Ho Chi Minh City Restaurant Tips by pez

Restaurant Name: Cafe AQ

Great cafe in a 140-year-old traditional building, one of the oldest in Saigon. Coffee beans are roasted in a traditional Vietnamese fashion in a clay oven. Very cool space, great young crowd.


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Directions: 5-minute taxi ride north of downtown District 1.
39 Mac Dinh Chi, where it meets Tran Cao Van.

Restaurant Name: Quan An Ngon

One of the hippest restaurants in HCMC, a fairly traditional building surrounded by a kitchen (yes, surrounded). Feels like you're eating in a market, you can go around and watch the scores of chefs cooking. Not tourist-friendly except for the english translations on the menu. Brilliant.

Favorite Dish: Anything

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Directions: 138 Nam Ky Khoi Nghia, half a block from the former Presidential Palace.

Restaurant Name: Com Nieu Saigon

Off-the-chart amazing food, your mouth will be electrified for hours. To a Westerner it's a dive. Go for the food. Not tourist-friendly. Order the crispy rice (com nieu, the restarurant's namesake). Cooked in a clay pot, they shatter the pot, fling the rice past the faces of suprised diners into the capable hands of your waiter. Sure it's a gimmick, but it's cool and tastes great. Again, not tourist-friendly, go with a local.


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Directions: 6C Tu Xuong, District 3 (5 minute cab from downtown District 1)