Every day from 4 pm to 12 pm every day, at Xoi Man restaurant (409 Tran Phu, District 5, Ho Chi Minh City) is always crowded with customers to buy. Surely many people find it strange that around the sticky rice shop are many facilities, funeral services, even funeral homes, making the atmosphere here somewhat murky. Explaining the strange name of the dish, Mr. Luu Bao Minh, the current owner of the sticky rice shop, shared: “In the past, the restaurant was located on the corner of Nguyen Tri Phuong and Tran Phu streets, but since moving here, it is located near the funeral home. , stores that sell coffins, funeral services, and hospitals, so the shop is named like that.” The sticky rice shop is a car with a glass cabinet that looks like a bread cart that is often seen on many streets in Saigon. The pot of sticky rice is mounted on a gas stove placed in the car, the sticky rice is always smoky. Sticky rice is quite flexible, fragrant and fatty. Compared to other restaurants in the city, the address on Tran Phu street is not very prominent in taste, even less choice of side dishes than other places. However, it is not by chance that sticky rice “morgue” attracts gourmets in Saigon. According to the owner, every day people in the family will go to the market and cook by themselves from 10 am. Particularly, sausages are bought from Soc Trang, not from strange places. After buying pork sausage, it is fried and sliced ​​to taste. The shop only sells salty sticky rice, the main ingredients include: sticky rice, sausages and cotton balls. Besides, there is also onion fat and fried onions to create aroma and round taste. Where the onion fat sells, the shop will make it there because it’s ready-made, the fresh onion leaves will turn yellow and lose the characteristic pungent smell. Another plus point is that the shop also sprinkles crushed peanuts, creating a strange taste because salty sticky rice is rarely used by people. Soy sauce added to sticky rice is also mixed according to the traditional recipe. Another interesting thing is the unique way of eating sticky rice. Here, sticky rice will be wrapped in fresh banana leaves into long rolls like Tet cakes. Where customers eat, they tear banana leaves there. Never use a spoon. Explaining this way of eating, the owner said: “Because of the fear that the plastic of the spoon when meeting hot sticky rice will not be good for customers’ health”. Thanks to such a difference, in only 8 to 9 hours, all three pots of “mortar sticky rice” were quickly sold out. According to Mr. Quyen (Mr. Minh’s brother), the motorbike is the main source of income for the whole family. And with the number of customers coming to buy is too large, in order to serve customers in time, the whole family has to take turns selling continuously. With only 10,000 VND, we have in hand a delicious package of “morgue sticky rice”. With each soft, hot sticky rice. The top is covered with a layer of onion fat and heirloom soy sauce. Followed by a thick layer of scrubs, a spoonful of greasy roasted peanuts. Fried onions and pieces of red and pink sausage are placed on top, looking extremely stimulating to the taste buds. (According to GiadinhNet)

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.

“Here the hottest is traditional milk tea, drink with pearls and cheese jelly, you two should drink it”, Mr. Chau Nhuan Kiet (39 years old), owner, quickly closed the lid and advised the guests. . Talk with Zing Mr. Kiet said in 2009, he and his brother, Chau Quoc Hao (40 years old), opened a milk tea shop to sell for fun, not thinking about profits. For a long time, being loved and enthusiastically supported by the guests, the two brothers only considered saving for investment. Located on a busy street, Phuong Hoang Milk Tea shop is always busy and crowded. Line up to buy milk tea Open for sale from 10am to 11pm, the milk tea shop of two Chinese brothers is always crowded, crowded, only at noon will be more crowded. The shop is located at the corner of a busy intersection, but the space is too small, so it only serves customers to take away. During peak hours, guests will line up in 2 rows. No matter how long they wait, everyone is patient, not pushing or jostling. Those who come see too many can come back later. “We are determined not to sell to anyone. Whoever comes first sells first, according to order. We trade civilized, the young people who come to buy also know the rules and queue very nicely”, Mr. Kiet said, take a long time to guide customers to stow the car so as not to block the road of other vehicles. The water dishes at Phuong Hoang are prepared according to Taiwanese recipes. No matter how crowded the customers are, the 2 shopkeepers are still enthusiastically welcoming. Talking about the rumor of “cheating, buying too much does not sell”, Mr. Kiet said: “There is no such thing, just when the customers are crowded, everyone tries to order all the dishes so that we can do it at once, avoiding the call. It is easy to be mistaken. If customers buy a lot, they still sell, customers love and support us forever, I’m happy. ” Phuong Hoang has more than 80 dishes on the menu, but the bestsellers are traditional milk tea, fresh milk with pearls, black sugar and Thai green. Diners often ask for more pearls or cheese jelly to “chew for a crush”. Most of the ingredients are imported from the two men and processed by themselves. Pearls are carefully slugged with sugar water. When washed, they must be skillful so that each ball is smooth and tastes evenly. The jellies and flan cakes are made with its own recipe to ensure the characteristic fat and deliciousness. First life milk tea Located in the famous “culinary paradise” in Ho Chi Minh City, besides the cult milk tea brands, Phuong Hoang still attracts customers thanks to its attractive taste. The majority of customers love this shop thanks to its strong tea flavor, not being sweet, just trying it once to get addicted. Today, many different flavors of milk tea are born, the two brothers Hao and Kiet still want to keep the Taiwanese standard recipe as in the early days. “We have been selling for more than 12 years, customers stick with the store because of the unique taste here. Seeing the customer responding, I am very happy, the menu has so many dishes, but the regular customers only order 8 dishes on the big board “, Mr. Hao pointed at the side menu on the wall and said. Mr. Kiet said the milk tea recipe has not changed since the day of opening the shop. Not only young guests, many uncles living near District 10 are also guests of Phuong Hoang milk tea. Thanks to true Taiwanese flavor, the shop has a lot of Chinese “guts”. “Every time they come, they buy a few glasses, almost order green tea, I know what the customer means so it’s easier to advise,” the 39-year-old owner added. Many visitors come here to ask friends for recommendation or review online. Meanwhile, another said that what kept them at the 12-year-old milk tea shop was the friendliness and affection of the two shop owners. “There are many lovely guests, some people live in the West, Kien Giang, Phu Quoc come to Saigon to buy a few dozen glasses to bring back, let the people try it,” Mr. Kiet excitedly said. Although waiting for a long time, many young guests are still happy, not annoyed. Also a connoisseur of drinking milk tea in many places, Le Thi Huynh Tram – a freshman at the University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City – commented that the drinks at Phuong Hoang are “cheap but quality milk tea 10 points”. . “It doesn’t matter if it’s a brand name milk tea or a popular restaurant, just drink it if you taste it. My favorite is Thai green milk tea here. Waiting in line for a long time but having a good glass of water should find it worth it. When coming, we can try not to interrupt, push, or disturb others, ”said the female student. Like Huynh Tram, Ngoc Anh (22 years old, a student at Ho Chi Minh City Open University) love this milk tea shop because of its deliciousness and affordable price. Because the school is quite far from this place, whenever she has the opportunity to pass by, she also stops by to buy. “I know that this place is recommended by a lover, drinking here must have been about 3.4 years. In the popular milk tea shops, I like this one, affordable for students but also delicious and delicious ”, Anh said. Zing. Phoenix milk tea is cheap but expensive thanks to its familiar taste.