Let’s try some delicious dishes and discover the art of cuisine in Ho Chi Minh City.
Vietnamese Crepe
Vietnamese Crepe is a famous nosh in Ho Chi Minh City. This is the rice pancake folded in half and filled with shrimps, meat and soya bean sprouts. The dish is best served with gently pungent fish sauce.
Southern Beef Noodle Soup
Southern Beef Noodle Soup is made of rice vermicelli and beef. The rice vermicelli is so cold yet the baked beef is so hot and tastes strong. The dish is best served with sweet and sour fish sauce, peanuts, fried onions and fresh vegetables like bean sprouts, salad, balm – mints and cilantro. The dish tastes gently sweet and sour. This dish can be enjoyed in the afternoon and the evening.s
Goby Fish Soup
Goby Fish Soup is very popular in Southern Vietnam. The consommé cooked with the leaves called ‘Giang’ which is only available in the south tastes gently sour and sweet and small plump goby folks taste sweet and gently greasy. The dish is best served with banana flower vegetables.
Com Tam – ‘Broken Rice’
‘Broken rice’ is as famous as ‘Pho’ better known as Beef Noodles in Hanoi. Broken rice is available everywhere from casual sidewalk eateries to elegant restaurants. Broken rice is also considered as one of the most famous traditional dishes in Ho Chi Minh City. Broken rice is cooked rice made of fractured rice grains. The dish is best served with grilled ribs, fried eggs, pork skin mixed with powdery fried rice, fish sauce, fried onion and sour salted stuffs.
Seasoned and sauté beef noodles
Noodles cooked with seasoned and sauté beef is well liked by Southern folks. The consommé tastes sweet and contains chopped meat, meat on the bone or meat balls. The dish is best served with fresh vegetables like bean sprouts, Chinese chives, fried onions and garlic, and so forth. This dish is usually used for breakfast.
Southern Porridge
Southern folks like having a hot bowl of ‘Che Thung’ better known as southern porridge in the afternoon. The dish is made of potatoes, coconut essence and red beans.