The 40-year-old vermicelli shop is ‘expensive to cut into pieces’, Tran Thanh, Dam Vinh Hung and many Vietnamese stars have all checked-in

There are many restaurants in Saigon that calculate the age of the profession by the number of decades. It sounds simple, but in a big city with so many shops and restaurants, standing for decades like that, the food must of course have its own distinction. Bun rieu carrying Ben Thanh market is such a case.

More than 40 years old, the price of a full bowl of vermicelli in Ben Thanh market is 55,000. But the bowl of vermicelli here is made at a small and moderate level, so it usually just stops at a warm stomach, if you eat well or are hungry, you may have to order 2 bowls, equivalent to 110,000. If you like to pay more, the price will be 10 thousand / tree. Going out to eat a meal of vermicelli costs over a hundred thousand, so saying that vermicelli is expensive to carry at Ben Thanh market, no one will object. But it’s expensive to have quality or in other words, it’s expensive to cut into pieces.

The vermicelli shop in Ben Thanh market attracts attention with its fragrant, colorful broth right at the entrance. – Photo una_1986

Colorful broth and quality crab cakes of the shop. – Photo: stickyinhanoi

First of all, the shop is in a very favorable location, where as Nguyen Thi Lien, the owner of the shop, once revealed to the press, the whole rent for the space is in dollars, not in Vietnamese money. But location is only part of the reason. The main reason for the restaurant to survive is always the food.

Ben Thanh market noodle soup is really different. The broth is sweet and delicious, with a rich crab flavor that makes you crave for just drinking the broth. It is even more worth the money when it is sure, sweet taste of pork and crab meat. Eating such a quality lump of vermicelli is not enough to see that a bowl of vermicelli is just enough to be complete.

It will take an extraordinary amount of energy to resist the allure of this noodle shop. – Photo: mk_love_food

More than 40 years old. But the color, fullness and flavor of the noodle soup is still the same.

It is known that the broth and broth in Ben Thanh market is a private recipe passed down by 4 generations of grandmothers, mothers, and daughters… only close people know how to do it. This is also the secret to causing love and memory to many Saigon diners.

But a bowl of vermicelli in Ben Thanh market, in addition to crab cakes, also has a soft melt of pig and duck blood, golden fried tofu, each bowl adds a piece of red tomato cut into pieces and a little extra scallions. tasty. The bowl of vermicelli at Ben Thanh market will always come with a plate of raw vegetables including split water spinach, Thai bananas, and bean sprouts to combat boredom. Along with that is a tamarind sauce, shrimp paste and ground chili to dip blood, dipping sauce or add to vermicelli if you want to add flavor.

The first bowl of vermicelli will consist of a large piece of currant, a piece of duck blood, pieces of fried tofu, raw vegetables served with a cup of tamarind sauce, shrimp paste with chili. – Photo: _chiecbungdoi_

Simple but true to style and quality are the reasons why this noodle shop has passed 2 generations of mothers and children selling but still crowded, even more and more crowded. Bun rieu at Ben Thanh market is also a place where you can easily meet famous people when Hoai Linh, Dam Vinh Hung, Tran Thanh, Ho Ngoc Ha, Nam Thu, Trac Thuy Mieu… all had check-in photos at the restaurant. Even many international stars in Saigon tourist area also visit this restaurant to enjoy. For example, the “male god” of Thai cinema Pongna Wat (Flame of Virtue) also used to sit on the roadside to enjoy vermicelli in Ben Thanh market.

Many Vietnamese stars have checked-in here.

Tran Thanh, Trac Thuy Mieu and Nam Thu used to dress up as if they were going to a party just to come here to eat vermicelli noodles.

The “male god” of Thai cinema Pongna Wat used to visit this noodle shop to enjoy. – Photo: pongnawat

Ben Thanh vermicelli was originally just a street vendor selling at the East gate of Ben Thanh market. Over the past few decades, that noodle shop has now rented space to have clean seats for customers to eat. But just like that, the child carrying the goods is still so simple, the water is still like the secret of the grandmother and the mother passed down. And this is also the secret of making memories with so many Saigon diners, making Ben Thanh vermicelli become a culinary symbol of the city of thousands of restaurants.

Address: 4 Phan Boi Chau

Price: 30 thousand to 55 thousand VND

Sale hours: 8am to 7pm

Đăng bởi: Hằng Phạm