We had a really good rest and sleep last night as today we are leaving Saigon. We woke up around 8.00am, and opted to have our breakfast out from the hotel. We walked into alley again, as Alvin and I were thinking of wanting to have a delicious Bún Thịt Nướng before we fly back to Malaysia.
The food stall which we tried the other day was not open, and we ended up with another food stall and seems selling quite the same thing. We ordered Bún Chả Giò.The difference between Bún Thịt Nướng, and Bún Chả Giò, is that the latter version includes a deep fried spring roll on top but the earlier includes grilled pork.
Chả Giò is minced pork, herbs, and spices rolled up in rice paper then deep fried. Recently, cooks have been trading in their rice paper for a wheat based wrapper similar to egg rolls. They are easier to fry and stay crispy longer. The traditional Vietnamese way uses rice paper, which gets soggy after a while, but has a consistency that is much different than the egg roll type wrappers.
In this dish, the Chả Giò is cut up and placed over vermicelli rice noodles, herbs, pickled daikon and carrot, and some greens. It is similar to Bún Thịt Nướng. Not only does the Chả Giò add an extra flavour to the already delicious dish, but it also gives some crunchy texture to the soft noodles and other ingredients.
They both come with nuoc cham, a sweetened fish sauce that can be used as a dip or spooned into the bowl. This sauce shouldn't be forgotten. Its sweet and sourness balances out the flavours. Our bowl includes also with Chả Lụa and pieces of Banh Mi in it.
Chả Lụa is the most popular kind of chả. Lụa means silk in Vietnamese. It is made with very lean cuts of pork, potato or tapioca starch, and usually contains some garlic and fish sauce. The meat is tightly sealed in a banana leaf and steamed.
All of us had a really hearty breakfast and yummy too!
We checked out the hotel around 11.30am and headed to the Tan Son Nhat International Airport. We arrived around 12.45pm. We just hanging around in the airport and waited for our flight to depart.
It was quite an interesting and yummy experiences we had in Saigon! Good Bye, Saigon! And, hope to come back to visit again soon!
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