food, food, food

Over the course of the trip, we have had the chance to eat many different types of Vietnamese cuisine. Most of the time we found that the food tastes very weird or is simply not suited to our Singaporean tastebuds. Vietnamese food tastes rather bland. Perhaps Vietnamese people like to adopt healthy lifestyles and stay away from oily and salty food that we are used to.

healthy food

One thing that we have grown to love is Pho (pronounced Fur? with the question mark), a type of noodles in soup with either chicken or beef. Locals usually have it for breakfast, but we eat it at all times of the day depending on availability. We could often be found across the street at the Pho shop in the early hours of the day during our stay at HCMC.

pho, our all-time favourite

There were also some strange food that are hard to come across in Singapore, such as cobra juice (pronounced cobrrra juize), fried pigeons and duck embryo. Some of us were squeamish when we saw these food.


fried pigeon? YUM!

I realized that there are very few fast food restaurants in Vietnam. From what I saw, there was only KFC and Lotteria, a Japanese fast food chain, which was quite tasty too, I must say. Perhaps a viable business opportunity could be found in setting up a fast food franchise in Vietnam? However, that would depend on the Vietnamese and if they have interest in such unhealthy food over their own healthy local dishes.

lotteria was nice and cheap