We walked quite for a while after our late lunch at Cơm Gà Xối Mỡ Su Su. The shop is located at the main road, and there were many cars passing by. It is indeed a busy road and kind of difficult to get a taxi. As all of us were tired as we have walked since the morning.
Our family walked for almost 30 to 45 minutes under the hot and shinning sun, and we still unable to get a taxi. After all, Alvin told us to gather and asked us to pray as a family to Heavenly Father, so that we were able to get a taxi back to our hotel. And we did our prayer.
It was a miracle that we were able to get a taxi just next 5 minutes, and all of us were so happy and felt the blessings from the Lord. We were so stunned when we entered into the taxi, and our hearts were full. We experienced the power of prayer as a family! We can feel Father’s love to our family!
We were so happy when we arrived in our hotel, we took a good bath after a fruitful and tiring morning walk exploring Cholon areas and FITO Museum. All of us were totally flat and take a good sweet nap in the afternoon.
We decided to come out from the hotel for our street food hunting again around 6.00pm, but this time we were heading to the Asiana Food Town which is situated within the Sense Market Shopping Center, located underneath the famous 23/9 Park just across the Pham Ngu Lau street.
We quite delighted with the location as it is in the heart of the southern metropolis and within walking distance of popular tourist destinations such as Ben Thanh Market and the Bui Vien Street backpackers area.
The entry road to the Sense Market is lush with green vegetation bordering it. Sense Market Shopping Center has a unique and modern architecture, nestled beneath the bustling city centre.
Surprisingly Asiana Food Town is spacious and housed a lot of food stalls offering distinctive cuisine from various Asia countries, such as Vietnam, Japan, Thailand, Laos, Singapore, India, Korea and even Malaysia.
Each stall is decorated in a different theme, all of which harmonize in an atmosphere that embodies eastern culture and cuisine, providing diners with traditional taste and high-quality service.
Alvin ordered pizzas for both kids at The Pizza Company. We got the promotions with buy one and get one free, with beef pepperoni and Hawaiian chicken flavour. Annabelle was smiling happily after having only eating local street food for days, when she saw her favourite food here!
While Alvin and I were having the typical Vietnamese noodles again. Initially I ordered a bowl of Bún Riêu and Alvin ordered a bowl of Canh Bún.
Bún Riêu basically is a crab soup based and with tomatoes ingredients inside the soup, it is to make the soup more rich with seafood with sourly taste. Along with the wonderfully flavorful broth in a bowl of Bún Riêu, the noodles are often similar in shape and size to spaghetti noodles, except soft rice noodles.
Topping the noodles are pieces of golden fried tofu, sometimes meatballs, hearty chunks of pork, squares of congealed pig’s blood, and finally a slab of rich crab paste.
Alvin was having the Canh Bún. It really looked the same as mine. Both of us thought it was almost the same, but after that only that I got to know there are difference between these two.
At first glimpse of a pot of Canh Bún, many people may mistaken it with Bún Riêu (Crab Noodle Soup). Similar to Bún Riêu, they both originated from Northern Vietnam but this dish is definitely different in taste and texture.
Canh Bún's broth and Riêu (crab mixtured) are much lighter. Canh Bún's riêu is soft and fluffy while Bún Riêu's riêu is sturdy. In addition, it doesn't have tomatoes; the noodles are thicker and they have the reddish color once cooked in the broth and eaten with boiled water spinach.
After looking into Alvin’s bowl, I noticed that there was brown noodles in it. I looked at the menu signage and took a closer look what is in the bowl. It seems like there was mistakes in our orders.
In actual fact, I was having the Bún Riêu which I had was with the clear soup instead of sturdy. So, I do not know I was having the Bún Riêu or Canh Bún because we have a plate of blanched water spinach or ‘kang kung’ 
Well now it seems to me that Alvin was having the Bánh Da Cua, that have the pink brown of crab, brown noodles, green color of vegetable, green onion, lemon; fresh red colour of chili and yellow colour of dry onion.
We just accepted whatever in our bowl, and had our dinner. Both of us just put the blanched ‘kang kung’ into our bowl of soup and ate together with the noodles.
After our dinner, we walked about around the 23/9 Park. There were a lot of people. It is actually a huge social hangout area for young people, further more there was Gyeongju International Cultural Festival 2017 which 23/9 Park was one of the main venue.
23/9 Park was hosting the opening and closing ceremonies, fashion shows, and artistic performances. Apart from that, 23-9 Park was be home to an exhibition on South Korea’s culture during the Silla period, the old capital Gyeongju, and another exhibit on distinctive Confucianism.
Our family was just in time for this international cultural festival. We noticed that there were some street food were being sold at the road side. The vendor was very friendly to all the passed-by tourists, sitting on a small stool with a small BBQ charcoal pit in front of him, and the prepared ingredients at the side.
It looks like a snack to us. It is a park snack in Saigon which most of the locals love. It called Banh Trang Nuong, which translates into ‘grilled rice paper’, sometimes referred to as a Vietnamese pizza.
It starts off as a circular sheet of dry rice paper slathered with butter and then set a top the small charcoal grill. The vendor sprinkles the sheet with minced pork, shredded pork floss, dried baby shrimp, and chopped spring onions.
The finishing touch is some quail egg yolk to bind all the ingredients together and a squirt of chili sauce. When it’s done grilling, Vietnamese pizza has a crunchy bite similar to the consistency of a taco shell. It’s smoky and crunchy, and makes a good Vietnamese leisure snack.
On our way back to the hotel, we passed-by a stall selling Banh Mi. Alvin just bought one back to hotel, and we were having a group selfie at the side of the stall.
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