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At 3 Đặng Thị Nhu (3 Dang Thi Nhu Street), a two-minute walk from Ben Thanh Station in District 1, Saigon, a group exhibition by six artists titled "fiction, fraction (tích, tách, mảnh mơ)" is currently on display. The venue is Rare Sea, an independent art collective established in early 2026. The exhibition runs from August 8...

Kem Vi Bon (Kem Vi Bổn), an ice pop shop in Tan Dinh, Ho Chi Minh City, was featured by English-language outlet Saigoneer on September 22, 2026. Founded in 1958 (Saigoneer's wording is "nearly 70 years"). Prices are 4,000 VND per stick for kumquat (tắc) flavor, and 7,000 VND for other flavors…

In a 2019 Q&Me survey, 75% of Vietnamese beer drinkers said they prefer their beer with ice. This piece unpacks the local logic behind it, warming heat, keeping carbonation, and pacing a session, from a traveler's and resident's point of view.

Lines form in a Manhattan backyard for banh mi chao at $28 a plate (around ¥4,300). A breakfast that costs 30,000–60,000 dong in a Saigon home sells for more than ten times that price abroad. What is iron-plate banh mi, what does the price gap say about immigrant entrepreneurship and the premiumization of Vietnamese food overseas, and how do you enjoy it back in Vietnam?

Bột chiên is a down-to-earth street dish: white rice-flour cakes fried on a griddle, bound with egg, and topped with shredded green papaya and a sweet-savory sauce—all made on a single street-stall griddle. A shop in District 3, Ho Chi Minh City, that had been frying that one dish for 17 years quietly closed at the end of July 2026. ...

Ezekiel Tan, chef of a popular Singapore restaurant themed on medicinal cuisine, held a one-night-only wellness dinner at Unu, a restaurant inside a Saigon art hotel. We unpack this experience where two cities' food cultures meet from a Japanese traveler's perspective.

Customers are flocking to the eateries featured in Thanh Nien's series "In Search of Hometown Eateries." Sold out by 9:30 a.m., with some closing early. We explain a practical guide to a regional food crawl in Ho Chi Minh City, with shop names, addresses, prices, and opening hours.

Ho Chi Minh City’s sixth double-decker sightseeing bus, “DL06,” opens on July 4. We’ve laid out the roughly 27-km, 110-minute route, operating hours and frequency, the boarding point, and how it differs from the existing five routes, for Japanese travelers.

Thao Dien in Ho Chi Minh City is a quiet area on the east side of the Saigon River where independently run cafés, boutiques, and galleries gather. We introduce "another Saigon," popular with foreign residents.

Ho Thi Ky market in District 10, Saigon, has two faces: a flower wholesale market that comes alive at midnight, and a food street that bustles in the evening. We introduce how to enjoy this locally rooted market whose expression changes by the hour.