Trop. B 306/4 Nguyễn Thị Minh Khai District 3 0918016611 UPDATE – February, 2023: CLOSED AND GONE 🙁 ***** In Vietnam, when there are 11 siblings in the family, your brothers and sisters are often referred to by the sequence in which they arrived in the family. Thus, last night we celebrated the birthday of [Read on …]
Alley Fruit Cocktail Hẻm 177 Lý Tự Trọng Street 0908 407 269 ***** Fruit Cocktail Fruit Cocktail – the very term makes me grimace. Images from my youth in New Jersey of canned Delmonte geometric cubes and spheres inside a metal can, masquerading as actual edible fruit items come to mind – and they’re not [Read on …]
“Rice of help” for those in need Tuoi Tre October 23, 2012 A restaurant sells lunch for loss, in the center of Ho Chi Minh City. A day’s menu includes rice, chicken with a ginger sauce, fried vegetables with meat, vegetable soup with ground meat, a piece of papaya for dessert, free drinking [Read on …]
Ice Cream & Rice If you’re a teen listen up! If you’re a bit older, listen up anyway. First, who doesn’t like ice cream? Easy answer – no one! Secondly, who in Vietnam doesn’t like rice – again, no one! Finally, who doesn’t like sticky rice with ice cream? Ah …. please repeat the question. [Read on …]
Chị Tuyên (formerly named Chị Thông) 195 Cô Giang Street District 1 ***** Yesterday, I went to Chị Thông and was horrified to see they were closed!! Oh no! Often listed in Eating Saigon!’s “Top 3” favorite Saigon street food listing, I was crushed! 🙁 See my earlier passionate eating adventure review for Chị Thông. But Wait! Who are [Read on …]
Saigon Street Food? – Vietnamese PIZZA NEWS FLASH: Perhaps the most original, unique and authentic Saigon street food adventure yet uncovered by Eating Saigon’s street food reconnaissance team (that would be Hai and I) can now be reported. Well, in fact, we had a little help finding this place, as follows: Hai and I received [Read on …]
BITEXCO FINANCIAL TOWER I’ve actually had very little interest in visiting this Saigon “tourist spot”. But, it’s been impossible for me NOT to view this strange and arguably beautiful building almost everyday from various perspectives as I’ve searched for Saigon’s most interesting eating adventures. Finally, last week I could no longer resist the temptation to [Read on …]
Bánh Căn in Saigon Some Eating Saigon! readers might recall that a few months ago, Hai and I joined his family for a very fun three-day excursion to Nha Trang, a very wonderful beach resort along the south-central coast of Vietnam. You might also recall (and not be very surprised) that our adventure there included [Read on …]