Chau Hong Vo brown rice is produced by Le Quoc Viet hotel in Kien Giang. Photo: THU NGUYEN That rice rice is now searched on Google with only two pieces of information that are nowhere to be found. Ngo Van Ban wrote: “In the past, farmers did rice once a year, and there were crop failures in some years, so it was very important to store rice for eating. If the rice is not stored properly, or the rice rots or is damaged by floods, they will have to suffer hunger and thirst” (1). And by Do Do: “About 50 years ago, my hometown produced 1 rice crop a year, domestic rice varieties (Rice Gon Bot, Gon Se, Nang Huong…), long growing time, high energy. low yield, but resistant to pests and diseases, good drought, no matter what time of planting, wait for the cold north wind to blow on the new rice to flower” (2). Both of these information about Khanh Hoa rice are lame, but can be complementary: cotton rice is a weak photosensitive rice, only made at the end of the year to reap. It’s not like it’s waiting for the north wind to return like Mr. Do said. And Mr. Ban ignored the early rice crop that was done before the summer rice crop. While there was no god-nose rice, there were still local varieties of rice with shorter duration than cotton rice, even quite short days like three-moon rice. Only those rice varieties are not as delicious as cotton rice. When I “put my feet up” in the field, my hometown grew two rice crops – the god Nong rice crop and the six-month rice crop. There is no concept of winter-spring, summer-autumn, autumn-winter at all. It’s the South! Divine rice – a word that ordinary Vietnamese often confuse with Mr. Than Nong in China. The names of the men must not be confused, they must know that the name honors the agricultural profession – the sacred farming profession. The main occupation of the Vietnamese people in the past has been shaken until now. The time of the god of agriculture was also the beginning of the “green revolution” for which its father, Norman Borlaugh, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Until the land became “infertile” like the three-rice crop fields in Vietnam, no one thought, even the “conceptualism”, to give him the Nobel Prize. Red rice Cotton rice planted in the low foot fields is reaped before the wicker season. The foot of the fields that eat the water of the sky often grow melon rice. That red rice has completely disappeared. It is the type of rice that resists the north wind and also makes the growers lose their breath when they were still threshing rice, and was transformed by poets into “threating rice in the night of the moon”, the threshing machine of the land of ginseng yet. enter the South. The grain of rice loofah is very tough, once threshed, it cannot sing. Once, when the rice was in season, my grandfather from Tu Bong and Van Ninh brought it to Dong De, Nha Trang, and gave it to the family. At noon, having a separate meal, my brother and I wanted to cry why “what red rice did you eat today?”. I don’t know if the younger brother “goes back” to eat red rice anymore, but now in this world, red rice is not easy to get and eat, even if he wants to find it, he wants to cry. Bad news! When I grow up, I wonder why rice is so red. Yet there are many types of explanations, sales crap, and science. The ST Red Rice website explains: “The red color of rice is due to iron. When rice plants absorb iron in the soil up in the bran layer, that iron is iron stamen, colorless. When the rice is ripe, the red color gradually increases, through the drying process, iron stamen turns into iron tam to red, becoming a useful source of nutrients for humans” (3). People of science and technology are not “salty” with this explanation. However, the story of iron-rich red rice is the story of Ngoc Do Huong Dua rice, a specialty of Lap Vo district, Dong Thap province. The variety was born around 2015. According to the analysis results of Can Tho University, the iron content in this rice is up to 26.4mg/kg, equal to the iron content in 0.9kg beef. The quality of this rice is superior to Jasmine premium fragrant white rice. The question is, when will the world like to let farmers get rich? Before that, around 2013, a farmer in Oc Eo, Thoai Son, An Giang, restored red rice and named it Hong Ngoc Oc Eo 1, a type of seasonal rice that grows up to 9 months. After that, the author of the rice variety, teacher Danh Van Duong, continued to multiply and cross-breed to give birth to the variety Hong Ngoc Oc Eo 2, with a growth period of 150 days. At Oc Eo 3, there are only 100 days left until the quality of rice begins to be questioned! There is an explanation in favor of the genetics of the variety, saying that because the variety is rich in anthocyanin pigments, it is red. Anthocyanins are organic pigments of natural origin that exist in most higher plants and in some vegetables, flowers, fruits, and seeds with red to purple colors such as grapes, berries, cabbage, and cabbage. purple, perilla leaves, hibicut flowers, black beans, eggplant berries, glutinous rice, red rice… This explanation stands. Out of red rice to red rice The story of my two brothers crying when eating red rice is like that, recently, having a meal of broken rice with seasonal rice of Tu Viet, his son at home wondered: “What kind of rice is not white at all?” Saying that seems like a criticism, but eat like a tiger. Tu Viet broken rice is “born in heaven” broken rice, not broken rice that has gone through “beauty salon” by forced “breaking” method. It’s like the dwarves who dream of Snow White by stretching their legs. Broken rice in the season only needs a cup of mixed fish sauce that is both salty and sweet, a little salty and a little sweet, with pickles of radishes and carrots is enough to give a thumbs up. There is no need to “slack” anything between the “curfew time” of the epidemic season for the complicated “medical declaration” before entering the market or supermarket. Tu Viet, whose full name is Le Quoc Viet, is an agricultural engineer, an economic officer, and was almost “cut off” because of the “crazy season of rice”. Seasonal rice is generally a long-term rice variety that produces high-quality rice. Especially, the rice varieties for fragrant rice of Thailand and Cambodia are only grown in the foothills of the field for one crop to eat water. Once with his friend D.TC passing through the vast one-crop field of Cambodia, at the time of leaving the country, he seemed to say to himself: “Why doesn’t Vietnam teach Cambodia how to farm!” Unexpectedly, a little later, Cambodian rice won the world’s best rice award for three consecutive years from 2013. Back to broken rice season rice. It can also make another dish, porridge. Broken rice cooked with porridge is number 1, sausages of Huu Nghi sausages are number 1, the problem is that you can freely go to Ban Co market to find other delicious offal. Enough to have an “ecosystem” of porridge heart porridge than Cai Tac heart porridge far away. The story of broken rice in the season is still hot, and Tu Viet has launched a type of rice called Chau Hang Vo to the market. The people of this South are so strange, they run out of rice from Chau Hang Vo and then mango Chau Hang Vo. The name rice is read from Chau Hong shell – a kind of pink shell jade; Westerners used to call a grain of rice a pearl. The name mango is from Chau Nghe mango. Could it be that Ba Vuong farewell has been deeply ingrained in the daily life language of the people below? Tu Viet recounted: Recently, I met Ms. TK, who is originally from Can Tho, who only made Chau Hong-hulled seasonal rice. Mr. Viet quoted Ms. K. as saying: “I also like the name Chau Hong shell very much, but the people of Can Tho just like to call it Chau Hang Vo. When it comes to Chau Hang Vo rice, people immediately say that the rice is very delicious and doesn’t need much food. As I personally feel, eating rice is really healthy and strong like Mr. Xiang Vo, that’s why his grandparents called him Chau Hang Vo to emphasize the nature of the rice grain of heaven for the people of Can Tho. Rice cooked with brown rice in Chau Hong season is fragrant and flexible. Photo: THU NGUYEN The first time Vietnamese investment came to know about Chau Hang Vo’s seasonal rice variety was through the Soc Trang Rice Festival in 2011. The second time in 2018 through the story of an 82-year-old farmer, who used to work in shambles. The old man said that when he was young in the Miet Thu area, Kien Giang “has the Chau Hang Vo season rice variety with a characteristic aroma; If I go canoeing down the river, I will know when I pass a house that is cooking rice with Chau grade Vo rice.” Tu Viet worked hard to find seeds and bring them back to try. He said: “During the process of taking care of and cherishing the newly planted seeds, I found that the Chau Hang Vo variety has a slender, slightly elongated shape, most of the seeds have a swish tail, the husk is bright yellow but when soaked in water. It has a dark pink color because the bran layer (silk shell) is purple-red, if the bran layer is scraped, the rice grain is still light pink, not white like some other varieties. On Friday, after Ho Chi Minh City social distancing for 15 days, I received rice with many anecdotes from Tu Viet sent from Kien Giang. Rice consists of two types of brown and bran. Brown is dark red, milled rice is pink to yellow. Chau Hong brown rice with shell holds up to 2 countries, 1 rice is just cooked rice. While cooking with the rice cooker, the rice had a strong aroma. In the past, cooking with firewood must have a more unique aroma, especially when the water is boiling, open the lid of the rice cooker to check if the water is drained or not. The ancients still liked to save that “pearl milk” to nourish children and the elderly. Now, the “grandmother” of the rice cooker is better, but not like the old mother in the place of distilling rice water. Chau Hong brown rice has a soft, flexible shell. Eaten with braised pangasius slightly candy, above all delicious. Those who have the memory of the rice season are also rewarded with memories flowing from their hearts full of silt and nostalgia. You seem to be eating in the middle of the scene of planting, planting, harvesting, drying. Grinding and pounding rice. Scrubbing in the back garden to cook a pot of rice… (1) Ngo Van Ban, Traditional farming in the ancient land of Khanh Hoa, chapter IV (2) Do Do, Rice transplanting ceremony in Ninh Hoa, http://www.ninhhoatoday.net/stbkky78-1.asp (3) http://socrice.com/products/detail/32/gao-st-do

