Saigon On My Mind

What I loved about Saigon is the food. Food abounds everywhere. A few steps from our hotel is an eskinita which revealed this:

  The lady on the left was selling noodles and coffee while at the end was a bakery which was having a very busy business turning out baguettes.

  Warm, soft, crispy on the outside, golden baguettes, fresh from the oven. Mmmmmm. And who can forget the banh mi? We found a cart selling banh mi a few more meters ahead.

Biting into the sandwich, one is startled by the crispy freshness of the vegetables added into it and the smooth, non-obstrusive taste of the meat. The sauce marries the ingredients well and the bread is the perfect foil for everything in it. Curse this travel package that provided us with all our meals.  Had we been left to forage for ourselves, I would be having this every day. Cheap too, at 8,000 dong (about 25 pesos). As it is, I only discovered this on our last night, as a late merienda.

The thing that really got me hooked and left me pining for it is the coffee.