Ho Chi Minh City these days has been again classified to be one of the world’s top-ten cities for eating out in a list summarized by the travel site at VirtualTourist.com. It was also recommended on column Travel Picks of Reuters.
“Vietnamese culinary art has marked some main street credited in recent memories (Anthony Bourdain’s praise back to thought), and a short tour to Ho Chi Minh City’s Ben Thanh and Binh Tay Markets explains everything,” the tourism website mentioned about Vietnamese foods.
The website lists out well-known dishes in town such as pho, banh mi, bo la lot (grilled beef stuffed in a leaf), spring rolls and com tam (cooked broken rice with a fried egg on top) with some details of fish sauce.
“One member also highlighted that no matter what com tam dish you buy, it will always be eatend with nuoc mam (fish sauce), and since every street food stall often makes their own one, people usually decide which stall to come back to enjoy their nuoc mam,” the website noted.
Virtual Tourist also provides advice for travelers visiting this country for the very 1st time.
“However, due to hawker registration and street food health rules are not very strict in Vietnam, tourists should always be cautious to choose popular, crowded stalls with high rate of turnover.”
Some other cities in this list are Singapore, Bangkok, Marrakech, Penang, Palermo, Istanbul, Brussels, Mexico City, and Beachside Ceviche in Ambergris Caye.
This is not the 1st time Ho Chi Minh City is listed as a nice spot for eating out and street food. Early this year, the city was ranked among the world’s top ten cities for street foods by the US’s monthly culinary magazine Food & Wine.
The famous tourism guide book of Lonely Planet also recommended banh mi as 1 of the most delicious street foods in the world.