How to eat at night? Why swallow? How can you sleep with an indigestible food that is invincible. Broken rice must be cooked dry, even really dry, for the rice grains to come apart, and then there is a clump of fat, onion fat, ribs, eggs, skin… all indigestible things. Why are you still eating broken rice at night? Ask too much! Who is free to learn to answer those questions. Saigon people do not have the habit of asking questions. Ask a lot, get hungry! Time to run more rides, try to work one more shift, try to get this job done, maybe you can get an extra plate of rice. Try to finish painting the wall, sweep more roads or clean up a yard, earn a few dozen more and buy more shirts and notebooks for small stomachs. But the workers who work hard a day, day and night, there is no way to eat and drink, after eating a plate of rice, they do not run home when they are hungry. And the broken rice at night is delicious. Eating with anything is delicious, even eating rice is not as delicious! A plate of steamed white rice, drizzled with onion fat, sprinkled with chili fish sauce, and added a piece of sour food is delicious. If you add a slightly fried omelet, poke the yolk with a fork to break it, melt it into the rice, mix it with a spoon on that golden, viscous place filled with fish sauce, then there would be no better dish in the world. . Or there is a lump of ketchup with ketchup, take out a spoon and mix it with rice. As for ribs, skin, and cha, they are “classic” already. The great move “sampling rice” has made the name of Saigon broken rice. But the right ribs are fat ribs, grilled slightly, the fat melts down onto the embers, the smoke and fire cover a whole road, the sniffles of passersby are a unique “marketing” trick. People who work at night come home from work on an empty stomach, passing through that fragrant smoke, few can resist. There are all kinds of people coming in to eat, but everyone seems to be working hard to make a living, taking night as day. So the plate of broken rice for them, like a reward, is meager, but it is the joy of a whole day of work. Once for a long time, I also sat down to eat at a broken rice restaurant in District 8. The shop was small, shabby, sold on the sidewalk, and closed on the eaves of a shop selling building materials, so it was closed at night. That day it was raining, I saw in the corner of the shop there was a hand pretending to be brothers and sisters, a rough appearance was sitting taciturnly eating. His gesture was spiteful, holding a spoon and slamming it on the plate of rice as if he was sulking, hating everyone around. An old woman selling lottery tickets entered the shop to shelter from the rain, shivering but still enlisted to invite a few guys to dress politely like an office worker, probably just got home from drinking, sitting at the next table, buying and supporting some lottery tickets. but you keep shaking your head. “Dm…! The old lady comes here and I buy it for you”, the whole shop turned to look at the brothers and sisters’ hands but then quickly turned away, avoiding his knife-like glare. “Sit down here and see, Damn… there are some lottery tickets that are expensive to stand and beg. But she ate a plate of rice and then I bought a dozen sheets.” “Hey shop, get her a plate of rice and patties, dammit! I don’t know if I can chew!?”. The old lady hummed and mumbled to say thank you. “If I meet her sons, they will beat me to death..! Damn, I’m so old now, I still have to go look for rice!” Oh my God! I’ve never heard anyone swear so cute. Of course, I enjoy hearing swearing. Late night wind, pouring cold rain water continuously into the shop, but I can hear it warm, warm my stomach, I don’t know if it’s because of the plate of rice, the steam from the stove or because of the swearing!? And tonight, also a rainy Saigon night, there was a person who felt hungry for broken rice at night, not because he was hungry. But because I remember the time when I came back to Nga Bay at night to eat dinner. Remember the poor neighborhood, remember the swearing, remember the friends from elementary school, middle school used to be a kid together. Remember the time when the rice was not enough, the shirt was not warm enough. And remember her classmate, taking a break from selling rice at night to help her mother to get married on the other side of a strange wharf. “Eat a full meal and then go home, try to study well, don’t be poor like my family, suffering and humiliating.” Saigon, rainy night in June.

