch around a table at Hai’s restaurant, will the audio be in Vietnamese, subtitled in German, as Hai speaks (for a German television viewing audience?) Or in English, subtitled in German (during Joe’s interview)? Or will Vietnamese audio be subtitled to English [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 …]
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 …]