Find Saigon Restaurants and Street Food Vendors Serving These General Kinds of Vietnamese Food
Cakes and Ale Cafe 6B Cong Truong Quoc Te (Ho Con Rua – Turtle Lake) District 3 (08) 35210367 0906.840.500 ******************************* Eating Saigon! readers may not be aware that about 95% of Eating Saigon! posts are written in Saigon cafes (not a big surprise, I’m sure). So, Yours truly has become, if not an expert on [Read on …]
Bánh Canh Bột Gạo Cắt 75 Nguyễn Bỉnh Khiêm, P. Đa Kao District 1 0122 365 6973; 0904 499 298 ***** Having served her food at this street corner for over ten years, this Saigon street food vendor features a few special treats! First, Bánh Canh Bột Gạo Cắt‘s District 1 location is rather convenient to Saigon’s [Read on …]
Banksy Studio Cafe’ 1st Floor, Old Apartment Building 14 Tôn Thất Đạm District 1 0169 999 0003 ***** No place in Saigon could be further from the classic verdant rice paddy image of Vietnam than the Banksy Studio Cafe’. I mean, Was I in Sojo, New York City, 1970? Was I in the Haight-Ashbury, San Francisco, 1972? NO, [Read on …]
Once in awhile Hai and I get feedback from an Eating Saigon! follower that makes our blogging all worthwhile. In this case, John from Wellington, New Zealand, shared his thoughts about Hai’s restaurant in a Tripadvisor review on April 23, 2015. We thought you might enjoy reading John’s review here – we certainly loved it! [Read on …]
“What makes a bánh mì a bánh mì?” Clearly this is one of the great questions of our time. Well, at least for those of us who eat, love, and write about street food in Saigon, and perhaps even for those who enjoy Vietnamese food anywhere around the world. Bánh mì in Vietnam, in its most [Read on …]
Perhaps, the definitive authentic Hội An street food is bánh bèo. Recently, Hai and I savored that Hội An bánh bèo street food treat with our good friend, Pat, visiting us in Vietnam from southern California. For those who haven’t yet ventured to the central coast of Vietnam, bánh bèo, is one of the classic [Read on …]
An Bàng Beach Village Restaurant 6B An Bàng Cam An, Hội An ***** I love Saigon. But, sometimes it’s nice to spread your toes at the beach! And that’s just what we did when our good friend, Pat from San Diego, came to visit Hai and I in Saigon a few weeks ago. Some years back, [Read on …]
As Eating Saigon! regular readers well know, Hai and I love going on eating adventures here in Saigon … and sharing our adventures with the world. BUT, something we love even more, is when fellow eating adventurers seeking a great place to eat in Saigon, trust our advice and decide to pursue one of our recommendations on [Read on …]