HCMC – The crab cake shop in District 5 is sold in a large pot for 2-3 people, while the restaurant in District 10 makes fibers from potato flour with a strange taste.
Banh canh is a popular hot water dish in Ho Chi Minh City no less than the types of vermicelli, pho, and noodles. Bread soup is usually made from whole rice flour or filtered rice flour, processed with many ingredients such as pork, chicken, seafood. Here are some suggestions for diners to enjoy this dish.
Crab soup “giant”, district 5
Ba Ba restaurant in Alley 84 Nguyen Bieu (District 5) sells crab cakes in a large pot instead of serving each bowl as a mass. Therefore, diners who come to the restaurant often go from two or more people to use up one serving.
In addition to its giant size, the soup pot also attracts diners by the bright red-orange color of the broth cooked from crab meat, pork bones, and dried shrimp. In it, the cashew oil gives color and the flour is added to create a viscosity. The ingredients in the dish include shrimp, fish cakes, quail eggs, blood, pig skin, each of which consists of 2-3 pieces. A pot of cake soup costs 92,000 VND. The restaurant is open 9am – 8pm, suitable for diners with brunch, lunch and dinner.
Phu Yen chives soup, district 10
As a specialty of Phu Yen, the bowl of soup cake covered with chives at a restaurant on Cao Thang Street (District 10) makes many diners hesitate at first glance for fear of the pungent smell. However, chives have the effect of enhancing the broth taste and reducing the fishy smell. The Central people often simmer the broth and process the ingredients from sea fish, giving it a sweet taste different from the broth from pork bones. The ingredients are quite monotonous, including cakes with fish balls, mackerel pieces, dipped with spicy and sour sauce, but the dish is suitable for diners who want to change the taste to prevent it.
Each bowl of banh canh has two prices: 40,000 VND, and 50,000 VND more mackerel. In addition, the shop also sells some Phu Yen specialties such as chicken rice, chicken leaf hotpot, tuna salad … The restaurant serves guests from 7:00 to 21:30.
Banh canh “two bowls”, district 1
Every afternoon, the restaurant on Pho Duc Chinh Street (District 1) is crowded with customers. The signboard shop sells squid porridge as the main dish, but attracts many customers by banh canh. The other point of the restaurant is that the meat is not put into the bowl of bread, and is served with a bowl of salt and pepper to dipping. Eat the same soup here with chicken thighs, chicken wings and pork ribs or lean. The owner of the shop uses the same porridge recipe to process the soup broth, including shredded dried squid, simmered with pork bones and dried shrimp to sweeten the water.
The restaurant is open from 7am to 9pm. In addition to porridge and cake soup, there are pasta, wonton wonton, side dishes such as boiled eggs, boiled chicken feet.
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