Saigon street food
Bánh Mì Huỳnh Hoa 26 Le Thi Rieng Street District 1 ***** Where is the best Bánh Mì in Saigon? I think I know. Bánh mì is among the most popular and ubiquitous street foods in Saigon. Walk any street in Saigon and you’re likely to find at least one street food vendor smearing a small [Read on …]
Sometimes there’s not a lot to say. And that’s okay – because there’s not a need to say a lot. That’s the case when sharing our most recent vegetarian street food experience in Saigon’s District 3. One evening last week, Hai and I just wanted a quick bite on our way home. Zipping down [Read on …]
Phở Lệ 303 – 305 Võ Văn Tần District 3 Phỡ Thanh Bình 18B Nguyễn Thị Minh Khai District 3 Phơ Hữu 58 Cửu Long Bac Hai neighborhood P.15, District 10 ***** UPDATE (SEPT 2014): Click here for our latest Best Phở in Saigon listing. Inevitably, anyone who eats, cooks, or travels in Vietnam, or writes [Read on …]
Eating with Saigon’s Transgender On Monday night, Hai and I headed off for dinner to a small neighborhood eatery alongside one of Saigon’s main “canals”. Now, to be clear, that would NOT be “canals” in the sense of Venice, Italy, fed by open seawater. But, much more like the “canals” of Bangkok, fed by the [Read on …]
SAIGON STREET FOOD REUNION Last week I began with “the Pulleys”! Mmmnnn?” you wonder. What’s Joe gotten into now?” Some new kinetic physics experiment? Hoisting a piano from the street up to his apartment’s fourth-floor balcony? Or, God save us, some unmentionable new Asian erotic device? Well, NO. It’s just the same old song – [Read on …]
Just twelve more meals here in northern California before I return to Ho Chi Minh City to once again savor amazing Saigon Street Food! That’s three meals each day for the next 4 days before I board Cathay Pacific’s midnight flight from San Francisco to Saigon. But who’s counting? That would be ME! Now, don’t [Read on …]
It’s 6:30 am, time for a quick breakfast before starting the work day, or the day’s tour. You’ve had phở six mornings in a row for breakfast, cơm (rice) six evenings in a row for dinner. What to do? How about a big juicy beef steak! That’s our situation a few times each month. As [Read on …]
Hai and I have a nightly ritual concerning where we will eat dinner. Each evening after work and after our respective workouts at California Wow we hop on Hai’s motorbike and head down Le Lai Street off to dinner. But where? Immediately, Hai will ask, “Where do you want to eat?” He’s driving, so a [Read on …]