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Top 10 Delicious Dishes in Ho Chi Minh City - Explore Real Asia

Top 10 Delicious Dishes in Ho Chi Minh City - Explore Real Asia

April 27, 2021

Ho Chi Minh City is home to the population of all regions of the country. So the cuisine here is extremely diverse from typical Southern dishes to dishes imported from all over the country. In this article, Explore Real Asia will introduce to you delicious dishes in Ho Chi Minh City that you should taste at least once. 


Fish Sauce Vermicelli, Hotpot (Bún Mắm, Lẩu mắm)

The best fish sauce hotpot must go to the West (Can Tho, Vinh Long, Long An). However, if you do not have time, you can enjoy the hot pot sauce right in Saigon. The most important hot pot sauce is the broth, which must be made from delicious fish sauce, skillfully seasoning to taste. Saigon fish sauce hotpot often has spinach, spinach, water lily, okra, mint, banana popcorn, and light vegetables.

Some famous addresses: Nam Bo sauce hotpot 94AB Cao Thang, Ward 4, District 3, price: 160,000 - 240,000 VND; Fish sauce hotpot is commend: 11 Ho Bieu Chanh, Ward 12, Phu Nhuan district, price: Hot pot sauce: 210,000 - 300,000VND.

Like hot pot sauce, broth is the most important ingredient of the fish sauce vermicelli. The delicious noodle bowl is not too sweet, too salty or spicy. It's not bland, especially the aroma of the fish sauce is indispensable. Eating noodles with fish paste, roasted pork, shrimp, squid, a plate of raw vegetables with bitter vegetables, banana, rice noodles, water lilies, and aromatic basil is indispensable. Some restaurants score extra points thanks to the very attractive sweet and sour tamarind fish sauce bowl.

Some famous addresses: Bun Mam Huynh Lam (inherited Bac Lieu), 37A Go Dau, Tan Phu District: 28,000VND / bowl; Bun Mam 444 - 369 Le Quang Dinh, Ward 5, Binh Thanh District, is open from 9am to 9pm daily, except for the full moon day and the 1st, priced at 35,000VND / bowl, vermicelli 528 Phan Van Tri, Dist. Go Vap, price 30,000 VND / bowl.


Hot pot sauce is among delicious dishes in Ho Chi Minh City
Hot pot sauce is among delicious dishes in Ho Chi Minh City

 


Bun Bo Hue

Bun Bo Hue is one of the specialties of Hue. It has also become one of the most popular dishes in Ho Chi Minh City for a long time. In the broth of vermicelli, Hue people often add a little fish sauce, contributing to their very own flavor.

 

Bun Bo Hue - One of the most favoured dishes in Ho Chi Minh City
Bun Bo Hue - One of the most favoured dishes in Ho Chi Minh City


You can easily enjoy this popular dish in many streets in Saigon, priced from 20,000 VND / bowl. Some famous addresses: Bun Bo Thanh Noi Hue, 47A Tran Cao Van, District 3 (near the roundabout of Con Rua lake); Bun Dong Ba Hue beef, 110A Nguyen Du, Ben Thanh Ward, District 1


Goby Hotpot

Goby hotpot is a dish with a characteristic Southern flavor. The goby hotpot dish is often cooked with giang leaves to create a characteristic sour, acrid taste. Vegetables used with goby hot pot include spinach, light vegetables and bitter vegetables, bean sprouts, banana flowers ... With attractive aroma of vegetables and typical spices, the pot of goby fish hot pot will be fragrant and unforgettable.


Some famous addresses: No. 4 Nguyen Thi Dieu, Ward 6, District 3, goby hotpot restaurants on Su Thien Chieu Street.

 

A delicious goby hotpot is among the top-rated dishes in Ho Chi Minh City
A delicious goby hotpot is among the top-rated dishes in Ho Chi Minh City

 


Mì hủ tiếu Hoành Thánh

These dishes, although not native, now also become a feature among dishes in Ho Chi Minh City. For the people of Saigon, this dish is easy to eat and quite popular. However, for the Northern people, this dish has a slightly sweet taste, and may not be used when enjoyed for the first time. The noodle shops are available on any street, alleyway of Saigon with prices from 20,000 VND / bowl.

 

Mì hủ tiếu Hoành Thánh are popular dishes in Ho Chi Minh City
Mì hủ tiếu Hoành Thánh are popular dishes in Ho Chi Minh City


Some famous addresses: Noodles on Mac Thi Buoi Street (District 1), Chicken Fish Noodles on Ton That Dam Street (District 1), Yellow Noodles on Hai Thuong Lan Ong Street (District 5 noodle soup 46/102 Vo Van Tan, District 3, Potato Duck Noodles on Pham Van Hai Street (Tan Binh District), Uncle Tac Noodles: 22 Ba Huyen Thanh Quan, District 3.


