Mixed bamboo, rice paper, fried noodles, fruit tea… are snacks that are popular with young people in Saigon. Here are 5 online service addresses to help you satisfy your cravings. Aroma Tea House This is the address that many online diners mentioned in recent culinary communities. The shop serves a variety of cool teas from fruits such as strawberry, apple, guava… The restaurant’s menu has a mixed dish that many diners suggest to try. Guest reviews : Ngoc Phuong: “I usually order juice from the shop, which is both delicious and healthy. I have tried apple and mulberry tea with good taste”. August Phan: “I ordered a portion of mixed bamboo and mulberry tea for 79,000 VND. I saw that the shop gave a lot of children, mixed well, and tasted just right. I couldn’t eat the restaurant’s fish sauce because it was too spicy. The tea part was not too sweet but slightly sour, the tea taste is quite clear”. Uncle Vien mixed rice paper This is a familiar place for snack lovers. Ordering to ship home, you can easily choose toppings according to your taste such as fried quail eggs, grated mango, black beef, dried shrimp, dried squid… The restaurant’s rice paper sauce is appreciated by many diners as quite sweet. You can choose between mixed rice paper or rolled rice paper. Guest reviews : Jun: “If you can’t eat spicy, you should remind the shipper. I ordered 2 special bags for 60,000 VND, excluding shipping.” Minh Thu: “I ordered a mixed rice paper bag to try, delivery was quite fast. The order was neatly and cleanly packed. Rice paper and toppings were plentiful, the sauce was quite strong. The minus point is that all toppings are left out. one bag, so it’s quite difficult to mix. It took me 15 minutes to mix the cake to absorb the sauce.” A Mo restaurant A Mo restaurant is the address for you to order snacks online after working and studying hours. The menu of the restaurant is diverse with a variety of drinks and savory dishes presented beautifully. The restaurant also regularly updates new dishes for you to choose from. Guest reviews : Constance Doan: “I ordered a traditional milk tea, added cheese balls. The milk tea was fragrant, not boring. Pearl 5,000 VND/tablet but quite small, the filling was not evenly mixed”. Citastyfood: “A portion of black bean noodles with eggs and kimchi is 29,000 VND. The taste is good, adding fried chicken and fried cheese is also quite good.” Young Tea & Coffee The diverse menu with many types of water and hybrid snacks is the plus point of the restaurant. You can choose from milk tea, fruit tea, silver fu… In addition, the shop also has Korean snacks such as fried noodles, chicken with cream sauce… Some combos of fried pellets with prices about 70,000-150,000 VND is another suggestion worth considering. Guest reviews : Citastyfood: “I order the chicken with greasy cheese sauce and the fried noodles are quite good. One part costs 19,000 VND, adding cheese is 6,000 VND. Those who want to find a hybrid dish can refer to it”. Tan Minh: “The drink menu is diverse. I ordered cocoa cheese cream and green apple tea, which tasted good compared to the price”. Anh Thu: “The shop’s menu is updated regularly, there are many new dishes. I think the milk tea of ​​the shop is also good, not excellent.” April tea shop The shop serves refreshing drinks from fruits such as chrysanthemum longan tea, red apple tea, pink guava tea… In addition, the shop has drinks for sweet lovers such as milk tea, silver custard… The menu has more cakes, pasta to enjoy with some toppings such as chicken balls, sausages, cheese… Guest reviews : Linh K Nguyen: “The drink price is reasonable, suitable for all audiences. The menu is mainly tropical fruit teas, in addition to milk tea. Tiramisu cake has a sharp sweetness, passion fruit cake has a mousse layer. eat chewy”. Citastyfood: “Italian noodles are spread with a lot of cheese, slightly greasy. Cream brulee is soft and melted. Spaghetti with sausage, chicken balls are normal, not much of an impression”.

