HCMC Restaurant List Updates: August 2024
Lots of newbies and a pizza topping triumph
Welcome back to an intended monthly and unintentionally lengthy* overview of my dining adventures here in Saigon. These regular updates are for paid subscribers and include places I’ve newly added to my HCMC Restaurant List, mentions of ones I’ve returned to recently, and anything notable from places I visit regularly enough to consider my Steady Dates. They all reflect my tastes, interests, and preferences and shouldn’t be thought of as an essential guide to city eats.
*These overviews are longer than will appear in your email, so if you’re a paid subscriber, please do click out to read the full post on the web and view all the photos.
I hope adding colour to the list each month makes it both more useful and more interesting. I’m happy that I’ve moved the bulk of the who/what/where/why of my eating adventures from Instagram to the newsletter. Having these posts be paid is not about gatekeeping. It is more of a nod to the amount of effort I might put into finding places and as a fun thank you to paid subscribers given the more emotional nature of my other paid content.
At the end of every month, I post photos on Instagram of what you can read about below. If you don’t follow me there, here are the monthly visuals for Saigon:
Despite knowing that I am an unapologetic creature of habit, I always feel like I need to preface these updates with an apology for not trying enough new things. But taking stock with these updates proves that I indeed do! Probably more than any other city I’ve lived in. I’m just hard on myself. And as is clear in recent posts, I wouldn’t say I’ve had a very happy summer. So I should not feel bad for letting myself enjoy familiarity if that’s what the moment calls for. When you’re feeling blue, familiarity can be about its convenience more than anything.
MVP meal of the month gets bestowed to a place that knows how to pour the kind of glass of wine you want at the end of your day or start of your weekend. Or really on any wine occasion?
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