Chuyen Ky rice noodle shop Address: Ton That Dam, Ben Nghe, District 1, HCMC Price: 40,000-180,000 VND The shop is located in the Old Market on Ton That Dam Street, District 1. Chuyen Ky rice bowl has existed for more than 70 years, is considered the oldest in Saigon with the style of cooking rice in a small bowl. Thanks to the unique and sophisticated way of cooking, the rice here is flexible and fragrant. Compared to other rice noodle shops, the bowls at this address are made from a pottery kiln dating back decades, with old designs. Chuyen Ky Rice Shop sells dozens of dishes from beef, chicken, shrimp, fish, squid, pork kidney … processed in many different ways. In particular, the shop does not cook it, but where customers order it, they will cook it. Photo: Ancungbepcoha. Diners rate: Binh Phan: “The dish is very delicious, hot and delicious. Many traditional dishes, the portion is quite good for normal eating. Slightly higher prices.” Ten Ten: “Food is prepared according to the Chinese way but is reduced according to the taste of the Vietnamese people. The food is also varied. The price is ok in my opinion. I eat mixed fried noodles, boiled chicken, fried chicken with spinach + water is also 300,000 VND for 2 people. Ba Ha broken rice Address: Hung Phu, District 8, HCMC Price: 35,000-65,000 VND The shop has been operating for more than 20 years and is one of the most crowded broken rice restaurants in Saigon. Broken rice here is famous for fish cakes, salted eggs and chicken thighs. The highlight, attracting diners to the restaurant is two dishes with strange salted egg rolls and fried chicken thighs with rich fish sauce. If you want to try salted egg rolls, you have to come early. The shop opens from 16:30, but until about 5 pm, the egg rolls are gone. Photo: Hatmydiscover, Mysteriousaigon. Diners rate: Lan Nguyen: “Rice rice and salted egg rolls cost 47,000 VND, delicious marinated ribs, quite large. Salted egg rolls are like 1/4 large minced meat ball with salted egg in the middle, which is also quite delicious.” Hai Vuong: “In general, the meat is quite delicious, soft, not too thick. In addition, the dipping sauce is very tasty and not too sweet or salty. I visited with my friends to eat here twice, the next time I ate more special rice with salted egg custard. However, there is a parking fee.” Chicken fried rice with fat 142 Address: Ba Dinh, Ward 10, District 8 Price: 30,000-60,000 VND Located near the foot of Nguyen Tri Phuong bridge, the restaurant attracts a large number of diners to enjoy fried chicken rice. Chicken rice has big thighs, crispy skin, soft meat, fried rice is not sick. The space of the restaurant is airy, clean, and is highly appreciated by many diners. In addition to fried chicken rice, the restaurant also has a diverse menu such as fried noodles, seafood rice… Photo: Ansapsaigon. Diners rate: Biboaa: “The lunch box is super full. Chicken rice with garlic sauce is the most popular dish, the chicken thighs are super big, the meat is tender, the skin is crispy. Mixed seaweed soup with squid, kidney, pork liver, meat and beef balls, the taste of water depends on the day, I feel a bit salty.” Thy Nguyen: “Order many times, the quality is impeccable every time. Full delivery, food arrived still hot. Freshly fried chicken, not dry, a big piece is very filling.” Ba Ghien broken rice Address: Dang Van Ngu, Phu Nhuan District Price: 30,000-100,000 VND Ba Ghien broken rice is a familiar address for young people of the 9X generation. The restaurant is known by many people for its pork ribs overflowing with rice. Although the food is cheap, the quality of the food is highly appreciated by many diners. You can order more egg rolls, omelets, sausages, shumai balls, skins, pickles… The special thing is that the shumai section here is added with a bit of strange vermicelli. Photo: Cknhowmein, Motngaybabua__. Diners rate: Quy Dang: “Rice is small and ribs are plentiful. The taste is just right, the fish sauce is normal, the bitter melon soup or the vegetable soup is quite a lot. The price is quite high, a portion of rice with sausage ribs is 82,000 VND.” Khai Doan: “My rice restaurant was taken by a friend to eat since I arrived in Saigon more than 20 years ago, so far it still retains its own characteristic of a very large grilled rib.”

Ngoc Huyen, born Vu Ha Ngoc Huyen is a reformed artist. She has won many major awards in Vietnam, received the title of Distinguished Artist and is considered to be the person who “brought cai luong to break through the old stereotypes to approach the rhythm of the times”. The female artist has been singing since the age of 14, won many awards such as the gold medal of the National Professional Festival in 1990 and 2000, the gold medal of Tran Huu Trang from 1995 to 1996, the most favorite actress Mai Vang 1995-1997. -2002… Ngoc Huyen was awarded the title of Excellent Artist in 2001. In mid-2002, she went to the US to tour, then got married with the son of singer Thanh Tuyen and settled down. Currently, the artist’s family is living in California, USA. Not only successful in career, Ngoc Huyen also has a full family life, obedient children. When she finished work, she would go to the kitchen to cook delicious meals for her family. Although she has been in the US for many years, perhaps it is impossible to forget the taste of her hometown, but the dishes that the female artist cooks are all Vietnamese. She shared that her cooking experience was taught by her mother since childhood and “Until now, I still study cooking with my mother, what she cooks, I learn that dish.” The dish she recently cooked with the right Vietnamese flavor is Saigon broken rice. Tam rice dish, she and her mother went to the kitchen to treat the whole family Broken rice is an idyllic rustic dish of Saigon people, a harmonious combination from tiny but fragrant broken rice grains, served with grilled pork cutlet and pork rind or omelet, creating a delicious dish. distinctive features of the cuisine of the people of the South. A portion of broken rice usually has ribs, skin, rolls, omelet, these are the 4 most popular side dishes, accompanied by a few slices of cucumber or tomato. Looking at Ngoc Huyen’s meal is enough to see that the taste of home dishes is always very clearly imprinted, never forgotten. In addition, the female artist also cooks many other hometown dishes: Quang noodles by her own hands. Her family often cooks Vietnamese dishes as a “emotional string” for her to remember Vietnam. She revealed that her children from childhood to adulthood always like to eat pho the most The family food of singer Ngoc Huyen is simple with every season, fresh and ensures nutrition and health. A tray of rice ensures enough nutrients for Ngoc Huyen’s family Ngoc Huyen changed dishes for the whole family with spring rolls To cook delicious broken rice like Ngoc Huyen, you can refer to the following recipe: Prepare: – Broken rice: 300g. – Regular rice: 60g. – Ribs pieces: 300g (4 pieces of cutlets). – Pork skin: 100g. – Tomato: 1 fruit. – White radish: 150g. Carrots: 150g. – Rice hearing. – 1 chili pepper, 4 garlic cloves, 3 purple onions. – Green onions: 1 small handful. – Lemon: One fruit. – Spices: Fish sauce, salt, seasoning seeds, monosodium glutamate, rice vinegar (100ml). – Seasoning for marinated ribs includes: 1 tablespoon honey, 1 teaspoon salt, 2 tablespoons delicious fish sauce, 1 tablespoon oyster sauce, 2 teaspoons sweetened condensed milk, 2 tablespoons cooking oil, 2 tablespoons sugar, 1 tablespoon soda water, a few drops of lemon, a little garlic and minced purple onion. Put the ribs with the prepared marinade into the bowl, mix well to absorb the seasoning. Cover the bowl with plastic wrap and let it sit for 2-3 hours. Making: – Cook rice: Mix the two types of rice well, wash it, put it in a pot and pour in water to cook normally. For delicious rice, you can refer to the following recipe: The number of cups of rice is equal to the number of cups of water adding 1/2 cup of water. For example, 1 cup of rice will add 1.5 cups of water. – Grilled ribs: You can grill ribs over charcoal or in the oven. When the ribs are almost cooked, take the ribs out and dip them back into the seasoning bowl, then grill again until the ribs are golden brown and fragrant. Note, you should keep the fire low to medium, avoid quick baking, when cooked, the ribs will be more delicious. And the secret to getting delicious ribs with a more attractive golden color is to brush a layer of honey on the surface of the meat when the meat is almost cooked. – Make pickles. Grate the carrots and white radish in a bowl. Pour into a cup of 100ml vinegar, add 3 tablespoons of sugar, half a teaspoon of salt, stir until dissolved, then pour into a bowl of grated carrots and white radish. Stir well and submerge carrots and cabbage in vinegar, cover with cling film and soak for about 1 hour. – Pork skin: Boiled with a little salt, when cooked, the pork skin will shrink. Remove the cooked skin to a cup of cold water, add a little ice to soak for 5 minutes, then remove and drain. Thinly slice the skin and mix well with the hearing. – Cucumber and tomato: Cut into pieces. – Make onion fat: You boil a small amount of cooking oil in a pan, then add a cup of finely chopped scallions and add a little sugar and salt. – Garlic, chili: Finely minced. – Prepare fish sauce: Prepare half a cup of clean water, add 2 tablespoons of sugar, 2 tablespoons of fish sauce, stir until the sugar dissolves. Then add minced garlic and chili and mix well. A small note is that garlic and chili should be added later, then it will float on the surface of the fish sauce. And the last step, you just need to present the dish to the plate so that it is beautiful.

