Street Food!

I don't need a proper sit-down dinner in Vietnam. I can just snack and it'll suffice.

Finally, I gave in to my cravings and went out to look for certain foods at the roadside stalls. I've eaten them along the roads of HCMC and Hanoi and the tummy had no problems. Vũng Tàu's food shouldn't give me any grief either.

I couldn't resist those beautiful loaves. I finally walked over to a stall by the road and bought a bread roll (bánh mì). That bread was cold and crispy on the brown, but soft and delicious on the white! The filling could have been anything and it'd still taste great. This one had some char siew looking thingy and lots of veggies and tomatoes.

Then I went over to the stall by the drain that sold those huge steamed paus (bánh bao) and got one. This particular seller puts tiny eggs in his buns! I wasn't sure, but it could be quail eggs!

The not-so-good bit- the meats used for both were pork. Across the country, the filling used is generally pork. Some are eeeky, some are bearable. Whatever. Here, the ones I picked out had the meats cooked quite interestingly and mixed with the flour of bread and bun till it didn't quite taste like pork. So tonight, I was thrilled to eat something I actually like for dinner!

Forget the seafood and everything else. Those are just things I don't mind eating or I've to eat for sustenance. Aside from the pho which I enjoy, tonight's meal of bánh mì and bánh bao is, I proclaim, my best meal in Vũng Tàu.