Banh Canh Cua

This restaurant named banh canh cua is a local small shop similar to a street stall. It serves local snacks. Although the environment is average and the service is average due to good business, the food tastes good.

This super internet-famous restaurant is very famous in Saigon. The signature dish is crab seafood rice. You will know how delicious it is after taking a sip of the soup. The soup is slightly thick and has a seafood flavor. A large piece of meat is so tender that it falls off the bone when you pick it up. There are also shrimps, quail eggs, pig blood tofu, and fried cakes, which are all very delicious. A bowl is only 55,000 VND.

The rice noodles in Banh canh are very similar to Japanese udon noodles, made from rice and tapioca starch, but are thicker and chewier than udon noodles. This snack is very suitable for crab lovers. The thick broth is very rich in crab flavor, and the toppings include different versions such as crab meat, pork, and pig blood.

Banh Canh Cua, a popular stall in Ho Chi Minh City! Crab meat and seafood rice noodles! This is the only kind of food sold in the whole place, so when I go there I just need to gesture "1 bowl", and that's it. Even though I'm an idiot in Vietnamese, I won't starve to death. This restaurant is not in the city center, but I interviewed the diners at the same table and found that people who live in the city center would also come here specifically to eat. The ingredients are very sufficient and it also comes with a plate of fried dough sticks. The soup is full of fragrant seafood flavor, and the rice noodles are thicker than chopsticks and super elastic. It is added with crab claw meat, shrimp, chicken breast, chicken blood and quail eggs. It is a great combination. The price is absolutely cheap, only 38,000 Vietnamese dong, which is equivalent to about 11 yuan. If you come to Ho Chi Minh City, I highly recommend you to try it. (The boss sitting at the door collecting money is a living sign! The store opens at 2pm. When I came in the morning, it was not open yet. I thought it was a store waiting to be renovated. There was not even a sign.)

The Vietnamese Pho here is very good and the price/performance ratio is very high.