What To Eat And Where to Find It. After two winters of stuffing my face around this city I love, I thought I would put together a guide to Saigon street food, gathering some of the places I keep coming back to in one place. How To Keep Leather Chairs From Cracking Crab' title='How To Keep Leather Chairs From Cracking Crab' />These are not the absolute best of everything, but rather a cross section of delicious, cheap and authentic foods that are also conveniently located. I tended to head to outer districts more often, on the hunt for that bun mam a friend told me about, or what was billed as the best Peking duck in town by my enthused landlady. While fun side trips to outer districts are great, I wanted to put together a post that would be more helpful for short term trips. The restaurants and street stalls below are fairly central to where most travellers stay, meaning people can frequent them even if in town only briefly. This post was most recently updated in August 2. One specific soup, a sweet and sour canh chua photo in the street food section below, was what initially led me to the city. I was lured in by the complicated tastes and unfamiliar sting of the rice paddy herb on my tongue. It might have been one soup that brought me to Saigon, but it was the rest of the food that kept me there, and keeps me coming back. It is not just taste of food that makes Saigon so enthralling, but the act of eating as well, and all of the craziness that eating comprises. The swirling noise, the families all sitting and enjoying a meal on the street, smiling at you fumbling with your condiments. The beauty of food being not just a necessity but also a sight in and of itself a window into culture, and a source of endless wonder. Countless moments of me smiling as an old lady came over shaking her head at my terrible rice paper folding skills, correcting my technique as we sat at the edge of traffic. Or the bo la lot vendor who discovered my love of starfruit and made sure to have extra on hand when I returned. How To Keep Leather Chairs From Cracking Crab' title='How To Keep Leather Chairs From Cracking Crab' />The beloved grandpa at the pho ga restaurant below, who ran over to my bowl repeatedly to ensure I added pickled garlic, lest I forget. The landladies that adopted me into their homes, feeding me, giving me hugs, teaching me how to cook. There are hundreds of moments like these baked into the aggregate of my memories in Vietnam. Shop for childrens folding chair you will love online at Target. Free shipping and save 5 every day with your Target REDcard. After two winters of stuffing my face around this city I love, I thought I would put together a guide to Saigon street food, gathering some of the places I keep. Ian Hobbs is the MGC Register Secretary. TOP TOOL TIP There were several answers to a query from an owner on the MG Experience MGC Forum about setting the tappets. Most of them derive from food. As Luke Nguyen says in The Songs of Sapa Stories Recipes from Vietnam,This is not an exhaustive list, but hopefully it provides a good start. For those of you who loved your time in Vietnam and want to commemorate it at home with something a bit more tangible, please see my hand drawn, one of a kind Vietnamese maps of food. Theyre available in t shirt and poster form. Note I also realize some of you would have preferred diacritical marks in lieu of plain Roman letters, but when typing into Google Maps to find these places, most travellers have indicated they prefer the non Tieng Viet script. Im happy to update the post if this is no longer the case. Also, if youre worried about street food heres how to eat it without getting sick. Saigon is most definitely a magical place for your tastebuds. Heres the perfect gift for the special someone in your life who cant afford a Lamborghini, but likes to dress and accessorize like they can a 2,450 Alpha. 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Part of the cuisine from central Vietnam, banh beo literally water fern cake are small round discs of rice flour, formed to look like lily flower pads found in the estates surrounding the old imperial city of Hue. Topped with crunchy pork rinds and toasted shrimp powder and served with fish sauce, they are a very rewarding dish to share as they usually come in multiples of 8 or 1. Where Nam Giao. 13. How To Make Internet Speed Faster Vista. Le Thanh Ton Street, in an alleyway behind Ben Thanh market. District 18. 4 8 3. Banh Da Xuc Hen Banh Da Xuc Hen in all its delicious glory. I have a list of foods that sound like other foods in the local language. For example, the word for water in Bahasa Indonesia or Bahasa Malaysia is air and obviously air in English is not food. In Vietnamese, the word for baby clams is hen quite confusing at first, since I ordered it expecting a rice and chicken bowl, not even thinking that obviously hen would not be an actual hen. My brain did not compute. Banh da xuc hen is a lovely and satisfying snack. A large rice paper crisp with hints of sesame and coconut arrives on a plate. It looks bare, but then you lift up the rice cracker and peek underneath, finding a pile of teeny tiny clams fried in lemongrass, rau ram Vietnamese coriander, chilli, onion and garlic. It is a simple dish in terms of ingredients but the taste is profoundly different than anything else I have tried. If you want a heavier version of this plate, opt for the com hen, rice topped with the same type of clams and served with a small bowl of clam broth on the side. Where Hong Hanh. A Nguyen Thi Minh Khao Street, District 18. Banh Canh Cua. Crabtastic. Banh canh noodles are Vietnams version of udon, a thicker noodle that can be made with either tapioca flour, rice flour, or a combination of the two. The cua in this soup is crab, and the result is a viscous crab soup with thick noodles not for those who shrink from goopy foods. Thickened with tapioca flour and thus gluten free its a satisfying meal for those who like their food consistencies to be adventurous, and with chillies, green onions, and fresh lime on top, a very tasty bowl. Where Kim Long 8. Tran Quang Dieu Street, District 38. Banh Cuon. Banh cuon on the streets of Saigon. Fried mung bean cakes, available at Banh Cuon Tay Ho. Steamed rice crepes filled with wood ear mushrooms and ground pork often seasoned with white pepper, banh cuon are a wonderful breakfast meal that covers all bases. Id take this for breakfast over eggs and bacon any day, to the consternation of Western friends. But why not Youve got your carbs, your meat, your vegetables, and it comes topped with lightly steamed bean sprouts, chopped basil, and fried curls of shallots. Its filling but not heavy, peppery but not too spicy. The dish literally translates to rolled cake, and originated up North, but is prevalent throughout Saigon. Each bite can be dipped into a sweet fish sauce with as much chilli as youd like to add. When heading to the restaurant below, also try the fried bean cakes photo below. Bonus points for the cutest chilli holder in all of Saigon. Cutest chilli bottle in all of Saigon. Where Banh Cuon Tay Ho 1. Dinh Tien Hoang Street, District 1. Banh Khot Banh Xeo. Banh khot, without the herbs you wrap these mini pancakes in, then shove in your drooling mouth. Banh xeo, crispy and delicious. I wrote about banh khot mini knots of fried rice cakes with a recipe here, but am grouping them with banh xeo larger sizzling rice crepes since the restaurant serves both. There are many recommendations in town for banh xeo, most famously Banh Xeo 4. A, which is on the Bourdain trail he visited the place during his Saigon episode.