What to eat and Travel Tips (Part 8): Best Vietnamese Food in Sai Gon

Saigon is famous for its diverse and delicious street food. If visiting Saigon, you should try at least 3 of all below dishes.

Rice Noodle Food (Hu Tieu): It is also one of Saigon's specialities. Saigon people mainly eat the dish in the morning or evening, rarely eat at noon.

Address:

Lien Hua restaurant,
Nhan Quan restaurant,
Hu Tieu Nam Vang Quynh restaurant…
The price of each bowl is 30 - 40k / bowl.

Broken rice with grilled pork chop, shredded pork skin, pork pie. This is a famous dish of Saigon people, if you ignore this dish, it will definitely be regretful.

Address:

111 Nguyen Phi Khanh Street, 1 District.
67 Tran Huy Lieu Street, Phu Nhuan District.
Ba Ghien Restaurant, Phu Nhuan District.

Goby Fish Hot Pot (Lẩu cá kèo) is a dish with typical Southern flavor. Vegetables served with Goby Fish hotpot include spinach and bitter vegetables, banana flower ...

Address:

No. 4 Nguyen Thi Dieu, Ward 6, District 3;
Restaurants on Su Thieu Chieu Street.

Southern Vietnamese crepe (Bánh xèo) is filled with shrimp, pork, bean sprouts, eggs and served with sweet and sour fish sauce and lots of vegetables.

Address:

46A Dinh Cong Trang Street, 10 District;
190 Nam Ky Khoi Nghia Street, 3 District;
74 Suong Nguyen Anh, 1 District.

Snail dishes: Snail dishes are very diverse with more than 20 different types such as stir-fried tamarind, Thai steamed, boiled, fried garlic, stir-fried water spinach ...

Address:

132 Nguyen Thai Hoc Street;
189 To Hien Thanh Street;
23 Nguyen Van Giai;
237/50 Tran Van Dang Street…

Southern sweet is very disverse, from hot ones such as Ba Ba sweet soup, banana sweet soup, taro sweet soup to cold ones such as black bean sweet soup, mixed sweet soup, Hue sweet soup...