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Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Saigontourist has Women’s Day buffets

For Vietnam Women’s Day on October 20, hotels under Saigontourist in HCMC will host buffet parties, promising women fine food for an unforgettable day.

The four-star Grand Hotel Saigon’s Chez-Nous Restaurant will hold a “Day of Women” buffet from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. The buffet will include dishes made of snail and clam with different salads, spring rolls and sweet soups. Tickets are priced at VND149,000 per adult and VND99,000 per child, inclusive of drinks. Women will receive a 20% discount.

The four-star Oscar Saigon Hotel’s Starlight Restaurant will hold a buffet lunch from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. with selected dishes in sections with seven appetizers, eight salads, five fried and barbecued dishes and a vast array of fruit, sweet soups and ice-creams. A range of hot pots made of seafood, pork or beef will be also available. Drinks are free.

The Cyclo Restaurant at the five-star Majestic Hotel Saigon will bring Vietnam’s best dishes to gourmets. Tickets are priced at VND25,000 per a dish or VND228,000 for the selection inclusive of tea or coffee. Diners can enjoy food from the nation’s three regions such as salads mixed with shrimps and lotus buds, or with beef, banana flowers and chicken, grilled chicken with lemon leaves, loc fish steamed in earthen pot, sour soup made in Mekong Delta style with fish, pineapple, tomato, bean sprout or thac lac fish steamed with bitter melon and many kinds of seafood, fruits and drinks. Meals are accompanied with ethnic music performances.

The Majestic Hotel Saigon is at 1 Dong Khoi Street, tel: 3829 5517, email: banquet@majesticsaigon.com.vn.

The Grand Hotel Saigon is located at 8 Dong Khoi Street, HCMC’s District 1, tel: 3829 4046, email: banquet@grandhotel.vn.

The Oscar Saigon Hotel is at 68A Nguyen Hue Boulevard, HCMC’s District 1, tel: 3829 2959, email: oscarsaigonhotel@oscar-saigonhotel.com.

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Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Sweet soup - refreshments for summer

Two girls take their pumpkin and Thai sweet soups at shop 280 on Nguyen Tri Phuong Street, HCMC’s District 5- Photo: Huy Nguyen
Sweet soups are really taking off in Saigon with many new shops opening especially along Nguyen Tri Phuong Street in HCMC’s District 5.

Among the row of sweet soup shops on that street, shop No. 280 is always busy. The shop offers more than 20 kinds, of which the Thai sweet soup is the most popular. The soup entices with the sweetness of longan, coconut and fragrance of durian.

Another striking soup is the milk cocktail that mixes tropical fruits like jack fruit, longan, durian and water coconut. Coconut jelly is also a favorite option for many young diners. The soup is made of fresh coconut water, sugar and seaweed in a coconut.

Vegetarians can eat tofu sweet soup made of milk, soy bean and seaweed mixed with fruit flavor, syrup and cocoa.

But the must-try dish is pumpkin sweet soup. The main ingredient is steamed pumpkin which is stuffed with coconut juice, milk and eggs.

The shop also prepares many traditional Vietnamese sweet soups made of red bean, green bean, white bean or thung and ba ba sweet soup.

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