HO CHI MINH CITY – Grilled egg bowl is a popular Central dish in Saigon, sold in markets or snack shops, with prices from 7,000 VND/cup.
Ho Thi Ky Food Street
The cup of the grilled egg is a dish that combines quail eggs, green onions, and butter, adding a variety of toppings to the bowl and then grilled directly on a hot coal stove. At the snack paradise of Ho Thi Ky market, District 10, diners can enjoy a cup of grilled eggs with flavors of oysters, shrimp, squid, cheese, mussels, sausage, minced meat for 12,000 VND/cup. Mixing 2 flavors will cost 20,000 VND and the full topping is 25,000 VND.
The dish is grilled until it is sold there, so it is always kept hot, each cup has scallions, fried onions, greasy mayonnaise, and mildly spicy chili sauce. The shop serves more laksa leaves and tamarind fish sauce. Ho Thi Ky Food Street is currently operating from 3pm to 9pm, the busiest from 5pm onwards, customers can park a car at the top of the street for 10,000 VND/car and then walk to the market.
Pong Quan
This is a Phan Rang standard snack address in Saigon, with many branches in District 3, Binh Thanh District, Thu Duc City. The shops all serve the main dish is a cup of grilled eggs with about 13 flavors, priced from 7,000 to 20,000 VND/cup. Diners commented that the topping served with grilled eggs is quite fresh like shrimp, milk oysters and strangely added crabs, served with fish sauce mixture to the mouth.
In addition to a cup of grilled eggs, guests can order other snacks such as fish rolls, grilled spring rolls, grilled rice paper, fried corn, grilled skewers… all of which are available. The suggested address for diners is Pong Quan, 168/73 Nguyen Gia Tri, Ward 25, Binh Thanh, open for sale from 9am to 9pm daily.
Nhi Nhi Quan
This is also a snacking address specializing in Phan Rang dishes such as Pong Quan, all kinds of grilled rice paper with fish sauce, grilled spring rolls with salt and pepper, fried corn with butter, rolls, vermicelli with fish sauce, roasted chrysanthemums with tamarind…
The cup of grilled egg here does not have too many flavors, revolves around styles such as minced meat sauce, toasted sauce, cheese sauce and original with prices from 7,000 to 15,000 VND/cup. However, the dish is commented to have a greasy taste thanks to the addition of more cheese, green onions, fried onions and sweet and sour fish sauce. The shop is at 164, 20th street, ward 5, Go Vap district.
