Hai’s nephew, Thai, invited Hai and I to join him and his girlfriend, Phuong Anh, (she was very beautiful & spoke English well 🙂 ) to enjoy some bánh cuốn for dinner last evening. Now I always enjoy bánh cuốn. But, typically I view bánh cuốn as a small breakfast or evening snack – not [Read on …]
Our Return to Eating Saigon! We’re Back!! After an amazing 6 weeks traveling around the Golden State, introducing Hai to California during his first-ever trip to the USA, we just returned to Saigon this week. What better way to put living in Saigon back into perspective than to slide down the snowy slopes of Lake Tahoe, [Read on …]
Saigon’s closest seaside resort town, Vũng Tàu, is just a 1 1/2 hour hydrofoil ferry ride from District 1. Ferries depart from the Saigon River dock at the end of Nguyen Hue Street in District 1 at least a half-dozen times each day. The small coastal city is a popular weekend getaway for many of [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 …]
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 …]
Quán Ốc Quang Anh Does anyone know how many different kinds of ốc ̣(snails & related shellfish) there are in the world? How about, just in Vietnam? Sorry, I don’t know either … well, except I know there’s a WHOLE LOT! Hai and my recent stop at Quán Ốc Quang Anh for dinner made that clear. A [Read on …]
Quán Bảy Đực – Saigon’s Best BBQ Chicken After 6 years living in Vietnam and after almost a full year of writing about Saigon’s unique street food here at Eating Saigon!, I love that I can still be surprised by an unexpected eating adventure. Last night, when Hai suggested that I should meet him at [Read on …]
Trop. B 306/4 Nguyễn Thị Minh Khai District 3 0918016611 UPDATE – February, 2023: CLOSED AND GONE 🙁 ***** In Vietnam, when there are 11 siblings in the family, your brothers and sisters are often referred to by the sequence in which they arrived in the family. Thus, last night we celebrated the birthday of [Read on …]