Another bike ride to discover

It's not easy to ride the bike during the hot season in Sài gòn!
And it's more difficult to ride it in the rain!
This year, too hot! Last week, already twice, the storm clouds gathered and the rain poured down to the city! Early!  The raining season usually starts in Jun or July!

Now only mid of March!

As always I depart from my place in Nguyễn Trải street. Turn right. Right again.
I follow Lê Hồng Phong street to district 10!

Remember? I want to catch grilled sweet potato vendors!
Yes, this time I got them in Sư Vạn Hạnh street. Few of them.

I remember when I was kid, with my brother , curiously, we love to grill small potatoes by putting them
in the charcoal oven! I never knew at that time. My childhood game could become a popular street food. Today!

Grill potato right on the street! Not only potatoes but also corn!
Famous grilled corn with greased green onion!

Street snacks - bicycle ride to discover - Part Four

Sàigòn is changing, a lot!
My old Sài gòn was quiet, more peaceful, more calm and charming!
Sài gòn today is vibrant, joyful, full of good and evil!

One afternoon, I got time and decided to ride on my very good bicycle around the city. To see, to feel and to smell new things that I probably pass by in my routine day!

Heading to district 10, where I often see many stalls of grilled sweet potato, I catch no one. Still early for business? Grilled sweet potato reminds me a winter day in Beijing, when I was on the way to Great Wall. It was really freezing morning, sitting in the bus, through the window, I bought a grilled potato from street vendor!

I follow the stream of cars, motorbikes to Cách Mạng Tháng Tám street, then turn to Nguyễn Thị Minh Khai street to check my favorite Vietnamese kebab but it's closed when I reached there!

No kebab, I stop by a stall of fresh fruit juice - opposite, to quench my thirst with pomelo juice. It was small place before, selling mostly orange, pomelo, centella (rau má) juice. Now bigger stall, richer choice!

Stall of freshly squeezed fruit juice 

I'm impressed by the number of fruit juice they have here. Freshly squeezed juice from apple, pomelo, mango, pear, water melon, centella (rau má) to carrot, winter melon (bí đao), star fruit (khế), aloe vera (nha đam)...I just wonder do they mix with water? or purely squeezed fresh juice? Business secret? 

Whatever you name, they have here!