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Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
6 dishes to eat in Ho Chi Minh City, what is in them, and where they belong.
Broken rice with grilled pork chop, shredded pork skin and a steamed egg cake. The Saigon plate.
Sweeter and more heavily filled than in the north, with pickled daikon and carrot.
A southern noodle soup of Cambodian-Chinese descent, available dry or in broth.
A large turmeric-yellow crepe of rice flour and coconut milk, filled with pork and prawn, torn up and wrapped in lettuce and herbs.
Fresh rice-paper rolls with prawn, pork, herbs and vermicelli, dipped in peanut or fish sauce. Not fried.
A whole family of sweet dessert soups with beans, jelly, fruit and coconut milk, served hot or over ice.