Sticky rice “morgue”: The reason there is this weird and creepy name dish is because the sticky rice car is located right opposite the funeral home on Nguyen Tri Phuong Street (District 5). Sticky rice “morgue” is left in banana leaves, when holding it hot, you want to burn your whole hand. A pack of sticky rice consists of a piece of white sticky rice with the palm of your hand, topped with thin pate, sausage, cotton balls, peanuts and sprinkled with fried onion fat… interesting. Broken rice “garbage”: There are many “top” broken rice restaurants in Saigon and when it comes to mentioning, it is impossible not to list there the famous landfill broken rice restaurant on Le Van Linh small street, behind the area. Xom Chieu market (District 4). The rice here is standard broken rice, the food comes from grilled ribs, fried chicken, skin fibers, meat rolls to omelettes, sausages, braised meat, shrimp, stuffed squid, shumai … each dish is presented. Beautifully decorated, lustrous, lustrous colors Banh mi “o-lip”: For a long time, Saigon has been considered the birthplace of the famous Vietnamese-style burger and if there is any Saigon bread address that is mentioned and recommended by many international websites. Perhaps it is the “legendary” bakery that many people know called “banh mi oh” located on Le Thi Rieng Street (District 1). With the price of up to 30,000 VND / drive, but every evening until late at night, there is always a group of people with dozens of large and small motorbikes and cars standing in the street of Le Thi Rieng to queue to buy cakes. Wild duck: In fact, “evil duck” does not exist in the world. This dish has the correct name of “mourd duck”. This type of egg is basically cancerous, so when boiled, it will be quite smelly, slightly open and rotten. However, some people are “addicted” to the smell and taste of this rotten duck egg, thinking that it is greasy, fatty, not choking like eating fresh chicken eggs. Wild ducks are sold on street vendors in every corner of Saigon. Salt and chili noodles: This is also one of the unique dishes that many people mention the name of cuisine when it comes to Saigon. This strange dish is sold in a small alley on Tran Ke Xuong street (Phu Nhuan district, HCMC). The ingredients for making a bowl of salt and pepper noodles are mainly pre-fried shrimp noodles. Noodles are dipped directly into a pot of boiling broth on a charcoal stove. After that, the noodles are picked out, put in a bowl and added with pieces of pork, seasoned with spices, fried onions, pepper, chili, fish sauce… In particular, this noodle dish cannot be without salt and chili. When eating, people will mix noodles with chili salt to create a visually appealing bowl of red noodles. Photo: IT. Invite readers to watch the video “Changing the tray of 1 million with only a few dishes, without rice and sticky rice”. Source: VTV TSTC.

However, realizing that there were many broken rice restaurants in Saigon, The boldly flew to Hanoi to start a business, hoping to bring a familiar Saigon dish to Hanoi. “In Saigon, broken rice is everywhere on the sidewalks, big and small. From large scale restaurants to small casual eateries. Everyone in this city loves to eat broken rice. They all eat in the morning, lunch, afternoon, and evening because broken rice is easy to eat and reasonably priced. The broken rice shops are crowded. So I think, trading broken rice can help make money and be successful in Hanoi”, The recounted. Broken rice is a popular dish in Saigon Think is do. In early 2019, he decided to fly to Hanoi. Here, The met some close friends and asked them for advice, looking for a place to rent space to open a broken rice restaurant. After two weeks of searching, The rented a space of 50m2, including 2 floors, in Duy Tan street, Cau Giay, Hanoi. This is a beautiful, bustling place with a lot of office people. However, the rent is extremely expensive 20 million/month. Although the rent is expensive, he saw the potential because there were many offices and many office workers, so he still decided to do it. So rent the house for 1 year but have to pay 6 months in advance. Particularly, the rent for the premises has already expired 120 million VND. He spent 30 million to buy tables and chairs, cooking utensils, dishes and 5 million to buy ingredients such as grilled ribs, grilled meat, eggs, skin, egg rolls and other side dishes… Then hire 2 more service staff, salary 4.5 million/month/person. The total cost he initially spent was more than 160 million dong. Because the process to process broken rice is quite simple and few stages, when making the dish by yourself, The also finds that it saves a lot of time and the cost of hiring staff to serve. In addition, the side dishes of broken rice are also easy to prepare and relatively cheap. “The broken rice dish only has grilled ribs, eggs, skin, and egg rolls. Side foods need cucumbers, tomatoes, lettuce, sauerkraut, etc. All of these foods are rustic and can be bought easily at markets,” he said. With the remaining amount of about 40 million, The thought to reserve for the procurement of raw materials and pay staff in the first 2-3 months of business when there were not many customers. The strange thing is, although the restaurant is opened in such a method, it is not as satisfactory when it opens for sale. However, when coming to Hanoi, not everyone likes this dish, even though the price of a meal of broken rice in Saigon is only 35,000 VND. “In the first month, the shop had a loss. But I think the loss of the first month is normal because the customers are not familiar. Hopefully next month more guests will come. But the next month, I still have a loss. The next month will not be able to recover, “The said. The price of each plate of broken rice is very affordable, only 35,000 VND, but on many days, it can only sell about 50 servings. Deducting the money to buy raw materials, he only made a profit of about 500,000 VND all day. This amount is only enough to pay the salaries of 2 employees, electricity and water. 3 consecutive months of losses, too panic, The started to panic and find the reason why his broken rice restaurant has good food, enthusiastic service attitude is still not crowded. Turns out, Hanoi office people don’t like to eat broken rice often. They prefer to eat at familiar restaurants that they have tried. They also prefer popular dishes such as bun cha, bun dau, pho, and banh cuon on the sidewalk rather than sitting in beautiful restaurants. In addition, on sunny days, the temperature is up to 39 degrees Celsius, the number of visitors decreases. Sometimes it’s halved. Because it’s sunny, everyone is afraid to go out, so they bring home-cooked rice. Trying to maintain the shop until the end of the 5th month, The decided to close, accepting a loss of 200 million. “Any business person opening a restaurant wants to quickly recover capital and make a profit. But now I know, just relying on the basic advantages of the dish is not enough and will still lose face. The broken rice business in Hanoi is not suitable for the culinary needs of the people here. Meanwhile, the shops of pho, bun cha, and popular snacks with no brand or name but are always full of customers even though they are located in the alley,” he concluded. Having failed with a broken rice restaurant in Hanoi, The flew back to Saigon to continue working and saving money. After nearly 2 years, he continued to rent a space of 7 million / month to open a popular broken rice restaurant. “The failure in Hanoi taught me a great lesson. It is business, life or death, success or failure, the final decision is still the habits and preferences of the people there. Then comes the quality of the food and the issue of food safety and hygiene. Moreover, my mistake when I invested in opening a broken rice restaurant outside Hanoi was that I just opened the restaurant and asked for a big business. Therefore, I should learn from others, open a small shop, and then slowly see how it expands.”

