A fulfilling day with the kiddos at Sentosa

Day 7: We are eating machine!

Our last full day in Saigon and the plan was to devour as much Vietnamese food as we can. 

Our first meal was at Den Long restaurant, famous for serving home cooked Vietnamese cuisine. Was surprised that the staff speaks very fluent English, and sound just like native speakers. 

This soft shell crab is da bomb!

Ready to fill our tummies!

My obsession with lanterns is real.

Den long restaurant was decorated with many colourful 灯笼 

5 stars service and food!

You guys ought to drop by for a meal if you're nearby. No RAGRATS loading calories here.

Straight after Den Long, we cabbed to Pho2000 and continued our foodie trail!

Very hardcore, I know. Please do not attempt, 叔叔是有练过的哦. 

This pho restaurant was made famous after Bill Clinton ate here. [Not sure if you could spot him in the photo frame behind my head] 

We couldn't locate the place at first, we only saw Coffee Bean when the GPS indicated we were already at Pho2000. Turn out we need walk into Coffee bean and use the stairs to get to the 2nd level. 

My big bowl of pho!

Our tummies almost explode sia. 

We walked to Ben Thanh market to explore abit. It's a big market with many narrow aisles and rows of shops selling all sorts of stuff and fake branded. Some vendors suddenly grabbed my arm when I walked pass them, and tried to shove me into their shops! Had to quickly leave as I was so terrified by their aggressiveness!

Walked to Saigon Centre to have afternoon tea.

We chose this beautiful cafe that looks like a bird cage, RuNam Boutique at level 1.

Ordered a pot of Lotus Tea.

Love the golden drip coffee filter!

Mini matcha eclaire 

Cabbed back to hotel for a shower.

We planned to visit a rooftop bar on our last day in Saigon. 

After much googling, we chose to chill at the rooftop bar at Grand Hotel Saigon.

The Saigon river 

When dusk falls

The sky turned to a light, dusky purple

Just chilling and planning what to do later

Thank you for being crazy with me, agreeing to go anywhere my itinerary takes us ;) and taking tons of beautiful photos of me! 

At Highlands Coffee with my drink

With tummies filled to brim and no plans to have dinner anytime soon, we bought Gold Class tickets to Captain Marvel!

This sums up our 7 days in Saigon, personally I love this city so much. The people here are friendly, IMO it's safe, food is insanely good and cheap, loads of nice coffee shops and grab car is easily available ;) Just need to gather enough courage to take your first step out to cross their crazy roads. 

Gonna catch the early flight home tomorrow, missing my children so badly. So thankful to have in-laws taking such good care of them. Tam biet!

Day 6: Just eating and eating in Saigon

Was so tired the day before that we slept in till it's almost lunch time! Took a cab to Pizza 4P's [Le Thanh Ton outlet] and had to ask for directions a few times because the restaurant was hidden right at the end of an alley. 

This restaurant has high ratings in Tripadvisor and when we got there, we managed to secure the last table for two without reservations. However we were given 1.5hr time limit (which is more than enough for us) as their place was fully booked. Everyone who came after us had to queue at their holding area. 

Ambience was cosy, the waitresses were very welcoming and spoke English.

Their half-half pizza.

We had a hard choosing because they have so many kinds of pizza toppings. Decided to play safe and ordered mayo shrimp and salmon miso. 

Smoked burrata bolognese 

This seemed to be popular dish because every table had one. 

The burettta cheese melted when mixed into the pasta, and had a light creamy smell that complements well with the bolognese.

I tell you, this place is crowded for a reason. 

At first we were worried we couldn't finish this huge pizza but it was really so nice that we both just ate quietly till it's all gone.

Had to drop by L'usine [Le Thanh Ton outlet] for dessert since it's just around the corner. 

Tummy was exploding but still went ahead with Lava Chocolate cake and Apple tart. 

开动啦!

Apple tart.

Couldn't finish it, too sweet already!

But the caramelized ginger was very addictive.

Aiyo if only the ice cream can be of bigger scoop. It's so kelian 的 small.

Watched a Gold Class movie as we were too lazy to be walking around under the hot sun, and too full to eat anything!

Just nice it's dinner time when the movie ended. Walked to Secret Garden restaurant, which was also highly recommended online by travellers. 

I have this thing for lanterns. 

Already bustling with diners when we got there at 6.10pm 

Mango salad

Clam seafood soup

Grilled beef 

To be eaten together with vegetable, carrot stick, dried mango and pineapple.

It also came with a wasabi dipping sauce.

Baby pork ribs with Secret garden sauce

Vietnam, when the beer is the same price as soft drinks. 

Not the cheapest restaurant around but definitely worth the mooleh.

We just randomly chose 4 dishes and all turned out to be above our expectations.

真的是太太太好吃了!!!

Went back to our hotel for a shower and then out again for a drink at the nearby coffee place, Trung Nguyen Coffee. 

My Iced Kamquat and his Americano.

We had come to a conclusion that it's impossible to find bad coffee in Vietnam.