Find Saigon’s Restaurants and Street Food Vendors Serving These Vietnam Dishes
CLOSED as of January 2015 Usually, I go to try go to sample some new street food or a new eatery with a completely open mind. That’s my job – to be objective when sharing my experience about a Saigon restaurant or street food eating adventure. But, I must confess, last week I went to [Read on …]
M O F Japanese Sweets UNDER CONSTRUCTION 30 Le Loi Blvd District 1 HCMC (08) 38 277 898 B3 Floor Vincom Shopping Mall District 1 HCMC (08) 39 369 779 View MOF Japanese Sweets! in a larger map
When people ask me what is my favorite food in Vietnam, I always pause for a moment. Not because I have any doubt about the answer. That is very clear to me. But because I am instantly transfixed back to a tiny shop in a narrow alley in the Ancient Quarter of Hanoi, with its [Read on …]
Once in awhile, Hai and I decide it’s time for a change and want to try some “foreign” food. So, we venture into Saigon’s tourist district where more upscale restaurants offer a variety of non-Vietnamese foods to suit the taste of international travelers and Vietnam’s emerging middle class. One of our favorite’s is Lac Thai [Read on …]
Phở Thanh Bình 18B Nguyen Thi Minh Khai District 3 ***** After a long search and some steep (and delicious) competition, Hai and I have agreed that Phở Thanh Bình is among our favorite spots for Phở Bò in Saigon. (Hai’s been loving the phở here since he was in high school!) Not quite “on the street”, [Read on …]
When the French left Vietnam in 1954, they left behind incredibly delicious baguettes and some of the best coffee in the world. Vietnamese coffee is like no other. Strong, bitter, typically served with sweetened condensed milk. A real jolt of flavor! Vietnam is now one of the world’s largest exporters of coffee and Saigon and [Read on …]
Recently, our friends, Janelle and Ashley from Oakland California, e-mailed me to let me know they would be visiting Vietnam for the first time (oh yes, and also to get married! Wow!) Besides their wedding planning in northern Vietnam, I asked them to try to plan some time to see a little bit of the [Read on …]
During the many years that we have lived in Vietnam, Hai and I have searched daily for the best Places to Eat in Saigon and have uncovered some of the best Street Food available in Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC). See Who Are Joe and Hai? Early in 2012 we will launch “Eating Saigon” [Read on …]