Sorrento Cafe’ 91/6 Hòa Hưng District 10 ***** Last year about this time, Hai and I enjoyed an espresso coffee in Sorrento on Italy’s Amalfi coast. Stunning! Beautiful! Breathtaking! This morning Hai and I enjoyed a cà phê sữa đá (Vietnamese iced coffee with milk) at the Sorrento Cafe’ here in Ho Chi Minh City. [Read on …]
Starbucks Phu Dong Thien Vuong roundabout (Nguyen Thi Nghia & Pham Hong Thai Street) District 1 ***** STARBUCKS COFFEE SAIGON I LOVE VIETNAMESE COFFEE. Cà Phê Sữa Đá (iced Vietnamese coffee with sweetened condensed milk) is my favorite. When visiting Vietnam, treating yourself to some real Vietnamese coffee should be right up there with enjoying authentic [Read on …]
‘It’s a free country… sell your shares’: Starbucks CEO blasts shareholder who told him that company’s support for gay marriage was hitting profits By Daily Mail Reporter 23 March 2013 Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz defended the coffee company’s support of gay marriage at a stockholders meeting in Seattle this week. During the business meeting, shareholder [Read on …]
Cafe A & B Where Hem Só 20 (off Trần Não Street) meets the Saigon River District 2 Quán Thu Hiền 1B Trần Não Street District 2 ***** This past Sunday was NOT “just another Sunday” … One of my favorite Vietnamese lunches! A breezy afternoon coffee alongside the Saigon River. A surprise visit by chanting Buddhist monks (on [Read on …]
I’m Your’s Cafe’ 29/27 Đoàn Thị Điểm P.1, Phú Nhuận District ***** A little bit of Berkeley in Saigon Jimmy Hendricks, David Bowie, Amy Winehouse images plastered on the walls. Colorful psychedelic lights. Guitars. “Hippie” hair. Good coffee. Fruit shakes. Young artists. Great live music. Was I transported home to Berkeley yesterday? Was I having [Read on …]
Pacey Cupcakes 53G Nguyen Du Street District 1 0838233233 www.paceycupcakes.com UPDATE – January, 2018: Sadly Pacey Cupcakes has disappeared from this location. 🙁 According to their website ( https://www.paceycupcakes.com ), they’re still available at 14 Đặng Dung, Tân Định, Quận 1. ***** I walked into this tiny shop and the young Vietnamese woman behind the cupcake [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 …]