Weirdly named dishes in Saigon sound ‘hard to swallow’

When it comes to Saigon, it is considered as a culinary paradise with a series of delicious dishes. Among them, there are many dishes with weird names, just hearing the name makes it difficult to swallow like sticky rice ‘morgue’, broken rice ‘garbage’…

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.