Breakfast Starting the day with hot noodles is the ideal suggestion for breakfast. The breakfast menu in Ho Chi Minh City is quite diverse for you to choose from such as vermicelli, noodles, banh chung, noodles, vermicelli, pho… In addition, bread is a suitable choice for a quick breakfast. The addresses open early from 6am, suitable for ordering breakfast. Some places you can stay are Bun rieu Yen, Pho Tau Bay, Ky Dong chicken noodle soup, Nam Vang Quynh noodle soup, Banh Nam 110, Banh Nam – Doan Van Bo bread… A delicious breakfast helps you have a productive day. Photo: Agirlaboutchicago, mysteriousaigon. Early morning is also the right time to sip a cup of strong coffee, to keep you awake and full of energy throughout the day. Bottled beverage shops serving milk coffee, black ice, cold brew… home delivery in Ho Chi Minh City include La Viet Coffee, Danshari, Den Da Coffee, The Running Bean… If you don’t like coffee, you can order healthy drinks such as fruit juices, smoothies… Fruit juices not only cool down in the summer but also provide vitamins and increase resistance. during the pandemic. Smoothie Factory Vietnam, Juice Up Saigon, Légumes, Fresyo… are home delivery juice shops that are highly appreciated by customers. Fresh juice helps to purify the body, good for health during the epidemic season. Photo: Unsplash. Lunch The hot weather at noon is suitable for enjoying cool dishes, lots of green vegetables, less fat. If you are bored of home rice, you can refer to the dishes below. Cold noodles are the perfect choice for lunch for Korean foodies. The fresh dish resonates with many ingredients such as cucumbers, boiled eggs, seaweed, and pickled radishes, mixed with spicy sauce. Yoo Chun, Seoul House, Bornga Restaurant are addresses to deliver cold noodles to the place in Ho Chi Minh City. The dishes that use less heat are suitable for lunch. Photo: The_monster_eater, taovachuoi, anvatsonca, damanfood. With diverse flavors, cold noodle dishes are loved by diners on summer days. Vermicelli with grilled meat is easy to eat, suitable for many people’s taste by combining many attractive ingredients such as raw vegetables, cucumbers, sour foods, grilled meat, spring rolls, sweet and sour fish sauce. Ms. Tuyen, Hai Dang, and Hoang Van are suggested addresses to order grilled meat vermicelli in Ho Chi Minh City. Meanwhile, seasoned vermicelli noodles are loved by diners because of their bold and unforgettable taste. If you like noodles in the Central region, you can order at Co No, Aunt Bay, Quang Da Assembly Hall… Spring rolls or beef jerky are light snacks, suitable for changing flavors on a hot day. Goi cuon consists of familiar ingredients such as vermicelli, raw vegetables, meat, shrimp, dipped with soy sauce, seasoning sauce. And beef bea combines richer ingredients such as sausages, dried shrimp, fried eggs, bean sprouts… These delectable dishes are found in Goi cuon Hanh, Bo Bia Ly, Goi cuon Jumping shrimp .. . Supper If you can’t hang out at a restaurant to warm your stomach in the late afternoon, you can order snacks at home. Mixed rice paper, beef dry salad, mixed bamboo are fun dishes that attract Saigon’s youth, suitable to sip in the late afternoon. These “chestnut” dishes are found in many places such as Chu Vien mixed rice paper, Ong Nam beef dry salad, Tre mixed with Cu Sua… Snail dishes are also an interesting choice for seafood lovers. Stir-fried lentils with coconut, fried snail noodles with water spinach, and flavored snails with salted egg sauce… are attractive flavors, inviting diners in HCMC. Snail 219C, snail Dao, snail Quynh are places to order popular seafood dishes. Snail is a food that stimulates the taste buds at dinner. Photo: Meagiemm, selenatranvn. Desserts such as yogurt, tea, cakes… are also good suggestions for dinner. Ho Chi Minh City has many Chinese tea shops that ship to the place of summer refreshments such as dew, tubers, red beans, ginseng … Ha Ky, Tuong Phong, Thanh Tam are the addresses you can visit. survey. Dinner After a long day of work and study, the evening is the ideal time to relax and enjoy a cozy meal with family. Beef hotpot, chicken hotpot with é leaves, hotpot with fish sauce… are familiar Vietnamese dishes, suitable for many people’s taste. Meanwhile, if you like new flavors, you can order Thai hot pot or Taiwanese hot pot to take home. Ho Chi Minh City has many door-to-door delivery shops for you to choose from such as Ti Chuot Beef Hot Pot, Rakuen, Chang – Modern Thai Cuisine… Smoky hot pots create a cozy dinner at home. Photo: Foodholicvn, honay_tuiangi_. If you have to work late into the night, you can fill your stomach when you order at a late-night delivery restaurant. Eat Night SG, open from 16h to 12h, is a fast food delivery address that is loved by Saigon foodies. The menu is mainly Korean dishes such as gimbap, tokbokki, mixed rice… Alo Night Owl is a favorite nighttime delivery address in Ho Chi Minh City. The menu is mainly regular dishes such as rice, fried rice, noodles, noodles, vermicelli, porridge… The shop accepts food orders with orders of 50,000 VND or more and only delivered within a radius of 8 km. Ngoc Y Dumplings operate from 23h to 1h, is the address to enjoy Chinese dishes. Shipments are diverse, with prices from 30,000 to 60,000 VND. Dumplings, noodles with char siu, noodles with dumplings, squid beard… are popular suggestions for late-night dining here. Chinese dishes help diners feel full late at night. Photo: Ansapsaigon, willis.pham.

