Eat Saigon

Author : Elly Thuy Nguyen
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781500577834
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (778 download)

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Download or read book Eat Saigon written by Elly Thuy Nguyen and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-07-19 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Snails fresh off the grill, bowls of fresh dumplings, late-night goat curry, rotten fish soup, and ice cream, ice cream everywhere! Did you think Vietnamese food is just pho? There's some amazing pho here in Saigon, but that's not even the beginning of good eating here! Stay away from the bland, overpriced tourist traps, and follow the trail of in-the-know, food-obsessed Saigonese people for the best Vietnamese meals ever. Come to Saigon and chow down big. This is the newly updated, 2015 edition of Eat Saigon, the insider's guide to eating like a real Saigonese local. This book guides you through twenty Saigonese food categories, and tell you where in-the-know Saigonese people find those foods. Want some grilled pork chops? Or crab and snail soup? Or durian smoothies? Or even Vietnamese microbreweries that have never seen any tourists? It's all in here. You'll be welcomed at each of these places, and even if you don't speak a word of Vietnamese, I guarantee you'll be able to make sense of things. No matter what anyone told you, $10 USD is not a reasonable price for a meal in Saigon! You're being ripped off! And your $10 meal probably has smaller portions and lower quality than my $2 meal. And no matter what any foreign travel writer told you, Ngon is not a good Vietnamese restaurant, and Pho 24 is not a good place for pho! Let me show you some much, much better alternatives. The restaurants I recommend in this book are primarily near the center of the city, easy for you to access, and serve meals costing around 50,000 dong ($2.34 USD). They're the favorites of native Saigonese people like me. You can easily reach them by walking or taking a Vinasun taxi. You'll get by without speaking any Vietnamese -- not just because the language of "hungry" is universal, but also because restaurant staff do speak some basic English, and this book includes Vietnamese phrases you might use in restaurants. The restaurants I recommend have lots of local business already, and don't need to court tourists or guidebook writers. So they don't appear in other guidebooks. In fact, almost all of the restaurants appearing on Tripadvisor or in Lonely Planet are exclusively tourist restaurants, and not only do Vietnamese people not go to them, but Vietnamese people have never even heard of them, unless they work there. So who (or whom) are you going to trust? Millions of Saigonese locals, or some foreign travel writer who just dropped out of the sky? Yes, I thought that would be your answer. Get ready for steaming hot chicken pho. And a dim sum emporium, with Cantonese opera performances every morning, and zero tourists. Oh, oh, and there's always Cambodian pork noodles... ahhhhh! Get over here already. Eat Saigon!