5 famous street foods “unbearably delicious” of Saigon

If you have set foot in Saigon, you must definitely try these extremely famous street foods.

Snail

It will be extremely flawed if you have not stepped into a popular snail shop on the side of Saigon street. This is an indispensable dish for the people of the city every evening. Although not a coastal city, Saigon still owns hundreds of different snail shops scattered in districts.

Snail is a street food loved by many young Saigonese.

A meal usually includes steamed clams with lemongrass, grilled scallops with cheese, grilled scallops with onion fat, blood snails or roasted crabs with salt and pepper. Snails are always fresh and well seasoned. Prices range from 30,000 to hundreds of thousands of dong a meal, depending on the dish and the address.

Suggested addressVinh Khanh Food StreetSmall shop on Truong Dinh Street (District 3) or Lac Long Quan Street (District 11)
Snail shops in Tan Binh District, District 4 and District 8

Cake mix

This can be said to be a dish that is loved by all ages in Saigon. The “chestnut” price is only from 15,000 to 30,000 VND, which makes mixed rice paper even more popular.

Rice paper is torn into small pieces, sprinkled with dozens of ingredients such as beef jerky, quail eggs, chicken eggs, minced mango, laksa leaves and spices including satay, onion fat, fried onions, peanuts. When mixed well, the flavors of the ingredients blend and are attractive.

Mixed rice paper is present all over the streets of Saigon.

Suggested addressShops on Nguyen Thuong Hien Street
turtle Lake

Pan bread

When you wake up in the morning, if you don’t know what to eat, you can find pan bread. Different from the usual loaf of bread, this dish is attractive when all ingredients are presented in an eye-catching cast iron pan. You will find this rich meal with all kinds of fillings such as omelet, shumai, pate, spring rolls…, priced from 40,000 VND.

Saigon pan bread is famous for its delicious taste and is a favorite dish of many people.

Suggested addressCao Thang Street (District 3)
Ly Tu Trong Street (District 1)

Break Lau

Connoisseurs of snacks when coming to Saigon cannot ignore the attractive, greasy and fragrant brown cup of Pha Lau. The beef is cooked soft and sweet. The broth has added five flavors to make it fragrant. You can find many different versions of Pha Lau such as Pork and Goat, but the most popular is the Beef Depot. The dish is usually served with bread or instant noodles. The price of each meal on the street side is only from 20,000 VND.

Breaking hot pot is a unique dish of Saigon.

Suggested addressShops in market 200 (District 4)Snack alley 76 Hai Ba Trung (District 1)
Ban Co Market (District 3)

Fried dough

Not only famous in Saigon streets but fried dough dish but also popular in Singapore, Malaysia with the name carrot cake or in Thailand with kkanom pak gat. In Saigon, fried dough is often sold in the late afternoon, suitable for snacks or dinner. Rice flour and tapioca flour will be kneaded evenly and tightly. Then the dough is cut into small pieces, fried in a pan of hot oil until it turns golden.

Fried dough is also a dish you can easily see in the streets of Saigon.

Fried dough is indispensable for a little pickled papaya and a cup of dipping sauce prepared by the owners. If you like, you can order more eggs to serve. You only need to spend from 15,000 to 20,000 VND, you can enjoy a delicious and attractive plate of fried dough.

Suggested addressAlley 76 Hai Ba Trung (District 1)
Small shop in alley 185 Vo Van Tan (District 3)

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