Beef hot pot “graveyard”: The beef hotpot restaurant “graveyard” is located on Nguyen Thi Dinh street, District 2, City. HCM. This place has existed for 15 years now, with a name quite familiar to young Saigonese. This creepy-named restaurant is usually very crowded, you only need 130,000 VND to enjoy a hot pot of hot pot with many attractive side dishes. There are many graves around the shop, which makes many people wary when coming here. The space is airy, clean with delicious food taste and affordable price. This is what keeps people coming back. “Ma” tea: This is a common name for a Chinese-origin tea shop located just near the Soai Kinh Lam fabric market (District 5, HCMC). The tea shop is located in an old house that is more than 70 years old, passed down through 4 generations. Because the shop usually sells until late at night, under the dim and dim street lights, many people call the shop “ghost tea”. Those who have once enjoyed “ghost tea” here have the same comment that the tea has a delicious and delicate taste that is unforgettable. Many guests eat at a time up to 4, 5 types of tea at a time. Each type has its own unique flavor that makes customers full but still hungry. The tea shop serves a variety of teas with distinctive and delicate flavors. The tea dishes here all have quite unique names such as hot/cold boiled chicken seeds, Quy Linh Cao, red apple longan, chicken seed root powder, bo bo quail eggs, etc. Broken rice “ghost”: On Dinh Tien Hoang street in Binh Thanh district, there is a broken rice shop that almost only appears at dusk and then disappears again at dawn. Therefore, the name “rice broken rice” is also associated with this restaurant for that reason. In fact, the shop called Huyen broken rice is located in an alley on busy Dinh Tien Hoang street. Just hearing the name, everyone feels “chilled” a bit, but in fact, the restaurant is famous because the secret of the dish is quite special compared to many other places. In addition to the familiar broken ribs – pork – cha, guests can order other side dishes such as grilled chicken, soups, and soups. Only a few small tables are displayed along the alley with the price is not cheap, but this restaurant still does not see the absence of visitors every day. Sticky rice “morgue”: Originally a car selling sticky rice on Tran Phu Street, it is located right at two funeral homes, so this sticky rice restaurant has such a “scary” name. The highlight of the restaurant is the famous delicious salty sticky rice, along with the very cheap price of only 10,000 VND/serving. Hot sticky rice is delicately wrapped in banana leaves to create a delicious feeling, served with cotton balls, sausages sprinkled with a little spicy sauce and a little fried onion fat, making many people eat once but remember forever. The restaurant has been around for 40 years and is open for sale from 16-24 hours daily. Photo: IT. Invite readers to watch the video “Chaosing the tray of 1 million dishes with only a few dishes, not including rice and sticky rice”. Source: VTV TSTC.

1. Broken rice “garbage dump” There are many “top” broken rice shops in Saigon and when it comes to mentioning, it is impossible not to list them in the famous landfill broken rice restaurant on Le Van Linh small street, behind Xom Chieu market (District 4). . The rice here is standard broken rice, the food comes from grilled ribs, fried chicken, skin fibers, meat rolls to omelettes, sausages, braised meat, shrimp, stuffed squid, shumai … each dish is presented. beautifully presented, lustrous, lustrous colors. 2. Sticky rice “morgue” The reason for this creepy name is because the car is located right opposite the funeral home on Nguyen Tri Phuong Street (District 5). Sticky rice is placed in banana leaves, when holding it hot, the whole hand. A pack of sticky rice consists of a piece of white sticky rice with the palm of your hand, topped with thin pate, sausage, cotton balls, peanuts and sprinkled with fried onion fat… looks extremely attractive. 3. Bread “olip” For a long time, Saigon has been considered the birthplace of the famous Vietnamese-style burger, and if there is a Saigon sandwich address that is mentioned and recommended by many international websites, it is probably it. A “legendary” bakery that many people know called “Banh Mi O Lip” is located on Le Thi Rieng Street (District 1). With the price of up to 30,000 VND / drive, but every evening until late at night, there is always a group of people with dozens of motorbikes, large and small, standing in the middle of Le Thi Rieng street to buy cakes. 4. Crazy duck In fact, “bad ducks” do not exist in the world. This dish has the correct name of “mourd duck”. This type of egg is basically cancerous, so when boiled, it will be quite smelly, slightly open and rotten. However, some people are “addicted” to the smell and taste of this rotten duck egg, thinking that it is greasy, fatty, not choking like eating fresh chicken eggs. Ducks are sold on street vendors in every corner of Saigon. 5. Orange Tea Cam tea has a strange name, but it is actually a common name for tea dishes originating from Cambodians living in Saigon. Cambodian tea has many differences from Vietnamese tea, in which, the most characteristic is that all tea flavors are made from jaggery, not alum or white sugar. Other ingredients are also very special and fancy such as pumpkin, fried banana with coconut, yellow egg noodles, coconut milk … You can enjoy orange tea at Le Hong Phong market (District 10, City). Ho Chi Minh City). 6. Salt and chili noodles The ingredients for making a bowl of salt and pepper noodles are mainly pre-fried shrimp noodles. Noodles are dipped directly into a pot of boiling broth on a charcoal stove. After that, the noodles are picked out, put in a bowl and add a piece of pork, seasoned with spices, fried onions, pepper, chili, fish sauce, … In particular, this noodle dish cannot lack chili salt. When eating, people will mix noodles with chili salt to create a visually appealing bowl of red noodles. This strange dish is sold in a small alley on Tran Ke Xuong street (Phu Nhuan district, HCMC). 7. Peach tea The concept of peach tea was first known in Saigon with the main drink being tea bags added with peach flavor and crispy golden peach pieces. People can buy peach tea everywhere from luxurious, expensive cafes to plastic take away cups quickly wrapped by the roadside. Then, handmade peach tea, online peach tea, zip bag peach tea … race up, the price is just like that, ranging from 15-50k/cup. 8. Crab soup cake There are many theories about the origin of crab soup, but anyone who comes to Saigon must admit that crab cake in Saigon is very delicious and unique. The dish is not only attracted by its distinctive aroma, but also fascinates diners by its shiny, stocky big crab and the price is very affordable. 9. Mixed rice paper For Northerners, rice paper is just for rolling spring rolls and salad, but for Saigon people, “mixed rice paper” is a wonderful and delicious snack with ingredients including soft, chewy rice paper and full of dried beef, mango, quail eggs… and very attractive sweet and sour sauce. 10. cadet sticky rice Not having an easy-to-understand name like ordinary sticky rice, cade sticky rice is made from sticky sticky rice blown with fragrant coconut milk, the cade part is made from simple ingredients egg yolk, milk, and sugar according to a recipe. Unique recipe requires meticulousness and skill of the processor to get a delicious, smooth cade. This sticky rice dish decades ago was brought by the Chinese to Saigon and taken as a means of livelihood, but up to now, there is only one small sticky rice car in Saigon remaining at the corner of Tran intersection. Phu intersects with Nguyen Tri Phuong (District 5).

