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 …]
The Red Plastic Stool 12C Nguyen Phi Khanh District 1 ***** Announcing the latest “front-runner” in my never-ending search for a truly unique Saigon street food eating adventure! Begin the drum roll please. Hai actually introduced me to this unique eating experience more than a year ago. And, just a few weeks after that, a [Read on …]
No Saigon Street Food on CHRISTMAS EVE Well, it’s 92 F degrees (33 C) right now, late afternoon on Christmas Eve, 2012. I just climbed out of the Olympic-size swimming pool – enjoyed my 1000 meters of breast stroke laps. And then strolled back to my apartment, through the park in my shorts and flip-flops. [Read on …]
Alley Fruit Cocktail Hẻm 177 Lý Tự Trọng Street 0908 407 269 ***** Fruit Cocktail Fruit Cocktail – the very term makes me grimace. Images from my youth in New Jersey of canned Delmonte geometric cubes and spheres inside a metal can, masquerading as actual edible fruit items come to mind – and they’re not [Read on …]
Phở Hà 17 – 19 Hải Triều Street District 1 [see relocation note/warning below] ***** There’s a place in Saigon where you can stand in the middle of the street, spread your arms wide and touch (well almost) Saigon’s tallest, U.S.A.-architect-designed skyscaper with one hand; and a traditional Hanoi street food eatery with the other. [Read on …]
Chị Tuyên (formerly named Chị Thông) 195 Cô Giang Street District 1 ***** Yesterday, I went to Chị Thông and was horrified to see they were closed!! Oh no! Often listed in Eating Saigon!’s “Top 3” favorite Saigon street food listing, I was crushed! 🙁 See my earlier passionate eating adventure review for Chị Thông. But Wait! Who are [Read on …]
BITEXCO FINANCIAL TOWER I’ve actually had very little interest in visiting this Saigon “tourist spot”. But, it’s been impossible for me NOT to view this strange and arguably beautiful building almost everyday from various perspectives as I’ve searched for Saigon’s most interesting eating adventures. Finally, last week I could no longer resist the temptation to [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 …]