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Quan An Ngon Restaurant

Cuisine Hours Address Location Phone Prices Credit Cards Vietnamese Daily 6:30am-11pm 138 Nam Ky Khoi Nghia District 1, Around Town 08/829-9449 Main courses 7,000 VND-55,000 VND (45$3.65/0.25-2) AE, MC, V

Ngon means "delicious," and, for authentic Vietnamese, this restaurant lives up to its name and gets my vote for the best in Vietnam. Ngon has become a real Ho Chi Minh institution and is always packed with both locals and tourists; they've even built a new location nearby to handle the overflow. The atmosphere is chaotic: a cacophony of laughing, chattering guests, shouting waiters, and clanging pots and pans. Seating is a mix of regular table dining in the central colonial or in the balcony or courtyard out back. The main building is surrounded by cooking stations, each serving a regional specialty. The menu is a survey course in Vietnamese cooking, and the tuition is low. Go with a Vietnamese friend, if you can, or someone who can explain some of the regional specialties. If you're alone, just point and shoot. Everything is good. They have Huestylebun bo (cold noodles with beef); a catalog of pho (noodle soup); and all kinds of seafood. Meals here are best as leisurely, many-course affairs, but go just for a snack if you're visiting the Reunification Palace or any sights downtown. Don't miss it! Note: Also check out their other restaurant, just west of the central Notre Dame Cathedral (88 Nguyen Du; tel. 08/827-7896; daily 10am-10pm). While the original Ngon Restaurant focuses on regional food, Nha Hang Com Ngon, which means "Delicious Rice Restaurant," delivers more local Saigon cuisine with a focus on rice. The decor is a unique faux colonial that includes a two-story courtyard area with balcony seating. Also try the buffet-style dining at Nha Hang Tu Chon Ngon (25 Le Thanh Ton, District 1; tel.08/824-3790), which is housed in a colonial-style building with a small courtyard near the busy expat and business area on Le Thanh Ton. Eight dollars gets you a fine lunch, and $10 (5.55) a great dinner. Warning: Service at both of these restaurants is getting better, but this isn't Temple Club. You'll have to flag down staff, and ordering means pointing to the menu, but restaurant service in a real Vietnamese restaurant is never doting or effusive, so think of it this way: You're not being ignored, you're just getting the real thing.

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Bun Ta 136 Nam Ky Khoi Nghia St. Ben Nghe W., District 01 Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), Vietnam Tel: +84-8-822-9913 / 822-9914

This is Bun Ta - 'Everything is Bun' restaurant at 136 Nam Ky Khoi Nghia street in District 1. It's fairly new and I mentioned it pre-opening, but never got around to blogging it up. I went there for the first time four months ago during its opening week. What's unusual for such a swank 'n' chic, minimal 'n' groovy resto is the menu. It's predominantly filled with the signature dishes of the Saigon streets. Dishes I've never seen any chef jazz up any differently from the next stall. The chefs at Bun Ta adhere to that rule. What we've got here is streetfood on posh plates, at clean tables in snazzy surroundings - Nice idea - All the groovy, beautiful people born with a Motorola attached to their right ear are here. Yep - if you're Vietnamese and you eat at Bun Ta - you've made it.

COM NIEU SAI GON

Vietnamese Food
Address Phone Business hours Holidays Other Info. 59 Ho Xuan Huong St., Dist.3, HCMC 08 - 3930 2888 / 08 - 3930 688 9:00 24:00 (7 days a week) No Holiday Related Restaurant A BUU, TAN HAI VAN

Located between ancient villas, "Com Nieu Saigon" lies on Ho Xuan Huong Street, as romantic as its name. Shade from two lines of green trees contributes to the peacefulness and quietness of the scene. Under the mysterious golden light from anciently-designed lanterns stands the elaborately carved wooden house. The 100 year-old Bodhi tree in front of the gate makes "Com Nieu Saigon" more attractive. The place is ancient, elegant and warm with traditional handicraft decoration and a lot of masterpieces of well-known painters. Ingeniously built to each detail, Com Nieu Saigon is an original architecture of an ancient culture of Viet Nam. In the fresh and cool natural environment with flower fragrance flying in the wind and the babbling of the stream, listening to birds singing and melodious music in romantic and peaceful space, you will enjoy complete relaxation. There are more than 300 specially made dishes: from scrab soup of the North, mussel rice soup of the Central Part, to fish cooked in earthenware bowl of the South. Rice cooked in earthenware-pot is quite soft and delicious. You will feel interested and satisfied with talented cooks here.

Maxim's Nam An Vietnamese Restaurant (upmarket; next to the Majestic Hotel) 13-15-17 Dong Khoi District 1 Ho Chi Minh City Vietnam Tel: 829 6676 Open daily from 7am to 12midnight
Maxim's aims to please. Whether you fancy French onion soup, Vietnamesecha gio, or Chinese fried rice, whether your musical tastes run to folk, pop, or classical, chances are Maxim's will satisfy your every whim. Saigon's ultimate tourist extravaganza has weathered war and peace, communist austerity and capitalist competition by following a simple formula: it delivers a buoyant, something-for-everyone, rollicking good time. An occasional visitor may chafe at the noise level'you wouldn't choose this setting for a romantic tete-a-tete'but it's a safe bet, dollars to dong, that no one will ever accuse Maxim's of being dull. The self-described "Fifties-Style Supper Club" plunges its patrons into a heady mix of food, drink and nonstop entertainment that boggles the imagination and sets your senses spinning. More than 200 different dishes, plus variations thereof, emanate from the bustling kitchen, presided over by a triumvirate of chefs who create, respectively, Vietnamese, Chinese and Western fare for their diverse clientele. Then there's the nightly show, a never-ending potpourri of Vietnamese traditional music, modern and classical Western music, folk dances and pop singers, all bathed in a halo of multicolored lights.

This is a little distance from HCMC city centre (7km or 30 min by car; they can arrange for speed boat pickup as well). Check out the website http://binhanvillage.com/restaurant/location.html