Here are the delicious breakfast restaurants that I had the opportunity to experience in my trip to Dalat. Banh Butter Commercial Can Tho Banh can is a dish not to be missed in my culinary journey in Dalat. Located right under the avocado tree on Tang Bat Ho Street, this bakery is a familiar address for many mountain street diners. I arrived early in the morning, when the store just opened. The dining space is quite narrow, at first glance nothing outstanding. However, the hot cans, crispy gold, combined with bold dipping sauces are the true catch for diners. Here, banh can has only one type of egg filling. The peach-shaped quail egg cake is my “guts” every time I go to the restaurant. Diners who are accustomed to eating multi-filled cakes such as beef, seafood, I think this is not the ideal choice. Each piece of cake has the same price of 35,000 VND. The soul of the dish lies in the sauce. The mixture includes fish sauce or seasoning fish sauce, added with onion fat, satay, bringing a rich, spicy, unforgettable taste for the first time to enjoy. Compared to the cake cans I tried in Da Lat, the restaurant has a flavor-catching sauce, eating less because the small commercial is not too fat, greasy. Moc broken rice As a familiar street food of Ho Chi Minh City, broken rice in Dalat still has its own attraction to many culinary devotees. A restaurant on Nguyen Van Troi Street is a place I often visit whenever I miss the taste of Saigon cuisine. Searching on Da Lat culinary sites, this is not a famous place to eat broken rice. Modern design, neatly decorated is my first impression when arriving at the restaurant. The menu here is mainly grilled ribs broken rice with fried eggs, rolls or squid. The portion of the rice is not too much meat, but it is quite good quality. The grilled meat is soft, fragrant, adding onion fat and creamy crunchy fat and a few slices of tomatoes and cucumbers to create coolness. The fish sauce is thick, sour, salty, and sweet. When eating, diners can add chili to make it spicy. Each piece of broken rice will have a cup of vegetable soup. Rice dishes are priced from 45,000 to 55,000 VND. A delicious, full breakfast here makes me satisfied. However, the minus point is that it takes a long time to order, about 40 minutes. Pho Uyen I found Pho Uyen in a chilly early morning on the outskirts of the mountain town. Over nearly 3 decades, the pho restaurant has kept the essence of Ha’s cuisine into a rustic wooden space with old hand-painted signs. Coming here, I was like going back in time to Dalat many years ago. Shop owner Nguyen Thi Thuc (71 years old) shared: “In the past, my husband and I taught, economic problems were a bit of a problem, so we opened a new noodle shop. Pho Uyen was named after my daughter”. Not only a simple dining place, Pho Uyen also reminds the image of old Dalat. Ms. Thuc said all the signs, paint colors and pictures of the shop were chosen and designed by her husband. “My husband, although teaching foreign languages, has a passion for painting, wants to keep the beautiful memories of old Dalat”, she added. Pho here is cooked in the southern style, the broth is characterized by fat scum. Soft pho stalks, submerged in a fragrant herbal broth. Above are the types of meat such as ground beef, encrusted beef, beef balls with scallions, a little spicy pepper. I was recommended by the owner of a special noodle bowl, including poached eggs, beef, balls … The broth is fragrant, rich in flavor, however, the greasy cream above makes me unfamiliar. Each bowl of pho here ranges from 35,000 to 40,000 VND. Doan Vien steamed beef noodle soup In an early wandering on Tran Phu Street, I stopped at Doan Vien beef noodle shop because of a curious food sign. This is the first shop to use a rock form to make a bowl of beef noodle soup in Da Lat. This type of stone is used a lot in Korea because the food in the bowl will stay hot longer than usual. Different from my image of steaming beef noodle soup, the dish is served in a stone bowl, but it is not “boiling hot”. The restaurant said that diners can instruct staff to prepare hotter dishes if they want. A special feature of the restaurant is that the spices are left on the table for customers to taste according to their taste. The dining table is fully decorated with spring rolls, spices such as fish sauce, satay … and yogurt cheese dessert. There are 2 types of beef noodle soup here: traditional (ceramic bowl) and premium (Korean stone bowl). The menu has many flavors for you to choose from such as vermicelli beef ribs, corn, crab rolls, pork rolls, beef ribs, beef marrow … I ordered a vermicelli beef ribs 45,000 VND. Bar broth, those who like to eat bold can add shrimp sauce, fish sauce. After eating beef noodle soup, I was given hot pea flower tea for free. After breakfast, I combine to explore many check-in points on this route such as Con Ga church, Dalat station … Bun Nga (Restaurant 77) Food Street Nguyen Van Troi concentrates many delicious food, especially water dishes such as vermicelli, pho. Quan 77 is located in an easy-to-find location, and is loved by diners because of its varied breakfast menu. The owner is a Dalat, said he has 25 years of experience selling vermicelli. Bun rieu and beef noodle soup are fixed dishes of the restaurant. In addition, the menu changes by day, including many other dishes such as duck noodle vermicelli, chicken vermicelli, beef stock, Quang noodles … I ordered a bowl of mixed rice vermicelli 40,000 VND, full of rolls, crab, blood, beans, spring rolls, tomatoes … Quite quality meal with large crab sticks and crab sticks, beautiful red brick broth eye. Served vegetables include banana corn, shredded cabbage, bean sprouts … Having breakfast while watching the peaceful streets of Dalat in the morning is an unforgettable experience for me.

Pineapple – Chicken Rice The hot rice with soft chicken and standard dipping sauce always attracts many diners. The restaurant serves this beautiful and exotic pineapple green rice dish suitable for you to order lunch or dinner. Servings also include chicken dipping sauce, salad mixed with vinegar, soup. The chicken here is varied with a variety of sauces such as spicy, cinnamon leaves, passion fruit, lemongrass and garlic sauce … Address: Nguyen Gia Tri, Binh Thanh District Price: 45,000-299,000 VND Business hours: 9-22h Chicken rice dish attracts diners with pineapple green color. Photo: Duacomga. Diners commented: Elsa Diep: “We each choose one taste, most of them are fine. Chicken is strong. Rice is soft and fragrant with pineapple”. Tien Dien: “I ordered a combo of chicken rice with Thai spicy sauce and chicken with garlic sauce. The rice is a bit soft, the smell of pineapple leaves is not clear, the seasoning is okay. The chicken is quite small compared to the price”. Duc Minh: “Korean chicken with spicy sauce has soft and chewy meat. You should season the sauce moderately because the taste is a bit salty. The rice is not dry or dough, sometimes with mild aroma. Salad and broth are fine”. W Corner If you want to recharge to keep working, the fragrant, colorful and richly flavored fried rice is a must-have choice. Some suggestions worth trying are Yangzhou fried rice, pineapple, Malay chicken. In addition, the shop also has a variety of variations such as fried rice with garlic, eggs, seafood, sweet and sour ribs, shaking beef, fried chicken wings with fish sauce … For those who want to enjoy white rice, you can choose dishes such as fried squid satay, fried chicken with samba chili, fried beef with black pepper, young ribs, fried egg rolls … and vegetables to relieve boredom. Soup with tomato, egg, pickled mustard greens, chopped cabbage or seaweed will make your meal more flavorful. Note, the shop changes the menu every day. Address: Tran Huy Lieu, Phu Nhuan district Price: 48,000-85,000 VND Business hours: 9-17h (Monday – Friday) Rice is boxed beautifully by the shop for customers to order. Photo: Le Ngoc Hung. Diners commented: Le Ngoc Hung: “Covid-19 translation is complicated, making me afraid to go out to eat, ordering lunch online is a reasonable choice. The restaurant’s Malay chicken fried rice has soft meat, spiced up with spices, chicken skin. Crispy, sweet and slightly spicy sauce. My most satisfied point is the packaging stage “. Hung Le: “The rice is presented quite beautifully, but a bit spicy, the dish is good compared to the price. The chicken is infused with uneven sauce, a little dry, fast food”. Tien Nguyen: “I try many rice dishes at the restaurant, most of them are quite good, with rich seasoning, a bit like Chinese cuisine, the price is moderate”. The Nguyen Broken Rice Broken rice is cooked from broken rice grains, which are broken rice grains. Side dishes can vary according to the cooker’s variations, but grilled ribs, egg rolls, fried eggs and squid are the most familiar ingredients. At this restaurant, you can choose grilled baby ribs with honey, grilled chicken drumsticks, roasted meat with char siu, pork skin, fried egg rolls … to enjoy with rice. Seaweed soup with minced meat, low-fat, light stick is the choice of many diners for a more delicious meal. Shrimp sour soup, bitter melon stuffed with meat, sauerkraut … are also suggestions for you to change the taste with your rice. Address: Mac Dinh Chi or Nguyen Hue, District 1 and Truong Son, Tan Binh District Price: 27,000-150,000 VND Business hours: 7-21h Broken rice with pork ribs and pork skin is popular in the South. Photo: Comtamthenguyen. Diners commented: Ken Tatw: “The rice is not so excellent but it is edible, the layout is clean and beautiful. The serving is still hot when delivered. If the shop improves the fish sauce preparation, the overall food will taste better.” “. Oanh Hoang: “Rice can be ordered and can be bought at a canned shop. The price is a bit high”. An Trang: “Rice ribs with meat are grilled moderately, not dry, seasoning has its own characteristics, reasonable price. Kitchen Jena If you love to experience different culinary versions with different colors, the following rice dish with blue or purple color is worth a try. Grilled ribs, fried eggs, egg rolls, chicken thighs, bacon, shrimp with garlic butter sauce or plum sauce are the ingredients you can choose from. The dish also has cucumber, sour food, sweet and sour fish sauce. Different from the pea flower broken rice, charcoal brown rice is cooked softer, more flexible and favored by “eat clean” followers. You can order a serving with a combination of the two above. Address: Dien Bien Phu, District 10 Price: 35,000-78,000 VND Business hours: 10-21h Broken rice is unique color. Photo: Jena Kitchen. Diners commented: Luu Anh Khoa: “The ingredients are quite familiar such as ribs, sausages, fried eggs. The difference is that broken rice has the green color of the pea flower. The rice is not too dry, a little sweet. brown rice. The price is a bit high, which makes up for the quality of the dish and the service is quite good “. Lan Phuong Vu Ngoc: “The rice is a bit dry. The chicken is not evenly cooked”. How to make beautiful char siu rice with standard color White rice combined with a few slices of char siu meat will surely satisfy many diners. With the following simple recipe, you can make this dish at home.

