Saigon Street Cafe, Takashimaya Mall, Saigon
It is always a bane to good business sense to sell hawker food in a Mall. Takashimaya is a beautiful upmarket shopping complex. From my experience observing Mall's food business, local food do not fare well in it. The entrepreneurs must have a lot of faith in their food and business system to at least for a start think that the business will do well and flourish.
Saigon Street Cafe offers more than decent upmarket hawker food in a nice Mall. I found their ingredients are of quality and their concern for their food in small little ways like food presentation, quite comforting. People with passion will do well with their food and service.
My bowl of Bun Bo Hue (from Central Vietnam) had rich soup deeply infused with spices and a strong scent of lemon grass. The fragrance is agreeable and like by almost every Asian. The beef slices were tasty and preserved pork slices well spiced and you will find peppercorns inside. Last but not least it was laced with a layer of chilli oil a distinctive characteristic of this Central's noodles.
My dessert was sweet. I don't mind the sugar as dessert is meant to be sweet. Another very important part of South East Asian dessert is the use of coconut milk, a rich cream that makes all dessert so delicious and addictive. The bowl of sweetness was further enhanced by the bananas present. That's not the end. It was completed with sago pearls and topped up with roasted sesame seeds.
The meal was not complete without a dose of health. I will try to have this whenever it is available. 'Rau Ma' or pennywort leaves were used to make this detoxifying drink.
Saigon Street Cafe offers more than decent upmarket hawker food in a nice Mall. I found their ingredients are of quality and their concern for their food in small little ways like food presentation, quite comforting. People with passion will do well with their food and service.
My bowl of Bun Bo Hue (from Central Vietnam) had rich soup deeply infused with spices and a strong scent of lemon grass. The fragrance is agreeable and like by almost every Asian. The beef slices were tasty and preserved pork slices well spiced and you will find peppercorns inside. Last but not least it was laced with a layer of chilli oil a distinctive characteristic of this Central's noodles.
My dessert was sweet. I don't mind the sugar as dessert is meant to be sweet. Another very important part of South East Asian dessert is the use of coconut milk, a rich cream that makes all dessert so delicious and addictive. The bowl of sweetness was further enhanced by the bananas present. That's not the end. It was completed with sago pearls and topped up with roasted sesame seeds.
The meal was not complete without a dose of health. I will try to have this whenever it is available. 'Rau Ma' or pennywort leaves were used to make this detoxifying drink.
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