Last Supper

After the zoo photo-shoot, I moved back towards Notre Dame for some coffee and cake and it starts to piss with rain (almost exactly the same time as yesterday in fact) so I take shelter in a coffee shop for a while and let the rain storm pass by, before heading back to the hotel via this secluded bar for a beer.

Tonight I set out to find the Quan An Ngon restaurant, which has been recommended both in the guide book, and in almost every Google search of “nice+restaurants+in+ho+chi+minh+city” but the map I have got isn’t accurate (unless the restaurant is in fact a derelict building, which I somewhat doubt from looking at the Google images and reviews from a few days ago), so I wander round a few blocks to see if I can spot it. 

Eventually I do (it was 2 streets away) and I am glad I did: the place was great – all the food is cooked on the ground floor, a bit like a food court, and then served in really nice surroundings upstairs. I had Vietnamese spring rolls, noodle soup and 2 beers for 75000VND – about £2.40! Amazing.

The food here was so delicious, I wanted more… So I did – well, not in this restaurant, I at least moved to another noodle bar on the way back into town… Well, it was cheap and healthy. I waddled back to the hotel later to pack my stuff, taking in the final scenes and atmosphere of Ho Chi Minh City, as I would be flying relatively early in the morning back to KL.


Ho Chi Minh in 10 words? 


Hot, Vibrant, Noisy, Hectic, Friendly, Food, War-scarred, (no) McDonalds, Beep, Wet