MinMinBeads: Vietnamese Food

The guy always have beer.

The lady who carried this stack of books and went around trying to sell them.

Orange juice

Vietnamese fried springrolls

Chicken pho which tasted just right. Not too salty or too heavy on its taste.

Ever tried drinking beer by the roadside on a stool with many other foreigners and watch the motorcycles and people pass by? That was what we did on our first night at Ho Chi Minh!

It only cost you VND 16k for a bottle of "Tiger crystal" that is around SGD1 according to the exchange rate at the time we were there.

Cheaper than a bottle of 500ml mineral water in Singapore.

Oh well, we ladies did not even finish half the bottle of it.

The rice to go with the sweet and sour pork.

Sweet and sour pork. We expected the pork to be fried and then stir fried with the sauce. But it was a totally different way of cooking it.

BBQ pork with vietnamese sausage.

Pineapple juice

The huge plate of vegetables to go with the spring rolls.

Rice paper

Fish sauce

First step: open up the rice paper.

Beef wrapped in vegetables and barbecued

Pick up some vermicelli together with the beef rolls when you eat.

Chocolate, coconut and green tea flavor pudding.

Mangoes, pomelo and watermelon are easily found in Ho Chi Minh. We wanted to eat papaya and apples to aid in our indigestion during the trip but it was so hard to find them.
You can see stalls by the roadside selling fruits with a packet of salt and chilli powder like this:

Pomelo

Mango

Barbecue squids

They have a special way of eating seafood here. Mix the dish of salt and chilli together and squeeze some lime juice on it. Stir the mixture and dip your seafood in it. The taste was good such that it complements well with the taste of the various seafood.

The duck egg with the embryo in it.The feathers are still intact. I requested the guy who sat beside us for us to take picture of it.

Snail shells.

Clams

King crab.

The local version of the "chendol" with red beads at the bottom, green jelly and pomegranate at the top with coconut milk poured over it.

Chicken noodles

Pancake with lots of beansprouts and prawns in it.

A restaurant where you can find all sorts of Vietnamese food here.

Chicken and sticky rice

Coconut drink

Cuttlefish salad

Snails with butter

Fried frogs with butter

Hot pot in "Nguyen style".

Altar like this can be seen everywhere in Ho Chi Minh, at every single stall at the night market and every single restaurants and cafeterias too.

Mocktails for the ladies.

Noodles with crab hue paste.

Korean fastfood "Lotteria" in Ho Chi Minh.

The famous "Banh Pia" pastry that has salted egg and durian as the filling very much like our local "Tau Sa Pia". We bought a bag to bring bag to the hotel to try and went back to bag a total of 14 packets the day before we flew back. There were stalls that offered different prices. One offered VND 50k and another offered VND 35k. We got it from the stall which offers the same thing for a cheaper price of course.

Weasel coffee beans that can be seen all over the market. The weasels are fed with the coffee beans and passed out which are then washed, dried and packaged. Many of them being sold at the market are fakes.