Tuesday, November 08, 2005

Vietnamese Food Rocks!

Vietnamese food in Singapore is really not very nice. Vietnamese food in other cities are way better than whatever we can get here. Perhaps the good Vietnamese chefs prefer to earn their wages in euro and USD. 

In Vietnam, of course I want to eat nothing else but Vietnamese food, or French-inspired interpretations, what they term as 'Indochine cuisine'. There're the fancy restaurants and the usual eateries. Plenty of choices.

However, I want something less fancy, like a bowl of pho. A bowl of pho in Ho Chi Minh City generally costs VND$5,000 (~S$0.60). At a chain of Pho 24 which obviously caters to tourists, a bowl costs VND$24,000 (~S$3) and taste exactly like the crappy ones in Singapore. *faint* Just get out to the street stalls. They serve way better pho. Mmm. I found all happiness out there by the streets.

13 comments:

Anonymous said...

viet food in vancouver's delish too. come try it! no thanksgiving this year eh?

Anonymous said...

oooh, i love viet food!!! and this looks sooo good!!!

Anonymous said...

i really have to get used to all these varieties of asian food. to me, it looks so odd..but some turn out to taste so divine!

Anonymous said...

looking at HCMC, i never figured that it's got so many nooks and crannies. you practically know them all!! i suppose you will. you've been there like 10thousand times.

Anonymous said...

remind me why i love asia.

Anonymous said...

i've tried that chain. it kinda sucks.i rather eat at the restaurants which look upmarket,but not that expensive.

did you try the French food? it's fantastic!

Anonymous said...

french colony saigon is. and the french food is still fabulous. very reasonably priced too. it's so tough to find cheap french food.

Anonymous said...

I can't wait to go Vietnam! But hor...based on what you write, I am wondering if I would like the food there! Coz I'm quite happy with the viet food here :p Sydney has really good Viet food too methinks.

Anonymous said...

viet food is really quite good.but i have to agree those in singapore sucks.big time.

Anonymous said...

i think the shopping in bangkok is still much better.vietnam doesn't really have anything that i want.except for all those embroidered silk stuff which aint exactly cheap. cheaper than Lim's at Holland V anyway.

fuchsiacow said...

which is your 2nd home? =p

hearing of all your travel tales makes me wanna go travel too.

Anonymous said...

2nd home-bangkok. imp lived there solid for a year and then kept going back ever so frequently after.now still.

if you dig french food,vietnam's french food's really quite authentic. their pork medallions are done so so beautifully. soft,tender,flavorful.

Anonymous said...

vietnam's still less crowded compared to bangkok. shopping for furniture in vietnam is a pleasure. but not for clothes though. that's quite sucky.