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SAIGON STREET EATS
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V
ietnamese food can
either be a mystery
or a delectable gift.
Just look at the
strange words and
new ingredients, and smell the
fragrant aroma wafting from
kitchens everywhere in this
country. You may have tried
spring rolls and
pho
from your
neighborhood deli, but these
time-honored items are just
the tiny tip of a deep, delicious
iceberg. Vietnamese cuisine is,
in fact, a careful blending of the
five fundamental tastes of spicy,
sour, bitter, salty and sweet — a
cooking philosophy that has
resulted in some of this planet’s
finest street eats.
There’s no better place to
sample this country’s food than
the concrete jungles of Ho Chi
Minh City.
Lester V. Ledesma’s
sunrise-to-sundown
Saigon “eat-inerary”
maps out the
best meals for every
hour of the day
and night
