We took a cab to one of the well-known restaurants in Saigon that serves Bánh Cuốn, which is Bánh Cuốn Hải Nam. It was almost 4.00pm when we reached the shop and there were not much customers.
Bánh Cuốn, or Vietnamese noodle rolls, are yet another delicious food to try in Vietnam. Although it is a northern Vietnamese dish, it’s widely available throughout the south as well, and you’ll find it frequently throughout Saigon.
Bánh Cuốn literally translates to rolled cakes, but I like to call them noodle roll-ups. It is known as Chu Cheong Fan in Singapore, Malaysia and Hong Kong.
The menu at Bánh Cuốn Hai Nam included quite a few different Vietnamese dishes, all sorts of noodle and roll dishes, but I think by far the main thing they sell, and what they have really made a name for is Bánh Cuốn .
One of the convenient things about the restaurant is that the menu is printed in Vietnamese but includes English descriptions to make it easier to order.
The first thing I ordered was their normal plate of Bánh Cuốn, which I think anyone who walks in the door of the restaurant automatically orders.
The plate included two pretty decent sized noodle rolls, filled with a generous supply of the minced meat filling, then topped with a handful of shredded lettuce and blanched bean sprouts, and finally a sprinkle of fragrant crispy shallots.
Finally, Bánh Cuốn would not be complete without sauce. The sauce, known as Nước Chấm, is a sweet type of Vietnamese fish sauce. It was salty, and sweet, and you don’t want to miss adding some fresh crushed chilies to your sauce as well. Dipping bites of Bánh Cuốn into the sweet fish sauce and chilies was marvellous.
I noticed all the ingredients such as the batter, the meat filling with mushrooms and the shredded lettuces and the crispy shallots too at the kitchen near to the entrance of the restaurant.
After we headed to our next stop of destination - Bún Bò Hue Chú Há.
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