Vietnamese love bread, especially baguette! It probably comes from our history when French culture, cuisine have influence on our lifestyle! I'm not an exception! I used love baking bread!
If beef noodle, broken rice are our favorite breakfast, bread or as we say "bánh mỳ" is on the top, because it' mobile, easy to take away! We love our bánh mỳ and we can have it around the clock!
Before we have bread only with Vietnamese pork ham (chả lụa), pâté, chicken floss, sunny side up egg...but now more choices!
From canned fish with tomato sauce, traditional pork skin (bánh mỳ bì) with fish sauce, meat ball (bánh mỳ xíu mại), fish cake (bánh mỳ chả cá), roasted pork (bánh mỳ thịt quay), stew intestine (bánh mỳ phá lấu), grilled pork (bánh mỳ thịt nướng) with sweet black soy sauce, chili sauce. The other day I saw a stall selling bread with stew beef liver (khô bò đen) which usually goes with famous papaya salad! Worth to try!
By the way, just got a news that our bánh mỳ has been considered as one of the world's best street food by Lonely Planet after long survey across the globe! Sounds nice!
If beef noodle, broken rice are our favorite breakfast, bread or as we say "bánh mỳ" is on the top, because it' mobile, easy to take away! We love our bánh mỳ and we can have it around the clock!
Before we have bread only with Vietnamese pork ham (chả lụa), pâté, chicken floss, sunny side up egg...but now more choices!
From canned fish with tomato sauce, traditional pork skin (bánh mỳ bì) with fish sauce, meat ball (bánh mỳ xíu mại), fish cake (bánh mỳ chả cá), roasted pork (bánh mỳ thịt quay), stew intestine (bánh mỳ phá lấu), grilled pork (bánh mỳ thịt nướng) with sweet black soy sauce, chili sauce. The other day I saw a stall selling bread with stew beef liver (khô bò đen) which usually goes with famous papaya salad! Worth to try!
By the way, just got a news that our bánh mỳ has been considered as one of the world's best street food by Lonely Planet after long survey across the globe! Sounds nice!
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| Bread with favorite sunny side up egg (bánh mỳ ốp la) |
But whatever we have now, I and many others are still loyal to the tradition, that's why many bread stalls in Sàigòn are famous for their bread with fantastic pâté, ham, pork or chicken...If you take a walk around some quarters in Saigon, you may find several small bread stalls, street vendors!
Bread with fish cake!
Here you go! Right in the heart of Sài gòn, opposite Saigon Center building. On Pasteur street!
Simple street stall of bread with stew intestine (bánh mỳ phá lấu)!
I remember before only one stall but yesterday I found two! Competition!
Stew intestine (phá lấu) is good if the pork intestine is fresh and well marinated with five-spice powder! Then it should be well cooked, not too soft but chewy enough!
Most important is the combination of thick sweet soy sauce and chili sauce! Some shreds of pickled carrot & white radish, fresh cucumber! Very good!