Aphids is a type of beetle, most commonly found in Bay Nui, in two districts of Tinh Bien, Tri Ton (An Giang) and the southwestern border region. Aphids reproduce in large numbers at the beginning of the rainy season and last for about a month. This time is usually from April to May of the lunar calendar, depending on whether the year rains sooner or later. In the past, leafhoppers were considered harmful insects for farmers because they often bite young shoots, especially in mango, mulberry, and cashew trees… But recently, people in the border areas have discovered it. how to fry aphids, turn this insect a delicious and nutritious dish. Since then, many people have sought to hunt to process aphids into a unique delicacy, notably the deep-fried mealybugs. The beetle has a beetle-like shape, the size of a thumb, brown cockroach wings, short body, wings, very hard head and legs, but soft and round body. The sage beetle is dry, does not bite like some other insects. The people of this country consider this a “unique” dish, only eating for 1-2 months a year. Therefore, new beetles become a specialty. The way to catch leafhoppers during the day is to pick up cow dung, dry buffalo dung and burn it for smoke to rise to the sky. After a while, the beetles smelled the smell and just flew away, dancing in the smoke. People kept holding brooms to beat the bugs to the ground and then put them in baskets. Hunting beetles at night is simpler and more gentle. The catcher just needs to hang a bright lantern right under the mango tree, where there are beetles gathering on the tree. Just a few minutes later, the light-loving beetles were flying and falling on the ground. The Bay Nui leafhopper is larger than a thumb with a characteristic shape of the beetle, so it looks “difficult to swallow”. However, when they have passed through the hands of the housewives in the mountains, they seem to have completely molted. In the past, beetles were considered the food of the poor. But today, this insect has become a specialty, becoming a favorite dish not to be missed in restaurants and pubs. Just like how to process rice crickets, nymphs or scorpions, hoppers only need to be cleaned by removing wings, legs and gutting, then rinsing with warm water mixed with salt. Then, the cook marinated the beetles with sugar, MSG, pepper, and garlic for about 20 minutes, then caught the pan to fry until crispy. The food stalls and restaurants will have a beautiful presentation, while the dishes of the people in the countryside are simple and rudimentary, but the taste is also crispy, fragrant, fatty, and not inferior. People who know how to make aphids when removing their intestines will not squeeze all their eggs, because the eggs are very delicious and fatty, once eaten, they will remember forever. Crispy fried beetle can be served with raw vegetables, tomatoes, cucumbers and salt and pepper with lemon. Just like eating fried scorpions, people who eat aphids for the first time often feel scared because the animal is ugly and the color is not fresh and attractive. The eater just needs to put it in his mouth to bite, the taste will immediately spread, the fat of the meat penetrates into each tooth root, not mixed with any other flavor. Photo: IT. Invite readers to watch the video “Smoked land – Strange dishes of Vinh Phuc people”. Source: VTV3.

