This place is always crowded and popular both with the locals and foreigners. From the photos posted, please do not think we ate so much food at one sitting. In fact, we like it so much (I have been a few times to the restaurant in Ho Chin Minh) that we went there for lunch and dinner in a day.
Some photos of the restaurant during lunch.
A photo of one of the food station....
One interesting dish that I tried was fried sparrow.... see the size which is about 2 inches long only. There is no real meat but the taste is quite nice.
During lunch, my Vietnamese guest ordered some prawn fritters, not really Vietnamese but it was really good as the prawns were fresh. The seafood fried rice shown here was also very good.
The following dish was a noodle with pig trotters. This was one dish we did not like. On the right is a "sarsrapilla shake"......in Malaysia it is "ciku" fruit and it's really sweet. The ciku fruits in Vietnam are really large and sweet. Don't miss eating fruits when you are here.
This is another traditional Vietnamese dish called "bun cha"...marinated grilled meat in soup and eaten with vermencelli. Yum.....
During dinner, as it was quite chilly, we had steamboat (hotpot). The soup was tasty and it was good, not too heavy for dinner.
We had a lot of other stuff but I did not take photos in time as we were hungry....
The best part of Ngon is the prices are really reasonable...for 4 to 5 persons, the bill should not exceed USD 35 and that is including drinks and beers.
For lunch another day, we went to a Chinese restaurant near St Joseph Cathedral. it was an upmarket restaurant in Hanoi by the look of it. We were not sure what to eat and ordered some steamed chicken, stir fried vegetables, soup, tofu and fish head with vermencilli. The fish head was good and the taste of the vermencelli was really good. They probably cooked this with pork bacon to have such a nice taste.
On the way back to the hotel, we stopped to get some fruits. My wife wanted to eat "milk fruit". She tasted this in Cambodia a long time ago. I was sceptical as it did not look at all great. But, looks can certainly fool you....the taste was really like sweet milk, no wonder it is called that.
I fell in love with the fruit...it was not cheap...about USD 4 per kg. We had 2 milk fruit and a custard apple (very large) and cost us about USD6...not cheap by Vietnamese standards. But. it was so worth it.....now I know what fruits to have in Vietnam the next time.
Until the next time, cheers.
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