Bánh Tráng Trảng Bàng

This is the dish of Tay Ninh people. In addition to the frost-dried rice paper, there are also banh canh, rice paper with boiled pork, boiled beef, along with many typical vegetables and seasoning sauce of Westerners.

Some famous addresses: You can eat Trang Bang rice paper in Hoang Ty's stores, or Trảng Bàng 411 - 413 Nguyen Tri Phuong, District 10 rice paper.


Bánh Tráng Trảng Bàng - One of the dishes in Ho Chi Minh City that you should try
Bánh Tráng Trảng Bàng - One of the dishes in Ho Chi Minh City that you should try


Cu Chi Steer

The soft and sweet beef wrapped with fresh vegetables from the South and rice paper, eaten with sweet and sour sauce mixed very well, has made the famous Cu Chi steer specialty. Currently, many restaurants in Saigon have served this dish, but diners have yet to find a place that can match the original steer in Cu Chi.

Some famous addresses: Xuan Dao silk beef shop - Go straight on Highway 22, Cross the Trung Chanh intersection and reach the Cu Chi overpass, look at the right hand side you will see Xuan Dao silk beef shop, Cu Chi district; Hong Dao silk cow is also on Highway 22 but on the left hand side.


Cu Chi steer dishes in Ho Chi Minh City are really worth your time
Cu Chi steer dishes in Ho Chi Minh City are really worth your time

 


Southern Pancakes

Pancakes have golden crust on the outside, inside with shrimp, meat, bean sprouts, molded into a circle or folded into a semi-circle. Southern pancakes have eggs, when eaten with sweet and sour fish sauce and a variety of vegetables and leaves at the garden. At some restaurants, people add mushrooms to make pancakes to eat very delicious and less boring.

Some famous addresses: 46A Dinh Cong Trang, District 1; Muoi Xem, 190 Nam Ky Khoi Nghia, Ward 6, District 3; Eat Is Ghetto, 74 Suong Nguyet Anh, Ben Thanh Ward, District 1.


Southern Pancakes - Signature dishes in Ho Chi Minh City
Southern Pancakes - Signature dishes in Ho Chi Minh City


Spring Rolls

Materials to have a quality spring roll must be complete: vegetables, vermicelli, shrimp, bacon and of course, a flexible rice paper roll is indispensable to roll outside. However, the main thing to feel a delicious salad is its sauce ingredients. Southerners often use dipping salad with black sauce because it has a sweet taste, plus peanuts and sour food. Spring roll is popular, so familiar but leaves 1 of the 50 best dishes in the world voted by CNN. Spring rolls are widely sold in street vendors, toad shops, markets and supermarkets for only 3,000 VND / roll.

Some addresses for you: Sidewalk of Le Van Tam Park (Hai Ba Trung street), BigC supermarket, Coopmart supermarket ...

 

Spring rolls - One of the most delicious dishes in Ho Chi Minh City
Spring rolls - One of the most delicious dishes in Ho Chi Minh City


Snails

Saigon snail restaurant is a common term, because there are many other types of seafood there. Getting together to eat snails is also to enjoy a rich world of mollusks and crustaceans, from clams, scallops, snails, mussels, to crabs, crabs, squid, and shrimp.There are enough ways to cook in Saigon to eat. Snails are always attractive, from steamed, boiled, fried, fried, roasted to baked, baked with all kinds of spices such as garlic, onions, pepper, chili, coriander, lemongrass, ginger, basil, cheese, butter.

Some famous addresses: Oc Dao 2- 132 Nguyen Thai Hoc, District 1; Oc Quang Anh, 189 To Hien Thanh, Ward 13, District 10; Oc No. 9, 23 Nguyen Van Giai, Ward Da Kao, District 1; Snail Co Hong, Alley 177, 3/2 Street, District 10; Oc Xinh, 002 Lot B5, Ward 3, internal road 12B, Khanh Hoi, District 4; Vietnamese Oc: 237/50 Tran Van Dang, Ward 11, District 3.


Traveling to Saigon and do not forget to enjoy the delicious snail dishes
Traveling to Saigon and do not forget to enjoy the delicious snail dishes


Sweet Soup

Southern sweet soup is very diverse, from hot sweet soup such as Ba Ba sweet soup, banana sweet soup, taro sweet soup to cold sweet soup like black bean sweet soup, mixed sweet soup, Hue sweet soup. The coconut milk is greasy, and the sweetness of the ingredients.

Sweet Soup

Some famous addresses: Ky Dong tea, 153/7 Ky Dong, Ward 9, District 3; Ha Ky, 140 Chau Van Liem, District 5; Southern tea 16 / 1A Dinh Tien Hoang, Ward Da Kao, District 1; Tea tray 12 dishes - No. 032 Lot H, apartment Ngo Gia Tu, Su Van Hanh street, District 10.