Find Saigon Restaurants and Street Food Vendors Serving These General Kinds of Vietnamese Food
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 …]
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 …]
Bánh Sầu Riêng Durio Le Thi Rieng Park Cach Mang Thang Tam District 10 The other night, my landlady’s daughter, Ngoc, and her boyfriend, Vinh, called to invite Hai and I to join them for a late evening treat. What a nice surprise! Yes, sounds fun. Meet you downstairs in 20 minutes. The other night, [Read on …]
Dat Thanh 277 Vo Van Tan Street District 3 ***************************************** Hai and I just returned from our Christmas/ New Years (western) 3-week vacation in Europe. The food in Italy was outstanding and we absolutely loved some of the classic Italian dishes that are totally unavailable in Vietnam (and even difficult to find back in California). [Read on …]
Lunch today turned out to be a bit of a strange event. I hadn’t been to one of my favorite eateries for quite a while. So, when my good friend Tan asked where we should have lunch, I was actually excited to remember Miến Gà Kỳ Đồng and suggested we head over to District 3 [Read on …]
Chè Chuối 241 Vo Van Tan Street District 3 ***** Trust us when we rate Saigon’s “Chè Chuối – Banana Dessert” as YUM YUM YUM … and so close to tourist-center in District 1. Located on the street in front of Thien Ban Pagoda at: Chè Chuối 241 Vo Van Tan Street District 3 OPEN [Read on …]