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With a view to restricting the use of personal vehicles, the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Planning and Architecture and a Spanish company have completed their feasibility study on the creation of pedestrian streets in the downtown section of the city. If the idea is approved by the city People’s Committee, it will be [...]
Quan An Ngon 138 Nam Ky Khoi Nghia, Dist 1 Tel: 829 9449 Vietnam House Restaurant 93-95 Dong Khoi, Dist 1 Tel: 8291623 Dong Du 57 Dong Du, Dist 1 Tel: 8295045 Bach Duong (LA TAVERNE) 29 Le Quy Don, Dist 3 Tel: 930 8180 Ancient Town 211 Dien Bien Phu, Dist 3 Tel: 8299625 [...]
ADDRESS: 19 Lam Son Square, Dist I, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam TEL: 84-8 8234999 FAX: 84-8 8243999 EMAIL: hotel@caravellehotel.vnn.vn WEBSITE: http://www.caravellehotel.com SHORT DESCRIPTION : The Caravelle Hotel prides itself on offering traditional refinement in an ambiance that is welcoming, warm and offering luxurious modern living in sophisticated and understated elegant surrounds. Whether your stay [...]
“No rushing!” the younger male member of the family running this more than 30-year-old shop in Saigon’s District 1 barked at our friend My when she gently inquired as to the whereabouts of our meal. We’d been waiting more than 15 minutes for two orders of hủ tiếu cá — rice noodle soup with fish — [...]
Here’s Some Saigon Streetfood Not Even Noodlepie Has Scoffed! (Vietnamese Kebabs) ALTHOUGH TO BE FAIR TO NOODLEPIE HE HAS DOCUMENTED THE KEBAB SCENE IN FRANCE AND APPARENTLY HASN’T LIVED IN VIETNAM FOR SOME TIME, SO HE CAN BE EXCUSED FOR FALLING OUT OF TOUCH WITH THE STREETS. I first became alerted to the Indochinese kebab [...]
WHEN I LIVED IN SYDNEY ONE OF MY FAVOURITE MEALS WAS CHICKEN LAKSA. It was right up there with Oporto Portuguese chicken as one of my favourite lunchtime scoffs. Back in those days the Malaysian/Singaporean/Chinese takeout joints in the city served their chicken laksa in tall round plastic containers with the thin thin noodles at [...]
BANH TRANG HAS BEEN CALLED THE VIETNAMESE EQUIVALENT OF RAVIOLI SKINS”: IT IS THE THIN TRANSLUCENT RICE PAPER THEY WRAP VIETNAMESE SPRING ROLLS IN. Since even people in the reluctant West go for sping rolls, banh trang is eternally popular. The basic idea is to wrap banh trang around some meat and a suprisingly wide [...]
VIETNAM IS ONE COFFEE LOVING NATION, AND CONSEQUENTLY, CAFES ARE UBIQITIOUS. Starting the day with a bowl of pho soup and a glass of strong black Vietnamese coffee is the best way to go in this part of the world. And while there might not be many (or any?) Starbucks Coffee Shops to be found [...]
WAY BACK IN 2005 ONE JAPANESE GUY POSTED ON HIS BLOG WORDS TO THIS EFFECT: “BETONAMU NI WA, MAKUDONARUDO GA NAI KEDO, LOTTERIA GA ARU!” (“IN VIETNAM THERE IS NO MCDONALD’S — HOWEVER, THERE IS LOTTERIA!”) It is a strange quirk of history and fate that if you visit Vietnam today, the only chain place [...]
THERE IS SUPPOSED TO BE A DEARTH OF GOOD THAI FOOD IN HO CHI MINH CITY. Which seems kind of strange of me, given the proximity of Thailand to the southern Vietnamese city (only an hour by plane, via Bangkok’s bustling Suvarmabhumi Airport), and the very real interest in Thai cuisine amongst young Ho Chi [...]