Comments on: Snackin’ in Saigon https://uncorneredmarket.com/snackin-in-saigon/ Travel That Cares for Our Planet and Its People Mon, 22 Apr 2024 16:06:18 +0000 hourly 1 By: Daniel Noll https://uncorneredmarket.com/snackin-in-saigon/#comment-481128 Mon, 29 Oct 2012 03:38:21 +0000 http://uncorneredmarket.com/2007/02/saigon-eats/#comment-481128 @LT: I know. Absolutely true. We visited some friends in the outer districts. And as always, the further from the center you go, the more authentic Vietnamese cuisine you get. Thanks for the reminder of a great tip!

@kehn: Thank you for so many terrific Vietnamese food suggestions in HCMC and elsewhere. This is a terrific “Best of” Vietnamese food list.

When we return to Vietnam, we’ll be sure to send you an email and maybe we can visit some of these places together.

Thanks again!

]]> By: kehn https://uncorneredmarket.com/snackin-in-saigon/#comment-471923 Thu, 18 Oct 2012 19:39:25 +0000 http://uncorneredmarket.com/2007/02/saigon-eats/#comment-471923 hello everybody,
i’m vietnamese.I’m glad to see you love vietnam(VN).
Ben Thanh market is one of biggest market in VN, it have many tasty food there, but the price is higher than others and .
we have variety tasty dishes in each area in VN, each dish has many way to cook so the taste is also different, “banh canh” in HCMC is so diffirent from in HN, Da Nang…ect.
being VNese, i suggest you to enjoy ” My quang(mỳ quảng)”, ” cao lau (cao lầu)”, Com Ga( Rice with Chicken)… in Hoi An. You also find these dishes in HCMC…
In HCMC you can find almost of tasty dishes in VN. There are many dishes you should taste when you are in HCMC: “Bánh xèo”( VIETNAM CREPES) at Bánh xèo Mười Xiềm 190 Nam Kỳ Khởi NghÄ©a district 3, “phở” at phở 24 , phở Hòa pasteur at 260c Pasteur district 3, “Bánh canh ghẹ” at 505 SÆ° Vạn Hạnh distrit 10, “CÆ¡m Hến” at Nam Giao 136/15 Lê Thánh Tôn behind Ben Thanh Market, some kind of ” Nem”(pork hash wrapped in leaf), variety of hot-pot such as: goat hot-pot at 45 Ngô Thời Nhiệm district 3, fish hot-pot at DÆ°Æ¡ng Tá»­ Giang street district 5 ….and many other delicious dishes there.
for street food, don’t forget to enjoy “Bún riêu”, “Bánh Mì”,” phá lấu”, especially scale and snails…

sorry for my bad english ^!^.
if you come to HCMC VN, send me an email to : emxinh2022000@gmail.com , i am willing to help you discover our cuisines and culture.

]]> By: LT https://uncorneredmarket.com/snackin-in-saigon/#comment-469712 Mon, 15 Oct 2012 19:38:27 +0000 http://uncorneredmarket.com/2007/02/saigon-eats/#comment-469712 I am glad that you enjoy Vietnamese cuisines. However, if you think district 1 has it good, wait till you venture outside a little further. It only gets better. Tourist district only has copies of the original 😉

]]> By: Sam https://uncorneredmarket.com/snackin-in-saigon/#comment-454953 Tue, 31 Jul 2012 10:25:09 +0000 http://uncorneredmarket.com/2007/02/saigon-eats/#comment-454953 Be a ware of ask the price before you order everything otherwise they will double price you

]]> By: Daniel Noll https://uncorneredmarket.com/snackin-in-saigon/#comment-454961 Tue, 31 Jul 2012 07:29:34 +0000 http://uncorneredmarket.com/2007/02/saigon-eats/#comment-454961 @Sam: Thank you. Very good advice, no matter where you happen to travel, including Vietnam. Always ask the price beforehand.

]]> By: Daniel Noll https://uncorneredmarket.com/snackin-in-saigon/#comment-13447 Thu, 08 Apr 2010 12:44:28 +0000 http://uncorneredmarket.com/2007/02/saigon-eats/#comment-13447 @pras: You are quite welcome. We’ll look forward to hearing what you’ve found when you return from Vietnam.

]]> By: pras https://uncorneredmarket.com/snackin-in-saigon/#comment-13420 Thu, 08 Apr 2010 08:15:13 +0000 http://uncorneredmarket.com/2007/02/saigon-eats/#comment-13420 Thanks for taking the time out, Daniel. All useful tips. Will write back to you when we get back from Vietnam.
Cheers!
Pras

]]> By: Daniel Noll https://uncorneredmarket.com/snackin-in-saigon/#comment-13168 Sun, 04 Apr 2010 19:12:51 +0000 http://uncorneredmarket.com/2007/02/saigon-eats/#comment-13168 @pras: At this point, I can’t recommend specific people to contact in Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC). I can highly recommend to do what we did when we were in HCMC / Saigon:
1) Go to Quan An Ngon. We write about the Hanoi outpost (which, surprisingly, we found to be better than the Saigon one) here:
https://uncorneredmarket.com/2007/01/taste-of-hanoi/
If you could get your hands on a copy of their menu, that would help. A nice tidy intro to Vietnamese cuisine.
2) Spend a lot of time at Ben Thanh market, both for lunch and dinner. I could have spent years in that place. It will afford an education in Vietnamese food dishes as well as the ingredients that go into them.
3) Visit a few of the street soup stalls in the vicinity of Ben Thanh. Soups are absolutely essential to understanding Vietnamese cuisine. The area is also a great place to get your Vietnamese coffee fix…right across the street from the hotel below.
4) If you need a place to stay, we stayed at Nymph. And as far as budget places go, it was great:
https://uncorneredmarket.com/2007/02/saigon-first-impressions/
I’m assuming you’ve read our other post about food in Hoi An:
https://uncorneredmarket.com/2007/02/hoi-an-eats/
We refer to the cooking lessons at Red Bridge school in Hoi An (but beware: the classes were not particularly interactive, at least when we took them). There’s a link to them here:
https://uncorneredmarket.com/2007/02/hoi-an-first-impressions/

]]> By: pras https://uncorneredmarket.com/snackin-in-saigon/#comment-12983 Fri, 02 Apr 2010 17:01:19 +0000 http://uncorneredmarket.com/2007/02/saigon-eats/#comment-12983 Hi Daniel,
Love your website/lifestyle. I’m a fan of your facebook page too.

I have a quick favour right now though. I’m traveling to Vietnam (Saigon & Hoi An) next week with my gf and a friend. We are going there to get a feel of the promised land (for me, at least.. been yearning to go there forever) and specifically for the FOOD. We’re going to learn more about the cuisine to hopefully incorporate in a small restaurant that I’m planning to open back home. It’s been a lifelong dream – and its finally happening.

So I was wondering if you guys could point me to someone/people you have met there (especially in HCMC) who is reliable and can guide us in the right direction with respect to cooking lessons and generally navigating the city’s chaos.

Any references would be of great help.
Thanks.

Pras

]]> By: Daniel Noll https://uncorneredmarket.com/snackin-in-saigon/#comment-1929 Mon, 08 Dec 2008 23:28:28 +0000 http://uncorneredmarket.com/2007/02/saigon-eats/#comment-1929 @waloshi: Glad you enjoy them.

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