Enjoy 11 popular street dishes in Saigon

Just steps down the sidewalk any path in Saigon, you can easily enjoy good food but very simple as: dry beef salad, noodle soup or noodle soup …

1. Dried beef salad

Dried beef salad is a simple dish, easy to prepare. Go eat dried beef salad did not have to wait long. Just order something already having a salad plate colorful cow dry but tasty. Dry cows to eat salad with papaya cells.

Papaya fibroblasts, in brine to remove pus in increased brittleness. The top is decorated by a few stalks chopped laksa leaves, taste and create elegant eye-catching colors, to add some roasted peanuts crispy golden rum.

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Papaya salad with dried beef over losing each other in the mixed salad, flavored water every place has its own secret. Salad sauce usually containing between vinegar, soy sauce and pepper. Phase depending on the dose of good or bad taste. Eating salad dry cows not see it, very mild stomach that stimulates appetite.

Read How to make Kohlrabi and jerky salad?

2. “Phá Lấu”

With gourmet snacks in Saigon, one can not ignore that i “Phá Lấu” with cow’s intestine, a popular dish but the charm hard to resist. This sidewalk dishes appeal to all generations, from her pupil, to the office and the elderly population. “Phá Lấu” so popular that you can see in any populated areas or schools.

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“Phá Lấu” has been made of the stomach and small intestine, lung, liver, heart … with a very simple twist of spice marinated in which the five tastes flavor is, then fried and boiled until soft. Coconut milk is the main material of the long break, so sweet and fat pot of stew. The secret of “Phá Lấu” dish is the heating time and add water to the small intestine with soft taste. When that water is both color and slightly thick can be used.

3. Stir-fry corn

For the long time, stir-fry corn dish is familiar to many people, especially young people. Is made simple with corn, fried shrimp and onion with a little butter, but the flavor of it is that many people can not take your heart.

The processing of this dish is very fast and simple, seller cooked corn for delicious, use a knife to get all corn seeds from the pulp. When customers buy, seller quickly add a little oil to the pan and heat, corn, a little butter to fry, and then for few cloves roasted and chopped green onion, stir quickly and scoop out of the box, add a little hot sauce to dish more charming.

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Shoveling a spoon stir-fry corn into your mouth and the feeling is: fresh, soft, mix in the butter fat, the crispy fried shrimp, greaves, aroma of onions all blend together to create a dish, charming, delicious.

4. Roasted sweet potatoes

This is a popular dish that is popular in the colder days. On the trolley is the baked potato booth with dark purple sweet potato red skin, round fat scented block complex on a charcoal stove.

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Holding a baked sweet potato, no one can hardly resist the appeal spread from fragrant yet available. Peel the outer shell, you will see the fire class sem sem gold, long, long, fragrant inside just broth blow, and then the back sniffed the aroma, enjoy the fleshy fleshy, juicy hard to describe it.

5. Rice Paper roast with quail’s eggs

Food derived from Da Lat city has quickly become the favorite food of Saigon teen. Ingredients of a cake baked eggs, including quail eggs, fat, minced meat, fried shrimp and rice paper is made from rice flour.

First, the cake is placed on the grill on a charcoal stove, for operating materials including non-egg on bread and spreading material evenly on the surface. Because baked cake is baked wafers, so the need to rotate the cakes were on hand to be cooked evenly and not burn.

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The seller usually on a little hot sauce to be more delicious cake. In the slightly chilly evening, just walk around town with my friends, just sip a baked cake scented fees, hot taste of chili is great.

6. “Canh Cua” Cake (crab-soup cake)

You can enjoy all kinds of “Bánh canh” in Saigon as: “bánh canh cua”, “bánh canh bò viên”, “bánh canh cá lóc”…

The fiber size of Crab-soup cake is big, long soft food with fried crab, shrimp, mushrooms and water slurry. Besides the red crab meat, sweet.


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Some addresses for your reference, mini crab cake soup at the Tran Khac Chan street (District 1), Vo Van Tan street (District 3), Vinh Vien street (District 10) …

7. Crab vermicelli

Noodle soup is a popular dish of the North is very popular in Saigon. Main ingredient of the dish is the crab crabs and snails. Soup is made from crab, crushed crab meat for crab pieces both soft and aromatic, melting in the mouth, over the tongue without being crushed in a bowl of noodles. There is also the familiar ingredients like nuts, rolls, tofu and a great piece of information.

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The broth is made from bone broth and boil snails water, then add rice wine vinegar. Crab vermicelli bowl screws with taste of rice wine vinegar, tomato red, yellow and sweet crunchy nuts with aromatic smell to make you irresistible. Comes with vegetable noodles disk is typical of the north, such as marjoram, basil slip and spinach (see Vietnamese Herbs and Veggies).

Learn How to cook Vermicelli with Crab sour soup?

8. Noodle soup

The processing is almost like crab vermicelli because are made from pig bone, ceramic crab, served with spinach, shrimp sauce … but noodle soup also has its own characteristics and where to be. It is a big bun, dai, vegetable slices, boiled, shrimp paste, tamarind juice, crab soup, crab rolls …

Unlike noodle soup, noodle soup without meat, main dish soup noodles sliced ​​pig is information about two fingers, drop the pot noodles and tomatoes cut into pieces, fried tofu, a slice rolls, crab tiles. General characteristics of the shops selling noodle soup pot loud, containing steaming hot noodle soup, brass containing boiled spinach, hash jars of peppers, shrimp paste, lemon juice, vinegar (or tamarind).

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Noodles used in this dish are big and tough fibers. The seller always drop noodle soup to cook, so the noodles soaked dark shrimp bricks. When selling to customers, the owner used the patch to draw a bowl of noodles, for a few pieces of information, tofu and spring, and then put up on a handful of boiled spinach, vegetables faint. Discretion, add shrimp paste (no procession sauce), lemon juice, bit hash chili and enjoy.

Read more about The Vietnamese Dry Noodles.

9. Pork and Prawn Roll

It is a mistake to not mention the simple Pork and Prawn Roll in the street vendors on the streets of Saigon. This dish is made from simple ingredients: rice paper, vegetables, noodles, shrimp, bacon, rolled back, and served with delicious gelatinous sauce cups.

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Once of each Pork and Prawn Roll is rolled skillfully and beautifully hidden behind the layer cake in red shrimp, green vegetables, white rice noodles … Sauce is a great addition for this street food (read Sauce – The soul of Vietnamese cuisine). Made from the same black with spices, sauces taste sweet, add peanuts and pickles, and embellished slightly spicy with a few pieces chili is right tone.

11. Bánh tráng trộn (The mix girdle-cake)

Girdle-cake material is exposed to frost, derived from Trang Bang – Tay Ninh. Seller chopped girdle-cake, mixed with the raw material dried beef, dried shrimp, egg, mango, laksa leaves, satay, shrimp salt and a few blueberries. If customers want to eat it possible for many blueberries or sour tamarind juice. This dish should not be so long as this cake will be soft, not good.

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Eat a piece of felt sweet bitter sweetness, fragrance and length of the dry, fleshy roasted peanut, additional egg is both fat and flavor. Cake mix is ​​not only delicious but also very cheap, consistent with students’ pockets. Each piece is priced from VND 6,000 to VND 10,000.