Find Saigon’s Restaurants and Street Food Vendors Serving These Vietnam Dishes
Vú Dê Nướng & Lẩu Dê (BBQ Goat Udder & Goat Meat Hot Pot) This week I decided it was time to return to California Fitness & Yoga (Saigon’s “premier” health club , better know in the city as “California Wow!)) in order to begin to pay my dues for having stayed away from serious [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 …]
Last Updated: Thursday, March 29, 2012 03:25:00 Known as “the coconut land,” the Mekong Delta province of Ben Tre will launch a week long festival featuring its characteristic fruit from April 4-10. One of the key activities at the 3rd Ben Tre Coconut Festival is a food and beverage festival that offers [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 …]
I’m not sure exactly why, but it seems that food always costs a bit more in Districts 5, & 11, the “Chinese” areas of Saigon. Of course, by western standards, its not expensive at all, but by Saigon standards, I’d say it is. But once in a while, I just feel like eating something different [Read on …]
The Lunch Lady Lô C1 Chung Cư 1A1B, Nguyễn Đình Chiểu District 1 ***** Literally for years, I’ve been reading about The Lunch Lady whenever I would read backpacker online discussions about Saigon Street Food. For reasons I can’t really explain, even after living in Saigon for over 4 years, I simply never quite got it [Read on …]