So after a whole day in Vietnam, I guess the food deserves a separate entry (and this will be a constant part of my travel entries).
Without further ado, here's a rundown of Vietnam's best dishes and drinks.
1. Lunch at Pho Hoa Restaurant in Pasteur Street. This quaint little resto, similar to many of our carinderias, is not the typical location for the best tasting Vietnamese food. As its name suggest, its main offers, or how we ask the servers, "your best tasting dish" or "what most people order here" are the different types of Pho Hoa or Vietnamese Noodle soup. Aside from the noodles, they have on your table, the wedding cake made out of sticky rice and tapioca (cassava), a variety of greens that you can drop on your piping hot noodles and lemons (
dayap). We never tried adding more greens (my travelmates have a different understanding of the food groups, which do not include veggies in any form) and lemons on our orders since we would like to taste the authenticity of the noodle soup.
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| Wedding cake |
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| Chicken Pho Hoa |
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| All meat Pho Hoa |
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| Beef Pho Hoa |
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| Vietnamese tea |
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| The Restaurant, Pho Hoa in Pastuer Street. |
Location: 176 Pasteur Street. Just ask the driver to drop you off to Pho Hoa restaurant at Pasteur Street. I believe they all know this by heart.
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Banh Trang Nuong. A crepe like street food we found near the Notre Dame Cathedral. Nothing is near to this food on our soil, but the best way to describe it is - a lumpia wrapper type heated in an coal stove with bits and pieces of carrots and greens, quail egg and hot sauce.
Location: Near the Notre Dame Cathedral
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| Banh Dang Truong |
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Banh Mi. A bread with different greens, liver pate, pork roll and ham inside. The bread is somewhat similar to a baguette, but it's mostly hollow in the middle. Smack on the middle of it are greens, liver pate, mayonnaise, prok roll, ham and hot sauce.
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| Classic Banh Mi |
Location: Everywhere. Try it along Pham Ngu Lao Road.
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Coffee. Vietnamese coffee is the best I have ever tasted. Two of my friends were able to get Weasel coffee (not so sure about the price) and we tried one of Vietnam's famous coffee shops, Trung Nguyen.
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| Weasel Coffee |
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| Milk with a hint of Coffee |
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| Success coffee |
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Ice cream. We got one each as tradition on our trips but we decided to take another one in Trung Nguyen as my buddy doesn't take coffee. Hands down to this dessert that capped off our Vietnam night.
location: Along Pham Ngu Lao road
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| Ice cream |
PS. I will never ever give justice to the Vietnamese food in this entry. Just see the reference pictures.
When doing food tour, you can taste a food as well as learn the history of the place.
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