I went to Le Petit Resto ‘, mid-summer midday in early April. Ms. Nguyen Thi Thanh Xuan’s European restaurant (57 years old) is nestled in Le Van Duyet alley, Binh Thanh district. Diners to the restaurant can go from the direction of Bong Bridge or along the bank of Truong Sa embankment. The space of the restaurant is quite narrow and not too special. However, what impresses me the most is that European dishes are quite affordable, even 50% lower than the Western stores I have tried. “The shop sells mainly for profit, the customer is happy and delicious,” Ms. Xuan smiled when I asked about the “chestnut” price here. Serving Western dishes from 30,000 VND The shop does not have a parking space. I have to keep the car about 10 meters away. Opening the order menu, I understood why European dishes here are so popular with young people. The Western menu is quite rich, from salad dishes, chicken with sauce, chips … to full stomach like pizza, pasta, steak … The price ranges from 29,000 to 179,000 VND / piece, which is a plus point. for the restaurant to hide in the alley. For a rather sultry day, I ordered a plate of tuna salad and homemade aloe vera juice. Try the first salad, the cool feeling of vegetables, tomatoes, corn hits the tip of the tongue, followed by the rich, sour taste of tuna with vinegar sauce. “The vinegar oil at the shop makes special than many other places,” the owner confidently introduced me. According to the owner, diners come here often like pasta dishes with cream sauce, baked pasta … because the taste is easy to eat and the price is “chestnut”, only about 45,000 VND. Middle-aged people prefer more premium foods like beefsteak, pizza, and grilled salmon. In addition to salty food, the shop also sells desserts including mango pudding and cream brulle, priced at 30,000 VND. Seafood spaghetti is the restaurant’s favorite dish. Photo: Hai Nhi. Many customers of the restaurant also share their feelings with me. A gourmet named Huy (Phu Nhuan district) was surprised when he received the bill. His family’s 6-course meal costs approximately 500,000 VND. The owner shared that the children’s hobby of Western food was the inspiration to open the restaurant. “I hope everyone can try Western clothes at affordable prices, especially young people who don’t have too much money,” said Ms. Xuan. According to my observations, the restaurant not only attracts young people, some middle-aged customers or families also come here to enjoy European food. The space is quite narrow, about 10 m2, including 7-8 dining tables. I arrived at more than 11am, when the shop just opened, but the number of customers was quite crowded, only 2-3 tables were empty. The space of the restaurant is quite narrow, but there are still large groups and families coming to eat. Photo: Hai Nhi. Ms. Xuan’s restaurant was opened more than 5 months ago. Initially, the shop was just a narrow place with few tables and chairs, with low rental costs to do business. Later, the shop moved to a new location a few units away from the old place, to have more space. The owner said the cost of premises per month is about 20 million VND. The staff quickly decorates to deliver the food to the guests. Photo: Hai Nhi. The vitality inside the narrow kitchen Storing culinary quintessence, kitchen is considered the soul of every restaurant and restaurant. Entering Le Petit Resto’s kitchen, the aroma of sauces and roasted meat immediately aroused my sense of smell. The special feature of the restaurant is that the staff is quite few, most of the employees are family members. In addition to Ms. Xuan, she also has 2 younger sisters who are in charge of the kitchen, and 1 person is washing dishes. Recently, because customers are crowded, she has hired a kitchen assistant and 2-3 service staff. Her two daughters take turns serving, concocting, billing and closing the books at the end of each month after school and work. The cooking space is quite small, including 4 kitchen people and 2 waitresses in and out to receive food and bring it to guests. Ms. Xuan is considered the “captain” here, directing the kitchen assistants to prepare ingredients and decorate dishes. Each person in the kitchen undertakes a different task, but almost everyone is in a tight limb, urging each other to work to make food quickly. When I went in, apart from Ms. Hoa main cooking and 1 chicken fry, the other two kitchen assistants were preparing vegetables and setting the dishes on a plate to decorate. Bustling atmosphere inside the small kitchen. Photo: Hai Nhi. “There are times when customers are