"A taste of Vietnam"

Got a suggestion from one online travel agency. Found a video by Daniel Klein.
Almost at the same time! Combined two ideas in one. I came up with this post!

A taste of Vietnam!  

Young American Daniel Klein came to Vietnam for two weeks to discover the country, people's lifestyle in the food culture.
Together with Mirra Fine, camera-girl, Daniel have visited different places.

Halong Bay in the north.
Hanoi. The capital.
Huế.The feudal central.
Mekong Delta in the south.
Saigon. Day and  Night.

They tried a variety of dishes!
They discovered new tastes! Captured surprising moments!
Back home, Daniel launched a video called "A taste of Vietnam"!

Many foods appear in this video. It's short! But enough for us to catch what's Daniel had tried and to

create our own food discovery based on our film-maker's experience.

If you stay here only for few days? How to taste all things that you saw in the video, without traveling
thousand kilometers in Vietnam?

Don't worry and remember! Sài gòn is the largest food hub here, in Vietnam.

Hundred year old market, Bến Thành is one of the food hubs in Sài gòn.  

You can also design your own discovery plan by selecting your most favorite and follow the instructions in "where to go?"

Ok, what we got from Daniel's film?
Quite many!

Some I know exactly what's that! Some I only guess, judging by the look!
Many of them, among Daniel's capture in his film, are really real street food.

Famous Vietnamese beef noodle at Phở Tàu bay  

Beef noodles (phở bò)

In 2005 I have been recommended to check a blog called "Noodlepie" by some English reporter living in Vietnam. He wrote about our street food. Reading his blog, I realized "Wow, so interesting, so many things that I never tried!"

And I never though that I will develop a food blog until today! Taking a break from business, and with support from a friend who is IT expert, I decided to start, to inspire myself by discovering those foods that we can easily find everywhere in Vietnam, on every street, in every corner!

I start my first food blog with a star "Beef Noodles"!

           Phở Minh in small alley on Pasteur street, right in the center of Saigon! 

          Phở Tàu Bay - one of my favorite beef noodles in Saigon! Open only in the morning!  

Beef noodles or as we call here "Phở bò" - one of the most popular and favorite street food for many many Vietnamese and foreigners. Nowadays it's easy to find Vietnamese beef noodles in the States or somewhere else outside Vietnam, but here the best! 

According to my friend, who is a big foodie, he said "There are three elements: beef, soup and noodles. Whenever we want to judge which Phở is the best, we should consider all these three!" He also said "no any Phở in Saigon can meet all three criteria!" 

Anyway we also divide into different groups: beef noodles in Northern style (Phở Tàu Bay, phở Dần), in Southern style (phở Hiền, phở Hòa), in Chinatown (phở Lệ)  and finally beef noodles by some overseas Vietnamese as Phở Hùng, Phở Ta!