HCMC Restaurant List Updates: May 2024
Lots of desserts and a humble brag
Welcome back to an intended monthly and often 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 often longer than will appear in your email, so if you’re a paid subscriber, please do click out of the email to read the full post and view all the photos.
I hope adding colour to the list each month will make 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 the photos on Instagram of what you can read about below. If that’s all you’re interested in and you don’t follow me there, here you go:
May!
Felt a little meh to me. I’ve been dealing with a long case of post-vacation blues, probably because the vacation involved connecting with friends and was coloured by illness. And then the second week of May I caught a cold. It was mild and short, but there was enough discomfort to make me feel like I haven’t been able to catch a break in a long while when it comes to my health—FYI I’m still coughing. So overall there was a bit of grouchiness and wanting to retreat into comfort instead of the new. Having this monthly post keeps me accountable, however, so there are new eats to mention. That many of them were dessert adjacent is probably related to wanting novel sweet treats to soothe the blues.
However, one big food-related bright spot to mention about May was that I had another article published in Saigoneer. It is a Hẻm Gem profile of one of my favourite restaurants, Sakaba Sasuke. You can read the piece here.
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