crowded, not in time, everyone in the kitchen has to do many tasks at the same time such as cooking, washing dishes …”, Ms. Hoa said while preparing beefsteak. When talking to me outside, she appeared to be a gentle, gentle woman. By the time she entered the kitchen, she became energetic, resourceful, focusing on cooking and guiding the work for the staff. That was when I learned that the owner had more than 20 years of culinary experience, and used to be the chef of a famous hotel in Ho Chi Minh City. However, Ms. Xuan is not a “race child” in the culinary industry. “I came from an accountant background, I did not have a job, and was introduced to a tour company to try out. At first, I just thought of cooking for fun. Who expected the chef and the cook. Deputy sure sees that I am gifted, so he always has a career. Since then, the profession of kitchen has followed me until now, “she said. Perhaps more than 20 years of cooking experience has made Ms. Xuan’s kitchen operation quite flexible and professional. On the hot fire, she quickly turned the steak, adding a little butter to increase the creaminess. “Beefsteak is very difficult to cook. Depending on whether you want to eat medium or rare, you have a different cooking time,” Ms. Xuan said. Ms. Xuan is preparing the beefsteak for the guests. Photo: Hai Nhi. Thanks to old relationships, the shop has a familiar source to import seafood, beef, and salmon ingredients … and sell them all during the day, absolutely not to leave them overnight. This ingredient is processed from 8:00 am to 11:00 am, not ready to be refrigerated. Therefore, the sauce is hot and fragrant, keeping the original flavor when delivered to diners. Normally, Ms. Xuan will get up early from around 4:00 am to 5:00 am to do housework, then go to the market to buy snacks, then go to the shop to prepare sauces and preliminary processing of ingredients. An employee of the restaurant is frying chicken. Photo: Hai Nhi. The average cooking time for each dish is about 15-20 minutes. “Sometimes customers keep remorseful, so we have to try to manipulate quickly. The shop doesn’t pre-process before,” said Ms. Xuan. Therefore, guests may have to wait a bit longer than other restaurants. After beefsteak finished, she began to cook crab noodles again. The bustling atmosphere is evident in the small kitchen. People not only pay attention to their part but also remind each other to create the perfect dish. The conversation between me and Ms. Xuan was continuously interrupted by the staff’s urging. Ms. Xuan spoke while quickly stirring the spices over the fiery red pans. “Sometimes the customers are too crowded, do not make up the dishes in time, Xuan skips the decor step,” the owner of the shop turned to tell me. Kitchen space is hot, narrow, but no one employee complains. Photo: Hai Nhi. A special feature of the restaurant is that it does not use monosodium glutamate. The pure European dishes are seasoned with rich flavors, slightly modified to suit Vietnamese tastes. According to Ms. Xuan, if cooked as the restaurant, the taste is quite faint, Vietnamese customers are not used to eating. “Working as a European kitchen is very hard. My two daughters do not follow their mother’s career”, Ms. Xuan said. She said that her oldest daughter is a doctor, the other is studying pharmacist in the third year. All the accounting jobs of the restaurant are also done by the two daughters, so there is no need to hire more people. The shop is open from 11am to 2pm, then has a lunch break. In the afternoon, from 17:00, the shop started to sell again until the stock was out. “There are days when guests come from 16:30. I also let them in but have to wait until the right time to have food”, Ms. Xuan shared. Tran Vu: “Small and beautiful restaurant. Delicious food, cheap price is the advantage of the restaurant”. Thuy Trang: “The restaurant has a small and cozy space. Two people should order a combo to eat many dishes. Beefsteak, tuna salad, baked seafood pasta with cream sauce, pizza, pasta are the must-try dishes”. Minh Hien: “The shop is in an easy-to-find location, wide alley. The space is a bit small, not suitable for large groups of people. Nice presentation is a plus point”. Mai Thy: “Fast food, no need to wait”. Pm Food Travel: “Although European food has had a variation, I find the taste is still a bit pale”. Let’s eat pizza for 400,000 VND in Ho Chi Minh City Zing compared two high-priced cheese pizzas. With a difference of over VND 30,000, 4P’s Burrata Parma Ham pizza impresses more than Logic Baked Prosciutto and Burrata Salad.