Ho Chi Minh City - the most modern and dynamic economic center in the country
Located in a favorable geographical location, Ho Chi Minh City is the meeting point of the Southeast region and the Mekong Delta, with Saigon Port acting as the international gateway of the whole country in import and export activities. Up to now, Ho Chi Minh City has become the most modern and dynamic economic center in the country.
Along with that, the climate with two rainy and dry seasons, warm all year round is also a favorable condition to attract people from all over the country to live, study and work. The vibrant and diverse economic and social flow is an important factor that brings together in Ho Chi Minh City many typical values of local culinary culture, making the cuisine here rich, abundant and attractive. If the beauty of Hanoi cuisine lies in its sophistication and elegance, the beauty of Ho Chi Minh City cuisine lies in its sophistication and elegance. Ho Chi Minh City is in constant change, in diversity and unique variations.
On the journey to explore Ho Chi Minh City, visitors can easily find regional dishes, from bread, pho, banh canh, banh da, banh xeo, banh trang to vermicelli, hu tieu...
The Southern city is a mixture of skyscrapers, luxury restaurants among sidewalk stalls, street vendors, sidewalk coffee, rustic hu tieu - where you can sit on plastic chairs, eat while watching the busy traffic on the street.
Ben Binh Dong - traditional features in a modern space
The colorful culinary picture of Ho Chi Minh City
The culinary flavors of Ho Chi Minh City are flavors of hundreds of regions, flavors of all places. Veteran writer and journalist Pham Cong Luan, author of many famous books about the cultural life of this city, in his book "Saigon - The life story of the city" wrote: "Culinary names from other regions have come to Saigon to open restaurants such as Pho Lo Duc, Cha Ca La Vong, Nem Ninh Hoa, Ga Tam Ky, and then Korean, Thai, Indian, Japanese, Italian restaurants... countless. [...] It is undeniable that delicious dishes from everywhere like to gather in Saigon to exist and develop in their own journey, to create a colorful face for Saigon's culinary life."
Although there is a saying “eat in District 5, sleep in District 3, hang out in District 1”, but anywhere in Ho Chi Minh City, visitors can find delicious food. If you want to enjoy Central cuisine, you can go to Ba Hoa market in Tan Binh district, where you will taste Quang noodles, vermicelli with fish sauce, Central Vietnamese pancakes, banh beo, banh bot loc and countless other specialties at very affordable prices.
The harmony and meeting of many cultures has created one of the most interesting creations of Saigon cuisine, which is broken rice - a dish praised as the soul of Ho Chi Minh City cuisine. Broken rice is eaten with many dishes such as fried eggs, pork skin, grilled pork ribs, fried fish cakes, drizzled with a layer of delicious scallion oil, served with cucumber, tomato, fish sauce...
In addition to broken rice, Ho Chi Minh City street food also attracts tourists with dishes such as rice paper, salty sticky rice, spring rolls, including banh mi - a dish once ranked in the top 10 best street foods in the world.
Banh mi used to be an imported dish, but over time, today's banh mi has been cleverly transformed to suit the taste of users and has become an important part of the culinary culture of Ho Chi Minh City people. In the past, the city had French bakeries, which usually had a dense bread and sold cold cuts upon request. Over time, this dish was adapted by locals, the bread did not need to be too dense, but had a crispy crust, inside there was pate, a few slices of meat, served with many types of vegetables such as cucumber, radish, shredded carrots, onions and cilantro. The convenience, reasonable price and attractive flavor of banh mi make every tourist visiting Ho Chi Minh City definitely have to enjoy this famous dish.
Tourists coming to Ho Chi Minh City also tell each other about delicious - nutritious - cheap sticky rice shops. Sticky rice is served with chicken, pork roll, char siu, pate, pork floss, Chinese sausage, and some places even combine it with dried shrimp to create a delicious and unique flavor. To fully experience Saigon street food, visitors should not forget to enjoy a bowl of noodles. While traditional Nam Vang noodles only have minced meat, Saigon noodles are full of heart, liver, stomach, shrimp and quail eggs. The creativity of the people here is limitless, and with their skillful hands, they have created many different noodle dishes, from beef ball noodles, fish noodles, satay noodles to stewed offal noodles...
When it comes to phá lấu, this is a dish that carries a part of the urban memories of the people of Ho Chi Minh City. Phá lấu pot is made from the intestines, heart, liver of cows, pigs or ducks and is often eaten with bread or rice. This unique combination has contributed to the brand of Saigon street food.
Besides savory dishes, the city also has many types of cakes. There are stalls selling traditional cakes such as banana cakes, sponge cakes, pig skin cakes, and there are also Chinese bakeries such as quai vac cakes and pineapple cookies. The delicious and attractive cakes of Saigon have now become specialties for tourists to give as gifts when visiting Ho Chi Minh City.
One of the things that creates the irresistible appeal of Ho Chi Minh City cuisine is the sauces and dipping sauces. This inspiration has also created MAGGI's soy sauce - oyster sauce - seasoning products so that you can make dishes with a strong Vietnamese flavor. Now, visitors can prepare, learn and discover many unique and fresh dishes for their family meals.
Over the past 88 years, MAGGI has become a companion of many generations of Vietnamese consumers by connecting families and communities with delicious dishes. Realizing that Vietnamese cuisine is not only diverse and rich in recipes but also a natural cultural feature formed in life, MAGGI and the Tourism Information Center - Vietnam National Administration of Tourism have joined hands in the project "Variations - Thousands of ingredients, Cooking millions of Vietnamese dishes" to help preserve and promote the cultural and culinary diversity of 63 provinces and cities. Anyone can create delicious dishes from local ingredients to contribute to preserving and enhancing the beauty of Vietnam. Together, let's create the largest culinary map of Vietnam
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