Street food is a special culinary point of Vietnam, especially in Sai Gon, every type of food can be found here, so junk food too.
As a tourist, walking around Sai Gon, either central districts or narrow alley of nowhere, you see people selling junk food everywhere and anytime. You may want to try at least one time in your life something new. Follow this link http://diadiemanuong.com/home/f13/nhung-quan-ngon-le-duong-sieu-dong-khach-71233/ to discover how, what and when Vietnamese eats junk food.
- A light healthy junk food: crab pottage
Let’s try crab pottage when you’re a little hungry but don’t want a big meal in a closed restaurant. They put some plastic chairs with small table, it starts from 12:00 pm till 10:00 pm at 84 Nguyễn Du str., D.1 (the crossroad of Nguyễn Du str. and Pasteur str.). Most people said junk food is unhealthy, how’s about this one: it has chicken flesh, crab, corn, quail egg and prettifies with some coriander that makes it more tasty.
2. Rolling mission and try water fern cake
Or take a bike go to this place 304A Lý Thường Kiệt str., Ward 6, District Tân Bình starting from 6:00 pm to 9:30 pm. Challenging yourself with rolling (famous food style of Vietnam).
Take a rice paper, add pork meat, some vegetable, then a corn spring roll (rice paper stuffed with mashed corn), dip your roll in the bowl of special sauce (they have two type of sauces to choose). If the rolling is not enough, try out their water fern cake (steamed rice pancake) covered with meat sauce.
3. The next one is the shaken rice cracker.
The newest and hottest junk food in Sai Gon now. Bite into the rice crackers are well shaken with cheese powder, crunchy and tasty from the cheese. It can replace pop-corn or snack to be your best friend while enjoying movies. It can be kept crispy for 2 or 3 hours. Go to this address to taste it: 92 Nam Kỳ Khởi Nghĩa str., D.1 starting from 3:00 pm to 8:30 pm, weekend starts from 2:00 pm to 8:30 pm
4. My favorite: mix rice paper
Last but not least on my today’s junk food list is mix rice paper. Vietnam is famous for products made from rice, rice flour; rice paper is one of those.
Teenagers and young people love this junk food, you can be addicted with this special mix. The rice paper is cut into small pieces. The mix ingredients include: green mango, small dried shrimp, special prepared beef’s lung or can change to dried beef, quail eggs, peanut, Vietnamese coriander, juice of kumquats, chili powder (can adjust for your taste). The flavor is the combination of spicy, oily, juicy, sour, salty and a little sweety.
This can be found everywhere in Sai Gon, but the best place to try is Hòa Hảo str., right in front of block S, Ngô Gia Tự Apartment Building, D.10, starting from 5:30 pm to 10:30 pm.
Let’s count how many of them you dare to try out. Happy weekend ☺