Loving a guy, a Saigon girl is like, is a friend in Hanoi but is addicted to eating Ba Chieu noodle soup, likes dating for coffee in District 2, on weekends for a fair market. Then I always love the green tamarind rows running along Vo Van Tan street, love the sudden rain, love the rustic and generous love here. Stepping on the street, there is always a call for “Aunt Ba”, two calls for “Uncle Tu” and then the sentence “yes” to confess “son”, why I feel enlightened, strange but … I feel sorry. Saigon girl is only 2 hours flying, but I still miss it strangely Saigon is sprawling and busy, but everyone who comes to play will feel “satisfied with the stomach”. Food in the land of Saigon is nothing to blame, North Central and South have enough nothing to miss: Hanoi pho, Hoi An chicken rice, Phan Thiet pancake, My Tho noodle soup or a plate of rice in the past. reputation … From popular to luxurious, you can eat whatever you want. Not to mention Saigon can also enjoy cuisine from all over the world imported here: eat French brunch, try spicy sour pad Thai, tasting Indian curry or enjoy Italian cuisine at a luxury restaurant. important. Admittedly, the cuisine here has never disappointed anyone. There is nothing more romantic than a sunset in Saigon Not all guests know that the specialty in this country is the sunset. About 4 o’clock in the afternoon, pass each other through the city streets, head held high to look at the sky, fluttering pink clouds. If there were no conditions, they screamed to each other to run out the window and onto the terrace to reward themselves with a spectacular stage. Asking Saigon people where to hunt the most beautiful sunset, it is Thu Thiem bridge, Cha La bridge, Ong Lanh bridge, or the road running along Van Don wharf. Saigon people looked at it and realized that the traffic flowed crowdedly, jammed along, but anyone passing Ong Lanh bridge saw the sunset so beautiful, they had to stop the car to admire a little, take a few photos and then return. . “Hey, listen …” The most wonderful thing is to go to the restaurants in Saigon alley, not only because it is delicious but there are real life stories every time, funny stories from aunts to uncles. Uncle, everywhere we hear a few laughter between the neighbors. Loving Saigon for its people, coming back here because of the intimacy they gave to the guests. Saigon people are proud, polite, talkative, are always amiable and “sweet”, but not sweet in the manner of commendable or polite. The sounds of yes, thank you, sorry … are already in the heart and are at the mouth. Honestly, injured the nature of Saigon people. Saigon is a funny place, the more you live, the more you want to go back. 2 hours flight time, 2000 kilometers is nothing when the Hanoi people come here always feel “satisfied with their stomach”. Listen, Vietjet has many incentives, competitive fares, flexible flight times with frequency Nearly 20 trips / day, not to mention the extra 20kg of checked baggage that has never been so reasonable and convenient to go to Hanoi or to Saigon! Fly with Vietjet from now until 15.4.2021, you will receive a 100.000 VND voucher upon successful booking and registration information at: https://evoucher.vietjetair.com/, the voucher will be used for the booking next flight before 30.6.2021. Take advantage of early flight booking, not when the tickets run out, the price increases or the flight time is over, you will regret it.

5 is a special number When enjoying dishes in Vietnam, many foreign visitors are surprised with all the sour, spicy, salty, sweet and bitter flavors. This perfect blend creates the culinary features of this place, making a strong impression on visitors from afar. The typical flavor of each region Vietnam is divided into 3 main regions including North, Central and South. The cuisine of each of these regions also has its own characteristics. In the North, the food is less spicy, preferring pepper over chili. The North is also the birthplace of bun cha, a dish that was enjoyed by former President Barack Obama and the late chef Anthony Bourdain in 2016. Central has very spicy dishes that challenge the taste buds of diners. Meanwhile, Southern dishes are usually sweet. Full breakfast This has surprised many visitors to Vietnam. Vietnamese people tend to get up early and prepare well since it’s not yet morning. Before going to work, everyone can enjoy a bowl of hot pho, stewed soup or broken rice … dishes that are often used in the main meal. Coffee culture Many people believe that coming to Vietnam without trying coffee will be too big a mistake. Visitors can find cafes in almost every street in Vietnam, from popular to expensive. One of the coffee styles suggested by Culture Trip is iced brown. “ The coffee cup is combined with condensed milk and ice. This drink is like a powerful catalyst to stay healthy all day. A few delicious cafes are hidden inside alleys that are difficult to find “, this travel specialist commented. The dessert is liquid and cold Culture Trip advises visitors to enjoy the tea when coming here, especially banana tea. For those who want to eat well and like beautiful photos, 3-color tea is a reasonable choice. Strange dishes According to Culture Trip, the two dishes that most surprised foreigners when coming here are the blood and duck eggs. Blood broth is the main ingredient of fresh animal blood (duck or pig, goat) mixed with fish sauce or salt and then mixed with chopped meat and cartilage. Meanwhile, flipped duck eggs are a big challenge for foreign visitors. Fish sauce Fish sauce is used with many dishes. Visitors can dab vegetables, boiled meat, beans … with fish sauce to make the dish more flavorful. Besides, fish sauce is also used to create the perfect dipping dish for dishes such as spring rolls, bun cha, and banh xeo.

The journey “According to the history – The silent footprints – Saigon Villa” will help young people learn the heroic stories of the nation’s history. At the same time, on this journey, young people also visit the places marked by the soldiers of the Saigon Rangers. Itinerary “According to history – Silent Footprints – Saigon Cave” took place in one day. Coming to this tour, young people will learn about the history of Saigon in the 1965-1975 period, explore the old Saigon cuisine, take pictures with the Saigon scenes in the 1960s – 1970s. Young people can even receive souvenirs for themselves. Young people visit the Saigon Villa Coffee Shop (Photo: Lam Giang) Specifically, the tour “According to history – Silent Footprints – Saigon Rangers” will take young people to visit the relics: Secret mailboxes – Floating cellars – Weapon vaults of Saigon Rangers; visit the Saigon Villa Museum – the first private smart museum of the city. HCM City. Here, young people can also chat with “historical witnesses”. In addition, when participating in this tour, young people can watch short films about the intelligence route and enjoy dishes associated with soldiers such as Korean broken rice or butter coffee with sauces. porridge quẩy. For young people interested in spiritual tourism on this occasion, there will be a tour “Back to the sacred place” when coming to Binh Chanh district, where the ancient pagoda of Bat Buu Phat Da is located. This is a temple with bold primitive and ancient features among the green eucalyptus forests, is one of the places of religious and belief activities that attracts a large number of people to come to Buddha, visit … In addition, Binh Chanh also has a incense making village with the age of nearly 100 years, located along the roads in Le Minh Xuan commune. Closer and more realistic, young culinary lovers can explore a lively Saigon in every experience from street food of all regions and the world; from the melodramatic music in the tea room, the youthful music on the acoustic stage to the performance of the opera art, the warm family show of the ethnic artists … In which, two stories were chosen to tell. This occasion is “Exchange with typical families of three generations in Ho Chi Minh City” – the family of Meritorious Artist Tuyet Mai, with three generations of studying bamboo flute performance; and enjoy the Art of Poetry Singing at Ta Quan Le Van Duyet’s Mausoleum (at 9am every Sunday).

