… hum32 Võ Văn Tần,Phường 6 District 3 ********************************************* Last month, long-time good friends of Hai and mine, DJ and Gerry, came to enjoy several weeks touring Vietnam. Luckily for us, they planned more than a week-long stay in Saigon. What an opportunity for us test our Eating Saigon! food blog on innocent victims! Of course, our first impulse [Read on …]
Bún Nước Huyền38/2 Nguyễn Công HoanHẻm 38Phường 7Phú Nhuận District *********************************** Eating Saigon! turns 12 years old this week! It’s hard to believe that Hai and I have been hard at work searching out, eating and writing about the best Saigon street food in this great food city for that long. But, it’s a job [Read on …]
In April, 2020, when German television presents Eating Saigon! enjoying a delicious Vietnamese lunch around a table at Hai’s restaurant, will the audio be in Vietnamese, subtitled in German, as Hai speaks (for a German television viewing audience?) Or in English, subtitled in German (during Joe’s interview)? Or will Vietnamese audio be subtitled to English [Read on …]
PHỞ LAI48/24 Mê LinhP.19Bình Thạnh District09 3327 9773 ************************************** Our favorite Bình Thạnh neighborhood, where Hai and I have been staying each time we’ve returned to Saigon for the past many years, is changing at an extreme pace – just like all of Saigon. Not so many years ago, when we first stayed at the [Read on …]
RICE FIELD75 Hồ Tùng MậuDistrict 1090 693 86 36 ******************************************************* It’s Hai’s Birthday! Or actually, it was earlier this week. A special and fun opportunity for us to celebrate it together here in Saigon. Hai made the final decision about exactly where we should enjoy his birthday dinner celebration and more importantly what kinds of food would [Read on …]
CAFÉ TARTINE SAIGON27 Trần Quang LongBình Thạnh District ***************************************************** It’s very very wonderful when a reader of your food blog contacts you to tell you they love your street food blog and that they are currently eating their way through your “Where to eat Saigon Street food” recommendations. How cool is that! But then, those [Read on …]
As regular readers of Eating Saigon! know, each year Hai and I travel back to Vietnam for several months to find new and amazing Saigon street foods so we can recommend to our readers the best places to eat in Saigon. And, of course, we enjoy time with Hai’s family – all 11 siblings – [Read on …]
Less than twelve months ago, Hai and I purchased the 1.5 acre parcel of land on a beautiful hilltop on the Cam Lập Peninsula overlooking the Southeast Asia Sea. Well, now that I think about it, only Hai’s name is on the “red paper” (Vietnam’s deed of ownership document). Oh well, congratulations Hai! In any [Read on …]