2.12.2013

In Singapore and Writing About Saigon

I've been meaning to blog about a great food tour we went on last month while in Saigon (HCMC) for the weekend.  The only problem is that it apparently took me being in another great food city to finally get around to it (and yes being on holidays helps).

A colleague of mine from work, adverse to eating land meat, found Saigon Street Eats evening tour that featured seafood, seafood, snails, seafood, some insects and the infamous trung vit lon.  We had crab twice (to start and to end the evening), mussels, scallops, clams, crickets, oysters, conch, two different size snails and more.

This tour was appealing because it was very different from our last street food tour in Saigon with XO Tours (also great fun).  Highly recommended!
 

The array at our first stop

Lemongrass clams.

Snails so small you needed to use a safety pin to get them out.

Crickets!  They tasted nutty. Pretty good :)

Also first time trying conch.  The meat was quite toothsome and it reminded me of bamboo / razor clams.

 As for Singapore... we've been binging on dumplings.  It's a thing we're doing.  Highlights in a month or so at my current rate.


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