In episode 5 Road To Miss Universe, Miss Universe Vietnam 2019 Nguyen Tran Khanh Van drove himself to the sea and enjoyed grilled seafood in street vendors. The beauty born in 1995 is not afraid to sit by the side of the road while waiting for food. According to Khanh Van, in addition to being a beauty representative, she is also seen as an ambassador to promote Vietnamese culture and tourism. The 26-year-old Miss wants to introduce to international friends the rich life and cuisine of her home country. Also in episode 5 of the program, Khanh Van had the opportunity to reunite with two members of the conical hat – runner-up Mau Thuy and beauty Huong Ly. Three beauties are a group in Why Not Vietnam? – a reality show introducing the unique cultures and cuisines of the three regions. After meeting, the three girls went together to enjoy a familiar Vietnamese street-side snack, a flipped duck egg. In addition, the Hat Leaf team also enjoyed broken rice – a dish that many people happily called “poor family rice”. One of the other popular dishes introduced by Miss Khanh Van, Mau Thuy and Huong Ly in episode 5 Road To Miss Universe is egg coffee. After having a snack, the three beauties of the Miss Universe Vietnam pageant went for a walk in famous tourist spots such as Tan Dinh church, Bui Vien pedestrian street, and Tao Dan park. Since the coronation, Miss Khanh Van has repeatedly posted pictures of casual wear, eating snacks at the side of the road. The beauty born in 1995 claims herself as “the girl who loves mixed rice paper”. Khanh Van repeatedly invites the beauties of Huong Ly, Le Hang, and H’Hen Niê to enjoy street food with her. The simple image of the beauty queen and runner makes fans excited.

Packaging Roll The envelope looks simple, but it combines all the flavors in the world: fragrant scent from raw vegetables, fresh chives to chewy vermicelli fibers and crispy skin. Dipping the envelope into the thin fish sauce, adding pickles to eat is delicious to know. The envelope saw it was so compact, but eating 2-3 books was enough to fit. The price is “low”, only from 5,000-7,000 VND / book, no wonder this dish is loved so much by many “snacking” people. Squid – the dish looks simple, yet addictive. This dish is very popular with office workers because it is fast, the price is “chestnut” but attractive. Banh mi commercial Simple, easy to eat and available for a long time, it is not too difficult to find a row of small commercial bread in Saigon. Accompanying tiny trade, the skin also “contributes” to create a charming chewy and lumpy charm. Although the skin makes up a relatively small proportion of the bread core, if it is lacking, the dish will lose the harmony in each taste level. Crispy bread, a chewy fat leopard must have something that is both chewy and neutral. And of course, pork skin is the “standard without needing” choice. Although it is just a “supporting character” in this dish, the pork skin still shines as bright as any ingredients. Broken rice If the grilled ribs are rich and delicious, the pulp from the rice hearing of the skin completes the flavor. It is no exaggeration to say that without skin, it will not be able to create the famous Saigon broken rice dish. No flashy, fussy, light brown skin just blends in each hot rice grain, silently smelling fragrant. Chan a little fat onions, fish sauce, bite more ribs, eat with a little chewy, that’s enough to fill your stomach. Simplicity and sophistication are what diners feel about Saigon grilled pork and pork ribs. For standard Saigon broken rice dishes, there must be a few pieces of shredded skin. Silkworm cake Silkworm cake filled with coconut milk is both fat and greasy, making people feel bored easily, so it is necessary to have skin to reconcile the flavor. The tare fiber together with the chopped meat is dried and drained, covered evenly on the surface of the silkworm cake bowl. Not only emphasizing more color to help reduce boredom, but the crunchy, fragrant, fragrant skin of the skin also enhances the flavor of this popular dish. Adding raw vegetables, fish sauce or a tiny commercial is a complete convergence of all factors that make people fall in love. Pork skin neutralizes the fatty taste of coconut milk, no wonder why this dish is not bored forever. Noodles Vermicelli is a type of vermicelli mixed with raw vegetables and some ingredients, depending on your preference, filled with fish sauce and enjoyed. Simple as that, but also enough for people to eat and satisfy their taste buds. Fresh and chewy noodles, mixed with fragrant rice, all absorbent fish sauce mixed with sour – spicy – salty – sweet flavors. Many people like to add crispy fried spring rolls, thinly sliced ​​silk rolls, so there’s an instant bowl of quality vermicelli. This dish is easy to eat so it suits all tastes even the most difficult. All the ingredients are cheap, but it creates a bowl of vermicelli that can’t be better.

My one-day travel schedule in Can Gio is as follows: Morning Vehicles in this trip are motorbikes and trains. 7:00: Depart from University of Science (District 5) 7h45: Arrive at Binh Khanh ferry, move across the island by ferry 8h15: Breakfast 9h30: Arrive at Tac Thuat wharf, depart for Thanh An island 10h30: Visit seafood market, have lunch On Thanh An Island, visitors can enjoy seafood at the market or in nearby eateries. Afternoon After enjoying the seafood, you can take a short lunch break to continue your afternoon journey. 13h30: Back to Can Thanh to go to Can Gio beach to watch sunset 15h: Present at Can Gio beach, visit seafood market 17:00: Take photos of the sunset 18-20h: Move to the city center Cuisine Taking the ferry over to Can Gio, I have breakfast at the broken rice shop not far away. The shop is quite expensive. Eye-catching dish with giant ribs. If you do not like broken rice, you can eat pho at the next restaurant. Coming to Thanh An Island, you can buy seafood directly at the market and ask the seller to process it on the spot to enjoy. The market has no tables and chairs, so you can sit at the water shop. If you go to a seafood restaurant to eat, you will only order food without choosing seafood. I went to Sau Bo shop to try. The food is quite delicious, the price is reasonable. At the seafood market near Can Gio beach, 3 boxes of snails usually cost 100,000 VND. Crab, crab and shrimp cost 100,000 VND / box. If you can pay the price it may be cheaper. The seafood here is not so great. Maybe because I was late, the seafood was no longer fresh. However, the way to cook is delicious, especially tamarind sauce. The price to rent a seat at the market is 20,000 VND / chair, guests are allowed to bring food. Note For a safe trip, you should pay attention to the following things: – If you are short of time and afraid to move, you can reduce a few unnecessary locations. – If you want to enjoy fresh seafood, you should take advantage of the market early. – You must ensure the correct medical reporting process. – Visitors should prepare in advance ways to limit seasickness. – The last trip back to the mainland at 17:00, you should pay attention to avoid getting stuck on the island. – Sunset in Can Gio drops very quickly. You want to live virtual, check-in so quickly shoot. – When it was quite dark, on the road there were some sections with no lights and quite a few potholes.