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Attending a series of high-priced sidewalk restaurants, but still crowded with customers to eat in Ho Chi Minh City
Only selling popular dishes are present in many places, but these sidewalk stalls sell at “soulful” prices but still attract a lot of diners to enjoy.
Street food in Ho Chi Minh City is famous for its popular dishes of excellent quality. However, there are high-quality sidewalk shops that also come with unbelievably high prices. So why are diners willing to spend a lot of money to enjoy street food like that?
1. Giant wontons on the sidewalk of Nguyen Thai Hoc Street
Carrying noodle soup right at the foot of Ong Lanh bridge is a famous late-night dining place for young people in District 1 because it sells all kinds of noodles, noodles, and soup cakes. But the most special feature here is the ‘super giant’ wonton balls with a plump meat filling. A normal bowl of meat will range from 35,000 to 40,000, the price is slightly higher than other noodles, but if you “play big” and order more sausages or wontons, the price of noodles will go up from 60,000 to 80,000 VND per bowl. However, the ingredients of the bowl of noodles are undisputed, the size of the wonton balls is large, the sausages are thick with meat, the noodles are large, the noodles are small enough, so the later at night, the more diners come to carry the soup. This makes a full meal.
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2. Crab noodle soup 300,000 VND in a small alley in District 6
Located on an alley on Pham Van Chi Street, District 6, Aunt Girl’s crab cake shop is only open from 16 pm but only until 9 pm is sold out. Sometimes, the restaurant is quite crowded with diners, but the number of tables is limited, so we have to wait for others to finish eating to have a seat.
Auntie always scoops food for guests.
At that time and even now, the shop is always associated with the name ‘The most expensive crab cake shop in Ho Chi Minh City’ with the price of 300,000 VND for a bowl of banh chung. Hundreds of dollars have to be spent for a cake full of shredded crab meat, balls, shrimp and meat, so it is also considered worth the price. In addition, the restaurant’s menu has many different prices with many different choices ranging from 70,000 to 100,000 VND. Many people think that they do not dare to spend such money to eat a bowl of banh chung, but the shop has existed for more than a decade. And not only selling for 300,000 VND but many people also buy for 500,000 VND or even 1 million VND for a bowl of banh cuon filled with crab meat.
A close-up of a bowl of banh chung is 300,000 VND.
3. Noodle soup ‘curses’ Ms. Huyen in Phu Nhuan district
There are 3 “different” points at this famous noodle shop: only open for sale from about 9:30 am to 5:00 pm every day, every Friday is closed, the owner sometimes “loud” to the staff. and the price is quite high from 50,000 to 100,000 for a mixed noodle dish. However, the shop has been open for more than 40 years and was once famous on social networks. Every day, customers and shippers still come in and out constantly, Huyen the shop owner always makes dishes in the counter.
The shop owner Huyen is always busy.
After going through 8 stages from processing fresh food to seasoning, a complete bowl of water vermicelli is available to diners. In the bowl there are many different dishes such as rare beef, spring rolls, beef balls, minced shrimp… mixed with fatty leopard broth with chicken eggs, covered with fragrant scallions that make anyone unable to resist the attraction of the dish. this.
The bowl of water vermicelli and mixed noodles are very attractive.
4. Broken rice ‘garbage dump’ at district 4 market
The name sounds a bit ‘scary’ but actually this rice shop is very clean and has many dishes for the ‘players’ at night to choose from. In addition to the special name, this broken rice restaurant is also famous for its high price, a plate of rice with grilled ribs is usually up to 50,000 – 70,000 VND. If you want to add food such as eggs, rolls, skin, squid, etc., this night meal will range from 80,000 to 120,000 VND/plate.
Photo: Pham Duc Tin
In general terms, this is not a cheap price for a popular broken rice dish with city people. This is also the reason why broken rice ‘garbage’ is always debated by the online community as to whether it is worth eating or not. But everyone’s taste is different, no matter who says it, the restaurant is still crowded by diners every night, many famous people and foreign tourists come to enjoy.
5. Carrying crab cake soup at Hoa Binh market
Crab soup is indeed one of the dishes with the most ‘erratic’ prices, besides the shops with very cheap prices, the city also has a cake shop with a high price. Located in Hoa Binh market at Bach Van street, district 5, this small banh chung shop with only a few tables is always crowded with customers, the owner has never rested her hands for a moment. Here is famous for the bowl of banh chung that costs 200,000 and even more depending on the size of the crab in the bowl. However, only when eating whole crabs, the bowl of banh chung will have that price, and if you order a normal bowl of 30,000, 35,000, 50,000, and 55,000 VND, the owner will still sell it. Therefore, most guests coming here will order a bowl of 50,000 and sit right next to a glass cabinet full of attractive and delicious ingredients.
The display case is very attractive.
The bowl of banh chung looks ‘drooling’.
6. Nam Dinh Rooster Pho in the alley of District 3
Pho is probably one of the most popular dishes in the city, with dozens of different noodle shops in each district. Among them, there are still very special pho shops like Pho Dau, when the shop is located deep in the alley of Nam Ky Khoi Nghia and only sells in the morning. The price of a bowl of pho here is not cheap, from 65,000 to 75,000 VND per bowl, but this old pho restaurant is still crowded with customers.
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Unlike southern pho restaurants, the pho here is not served with bean sprouts and black sauce, but only with a cup of onion. But also because of that difference, it has created its own “brand”, making it different from hundreds of other pho shops out there.
Photo: Phillip Le
These sidewalk shops are true to the saying ‘quality comes with price’ when making customers spend a lot of money to enjoy. Although there are always controversies around, these shops still have their own value and have existed for many years without wavering.
Attending a series of high-priced sidewalk restaurants, but still crowded with customers to eat in Ho Chi Minh City
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