January 11, 2012
Tiger bones seized from a Hanoi restaurant on Monday Police in Hanoi on Monday found a restaurant cooking tiger bone glue, which is considered a tonic by many people. A tiger skeleton weighing 150 kilograms was being cooked at Tay Bac Quan restaurant at Thanh Xuan District when the police arrived. The Vietnam Science and [...]
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January 8, 2012
Aiko, a Japanese customer, enjoys her favorite Japanese authentic breakfast at Azumaya Restaurant. Photo: Tina Pham To try something new for breakfast last week, I took my friend Aiko’s suggestion to experience the authentic Japanese breakfast offered by Azumaya Restaurant in Ho Chi Minh City. At the early hour of 6 a.m., we saw [...]
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December 5, 2011
CÆ¡m hến (mussel cooked rice) is among the most popular dishes in Hue Many tourists choose Hue just to taste its wide range of sophisticated food. Indeed, taking package tourists to expensive Hue restaurants is an essential component of many tours to the central region city. But that’s not the best way to know the [...]
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November 29, 2011
Quan Bui restaurant at 8 Nguyen Van Nguyen Street, District 1, Ho Chi Minh City serves fish dishes. Pescetarian can easily find tasty dishes in town. “Vegetarian – that’s an old Indian word meaning lousy hunter.” This line from Andy Rooney is on the wall of one of my favorite Ho Chi Minh City [...]
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November 21, 2011
Emergency rooms in HCMC hospitals are witnessing a massive increase in the number of people wounded in intoxicated brawls Patients being treated at the emergency ward of Ho Chi Minh City’s Cho Ray Hospital. Doctors say there has been an alarming increase in cases of people wounded in fights being admitted to the hospitals. [...]
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November 12, 2011
Cuttle fish dish with traditional Vietnamese herbs at KOTO Saigon Just before the turn of the millennium, a restaurant named KOTO Hanoi opened in Vietnam’s capital to give street kids and other disadvantaged children practical experience in restaurant work. Now its namesake has started up in Ho Chi Minh City with the same mission [...]
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October 29, 2011
Basilico restaurant at InterContinental Asiana Saigon offers authentic Italian cuisine. Last Sunday we went to Basilico at the InterContinental Saigon Asiana for an Italian meal. “In Italy, Sunday is our day for pizza. The servings (at Basilico) are quite big so we could share,” suggested my friend from Torino, Italy. With its fountain, stone columns, [...]
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October 22, 2011
Evoking a bygone age, the once ubiquitous clay cooking pot brings out the full flavor of food The Chinese restaurant Dynasty in the New World Saigon Hotel offers ten tantalizing dishes cooked in the clay pot way from October 17 to November 13 Back when Vietnam was mostly an agrarian society, a clay pot [...]
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September 20, 2011
Cod fish Brás style and chicken barbecued at Lisboa café Lisboa café, the first Portuguese restaurant in Vietnam, opened its doors in Ho Chi Minh City last week. After many years living in Vietnam, Pedro Castelo, a Portuguese man, married a Hanoian woman. Upon settling down in HCMC, Castelo opened a Portuguese restaurant on [...]
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September 10, 2011
Central region flavors land in Ho Chi Minh City at Mai Phai Gà lên mâm is made of traditional ingredients such as boiled chicken, assorted vegetables and sticky rice Chicken is a commonly served dish in Vietnamese cuisine. The most familiar version is boiled chicken dipped in a mixture of salt, pepper and lemon [...]
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