Thursday, December 31, 2009

Street Food in Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam

Ben Thanh market is definitely the center point for tourist as well as locals in Ho Chi Minh. With a complete range of daily needs in here, from vegetables, fruit, coffee, to the tourist artifact, such as paintings, T-Shirt, it is where all the people flock, either for shopping or just to kill time.

There are many traditional Vietnamese food stall inside the market, which is definitely for the strong stomach. And if you still around once the market close at 5:30pm, the road circling the market transformed into night market, complete with street food vendor.
Bánh Bèo Huế: Vietnamese Rice Cake, Huế style, served with spices, slice of ham and cut of sausage. Taste a little bit bouncy and refreshing.


Bún bò Huế, another Huế-style dishes. Served with rice noodle and, as with other Vietnamese dishes, generous amount of vegetables.

Chao Tom, shrimp paste rolled on sugar cane stick. It is served on top of server, and eaten with lettuce, mint, and rice paper. There are many variant of this food


Cỏi Cuốn, a typical Vietnamese Spring Roll

1 comments:

Ravenous Couple said...

all these dishes are fantastic! glad you can enjoy these..Quan An Ngon is another great place to eat.