It’s unbelievable how much food is everywhere here in Ho Chi Minh City. Little street stalls selling sticky rice in many different flavours and topping, pressed sugar cane juicers, small restaurants and coffee shops with anything you can imagine from banh mi( Vietnamese submarines) to boiled crabs and snails. And then you have the high end restaurants chattering to a completely different class of society from an array of world wide culinary choices. It’s a foodie’s Mecca.

No, I didn’t try the snails! Lol I actually have memories in my childhood loving snails. Get ready, this is a bit queasy, but we used to use the sharp end of a safety pin to yank the snails out of their shells, dipping them it in a sauce and popping them in our mouths. The thought now makes my stomach quiver.

This trip was very tamed. Our food choices now with google and reading reviews allowed us to scope our destination before hand. However some of the best food experience was just wandering around and crossing paths with a food stall packed with people and a curiously to try what the locals are having.

I did come with a bucket list of foods I absolutely had to eat on this trip. Foods that are available in Edmonton and Sherwood Park, but I wanted to eat it from the birth place. By people making the same dish for decades, food first cooked by the grandmother, now the mom, then eventually the daughter who is cleaning or taking orders.

Here is a photo cache of the food. It’s all been just incredible and utterly overwhelming. Truly a foodies paradise for 1/3 the cost. You can eat like a king here and not break the bank as they say.