What to eat on a rainy day in Ho Chi Minh City?

During rainy days, you and your loved ones can choose to enjoy beef hot pot, vermicelli, crab cake … Here are some places you should not miss.
Rainy day, if you are wondering if you have not found a delicious food to enjoy, the following 5 suggestions you can consider.

Hot Pot

Hotpot is one of the favorite dishes that many people choose in rainy days. Ho Chi Minh City has no shortage of restaurants serving different hot pot dishes from many regions. Beef hot pot, fish sauce hotpot, crab hot pot … are some suggestions for you to choose from.

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Some references:

1. Ms. Thao beef hotpot

Address: Ho Thi Ky, District 10

Opening hours: 10-23h

Characteristics: Perennial shop, with large space. Here, a set of hot pot with a variety of ingredients including beef, corn, tendons … served with mushrooms, tofu, taro, vegetables, noodles, pho.

1. Hot pot of Ms. Sen’s sauce

Address: Vinh Khanh, District 4

Opening hours: 16-24h

Characteristics: The shop is not too wide. A set of hot pot includes fresh seafood, vermicelli, vegetables … You can order free vegetables. The broth is quite salty, and eaten with vegetables will reduce the taste.

1. Homemade Beans

Address: Nguyen Van Trang, District 1; Hong Ha, Tan Binh district; Hoa Lan, Phu Nhuan district

Opening hours: 10-22h

Features: Crab hotpot with beef cartilage ribs with true North flavor. A hot pot costs about 350,000 VND, for 3-4 people.

Noodle soup

Hot noodle soup is a suggestion for you to save an empty stomach on a rainy day changing seasons in Ho Chi Minh City. A full bowl usually includes tofu, blood, sausages, sliced ​​meat, crab meat, grilled rice … served with raw or cooked vegetables.

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Some references:

1. Thu Nga rice noodle soup

Address: Nguyen Huu Hao, District 4

Opening hours: 11h30-18h

Features: The shop has been sold for more than 30 years. The broth has a mixture of boiled shrimp juice, which is rich and sweet.

1. Bun rieu Bay

Address: Hau Giang, District 6

Opening hours: 18-24h

Characteristics: The restaurant is located on the sidewalk, open until late at night. The broth in and the bar adds tamarind fish sauce, fish sauce, ground chili, and mixed vegetables will be more attractive.

1. Phan Rang snail crab vermicelli

Address: Nguyen Thai Binh, District 1

Opening hours: 6h30-21h30

Features: Snail is separate, stir-fried with spicy taste. Wide space of the restaurant, located in the heart of District 1.

Porridge

Porridge is one of the favorite dishes of Saigonese on a rainy day. You can choose to enjoy a bowl of hot porridge at a variety of restaurants around the city. Each store attracts customers in different porridge dishes.

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Some references:

1. Tieu Co Ut porridge

Address: Cao Thang, District 3

Opening hours: 15h30-22h

Location: Perennial restaurant. The porridge is processed in the Tieu style with toppings such as pork bones, hearts, eggs, meatballs …

1. Ms. Hao rib porridge

Address: Tran Khac Chan, District 1

Opening hours: 15h30-9h30

Characteristics: A familiar nightclub of Ho Chi Minh City people. Various dishes include eggs, squid, puff, tongue, stomach, pork skin, pork skin … Porridge is soft and smooth.

1. Pho Duc Chinh squid porridge

Address: Pho Duc Chinh, District 1

Opening hours: 7-21h

Features: The shop has been selling for more than 30 years. Porridge is cooked with dried squid, dried shrimp and sticky rice to increase the sweetness. In addition to porridge, you can enjoy banh canh, wonton here.

Crab soup cake

Soft chewy banh canh, hot and sweet soup is one of the reasons why many people choose this dish on a rainy day. The taste is easy to eat and rich in nutrition, you can choose to enjoy this dish in luxury restaurants or street vendors.

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Some references:

1. Crab cake soup 14

Address: Tran Binh Trong, District 4

Opening hours: 7h30-24h

Characteristics: Small space. Bread soup is big and chewy, eaten with thick, dark broth. The quality of crab meat is not uniform.

1. Crab cakes with Tran Khac Chan

Address: Tran Khac Chan, District 1

Opening hours: 11-20h

Characteristics: Affordable restaurant in the center of Saigon. The broth is quite liquid and has a pale taste. Canh cake blooms quickly, if you do not eat it, it will lose your taste.

1. Hoang Lan crab cake soup

Address: Vinh Vien, District 10

Opening hours: 10h30-22h30

Characteristics: The broth is stewed from bones, so it has a sweet taste, eaten with shrimp, peeled crab, lean meat …

Beef grill

The fragrant and smoky grilled beef stalls are always the culinary meeting point of many groups of friends on a rainy day. The spiced beef steak mixed with the salted egg sauce served with the salad will surprise you with the taste. It is not difficult for you to find delicious grilled beef shops in Ho Chi Minh City.

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Some references:

1. Street grilled beef

Address: Nguyen Chi Thanh, District 5

Opening hours: 17-23h

Features: The restaurant’s grilled beef dish with salted egg sauce attracts diners. Beef dish marinated with honey grilled with cheese, beef cheese oyster with spicy sauce … quite attractive

1. Cows evade Ut

Address: Tran Hung Dao, District 5

Opening hours: 10-22h

Characteristics: Wide space of the bar. The shop is famous for its grilled beef with salted egg sauce. Come here, you can also enjoy the hot pot.

1. Bake the Saigon tile

Address: Pham Van Dong, Go Vap district

Opening hours: 16h30-23h30

Features: Instead of using an iron grill, you will enjoy the taste of roast beef on the tile. With this special way of baking, the meat is evenly cooked and not scorched.