HCMC Restaurant List Updates: June 2024
More desserts and a trip to Taipei
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.
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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:
The most interesting thing about June was my trip to Taipei last week. It was a short, second visit to the city and confirmed just how much I like it and why I thought of living there before I decided on Saigon. You can read about some of my notable eats at the bottom of the post, but my main goal for this return trip was to eat as many radish cakes and bowls of lu rou fan as I could. As is always the case with my eating agendas, if I got to eat some other tasty things that’s just bonus. I love the feeling of wanting to eat at a restaurant again, and I love when that feeling happens throughout a holiday. From inexpensive eats to celebratory fine dining, I ate tremendously in Taipei and think it is an amazing city for eating and drinking. It is also an incredible place for passionate diners as getting a reservation at top spots can. be. rough.
As for eating in Saigon, I tried my best to order less lunch delivery so that I could have more room in my budget for some pricier dinners out. The balance worked out for my wallet but not for my ability to share much new in this post. Lots of solid eating, but it was hard to pick an MVP meal of the month—remember I’m keeping it local rather than highlighting one of the holiday restaurants.
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