In the beginning, Ba Chieu market, Binh Thanh district, Ho Chi Minh City was just a squatter market where people gathered to trade. The market faced a pond connected to Nhieu Loc canal. In Chinese characters, “chieu” means pond, so the name Ba Chieu originated from that.
Up to now, Ba Chieu market is not only a market for buying and selling necessities and food, but has become a famous place to explore cuisine.
The rise of social media has helped the delicious restaurants in the market become more widely known. Anyone who comes to Ba Chieu market to eat must definitely try these 3 restaurants, which are famous far and wide:
1. Anh Thuy grilled pork vermicelli
“I don’t know what is so attractive about this grilled pork vermicelli, grilled spring rolls, and shrimp paste that makes everyone who comes back from far away, including overseas Vietnamese, stop by to eat.” That is the comment about Anh Thuy grilled pork vermicelli restaurant in Ba Chieu market, Binh Thanh.
The dish is simple, the noodle bowl has cucumber and chopped raw vegetables, grilled meat, grilled spring rolls, shrimp paste, lots of crushed tofu, a little pickled cucumber, and of course, scallion oil. Grilled meat noodle soup is not authentic without fish sauce. Anh Thuy's fish sauce is special because it has pickled shallots, anyone who loves this pickled dish will love it.
Although they say they sell grilled pork noodles, the shrimp paste is what makes this restaurant famous. The shrimp paste is grilled with sugar cane, thanks to which it is sweet and has a very special taste.
The restaurant also sells spring rolls, spring rolls, and pork skin rolls, priced at 10,000 VND/roll. If you are not full after finishing a bowl of noodles, you can order a few more rolls. However, according to reviews, a full bowl of grilled pork noodles is enough to make you full, "how can you have the energy to eat more!"
Many people say, “It’s expensive these days, a bowl of grilled pork noodles costs 50,000 VND!”, but Anh Thuy restaurant is always crowded. Thinking about it, it makes sense, a “huge” bowl of noodles with many quality toppings, after eating it, you will know it is really worth the money.
Anh Thuy Grilled Pork Vermicelli
Address: Stall 898-899, Ba Chieu market, Binh Thanh district
Open: 7am-5pm
Price: 40,000-50,000/bowl
2. Chicken sticky rice with char siu at Ba Chieu market
On a drizzly day, but no need for rain, just need something to eat in the afternoon, a box of sticky rice is just right.
Ba Chieu Market in Binh Thanh is famous for its chicken and sticky rice stall. At first glance, you will be impressed by the eye-catching “mountain of char siu” and “mountain of crispy fried chicken”.
Order a 30,000 VND sticky rice box to fill your stomach. Hot sticky rice is placed on banana leaves, spread with a little scallion oil, followed by pork floss and sauce, and finally char siu and chicken. If you want char siu or chicken alone, you have to ask in advance because the owner is very quick.
Char siu has a lot of meat, little fat, soft and quite flavorful. The chicken is often considered a bit dry, but this is completely normal for "foodies". Chew the sticky rice soaked in sauce, bite into the meat, and finally have a piece of crunchy and spicy green chili so you don't get bored.
Recently, the "Xoi Ga Xa Xiu" restaurant has been filled with drama. Before the "taste of the food is no longer the same" issue has passed, there is the "problem with the seller's attitude". However, the restaurant is still as popular as ever, the pots of "Xoi Ga Xa Xiu" and the trays of crispy fried chicken are still piled high like mountains, people line up to buy, and the sellers never stop selling.
Since you've come to Ba Chieu market to explore the cuisine, why not try it once?
Chicken sticky rice with char siu at Ba Chieu market
Address: 318 Bui Huu Nghia, enter from the left gate of Ba Chieu market 100m
Price: 25,000-30,000/portion
Sticky rice is sold from 2pm until late at night, until sold out.
3. Miss My's Tea
Open from 8am to 4pm, Ms. My's sweet soup stall has become an indispensable childhood sweet for many people.
Photo: @thuckhach.channel
It is not an exaggeration to say that Ms. My’s sweet soup stall is a “sweet soup supermarket”. The tiny stall sells all kinds of sweet soups and cakes, such as sweet coconut rice cakes with tapioca flour, sponge cakes, flan cakes, mixed sweet soups, steamed banana sweet soups, mung bean sweet soups, black bean sweet soups, and banh lot sweet soups…
But the most popular tea is ginseng. There is nothing better than a cool glass of ginseng to quench your thirst on a hot day. Her customers are not only from other places, but also many small traders in the market. After finishing lunch, why not treat yourself to a cool glass of tea to clear your throat and wake up!
Ms. My, owner of a famous 47-year-old sweet soup stall in Ba Chieu market. Photo: @thuckhach.channel
It is said that this famous sweet soup stall in Ba Chieu market has existed for nearly 47 years, from mother to daughter (Ms. My). When asked if her children will take over this sweet soup stall in the future, Ms. My smiled and said: "I don't have any children to take over."
I don't know if she's joking or not, but if Ms. My's sweet soup stall disappears, Ba Chieu market will probably lack something sweet and familiar.
Miss My's Tea
Address: About 100m from the right gate of Ba Chieu market
Price: 16,000-20,000/portion
Open: From 8am to 3pm, may close later or earlier
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