On our very first night in Vietnam, our tour guide took us on an orientation walk of Ho Chi Minh City (formerly known as Saigon) to finish up at a nice restaurant. We ate quite early – the Vietnamese do – which was good as we were all a bit jet-lagged. The restaurant was on Pasteur Street in District 1, just a short walk from the Reunification Palace. I am told that Ngon is Vietnamese for ‘delicious’. The restaurant seemed quite busy but our guide had booked a table for us upstairs. The downstairs seemed quite open and there were lots of tables and chairs outside, which I recall thinking was a ...
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