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A local outlet spotlights Phở Chay Như, a vegetarian pho spot in District 3, Ho Chi Minh City. We break down this roughly 40-year-old meat-free eatery from a practical angle—Vietnam's vegetarian (chay) food culture, the difference between vegetarian and halal, and the roughly 600-yen-a-head access and how to order.

Buying a Marou chocolate bar at the airport on the way home from Vietnam, or eating at Pizza 4P's in Ho Chi Minh City — for travelers who do those things, July 2026 became a somewhat special month. Brands that seemed available only in Vietnam began appearing that same summer at locations in New York and at Singapore's Changi Airport in quick succession...

Tan Son Nhat International Airport, Ho Chi Minh City's air gateway, is set to be connected to the city center by metro. The Tan Son Nhat–Phu Huu section of Metro Line 6, announced by the city on July 27, runs approximately 23 km, with 19 km underground, linking all three terminals—T1, T2, and T3—via underground stations. Construction is to begin within the year, with completion targeted for 2030...

Vietnam's wooden clogs, guốc mộc, have long carried the image of old footwear worn by mothers and grandmothers. That craft is now drawing younger generations and travelers to markets in Ho Chi Minh City, where artisans carve a custom pair right in front of the customer. Some 1,000 kilometers away...

From December 1, 2026, southern Vietnam will have two international gateways. Long Thanh International Airport, under construction approximately 40 km east of Ho Chi Minh City, will begin commercial operations on that date, and international flights will gradually shift away from Tan Son Nhat International Airport (airport code SGN), which has handled them alone until now...

A few kilometers northwest of central Ho Chi Minh City, tucked into a lane in the Bảy Hiền area of Tân Bình District, is a small market called Chợ Bà Hoa. Step inside and the intonation of the voices around you and the sweets on display at the stalls are unmistakably not from southern Saigon. People from Quảng Ngãi, Quảng...

Teachers, office workers, engineers, students, and factory hands—young people from all walks of life are gathering at a bar in Ho Chi Minh City to sing southern Vietnamese classical music that is more than a century old. The story was reported by local media outlet Saigoneer. Their group is called Đờn Ca Đó Đây (meaning "music here and there")...

SJourney, Vietnam's luxury sleeper train linking Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City over eight days, will introduce its top-tier "Imperial Suite" in October 2026. Occupying an entire carriage of the 13-car train, the 51 m² private suite is reserved exclusively for one party at a time, priced at 64,000 USD per person...

Heading out from central Ho Chi Minh City past the Saigon Zoo and Botanical Gardens, you reach a bridge over the Thinh Quang canal. Tucked quietly at the foot of that bridge is a coffee shop with no sign and no name. The frontage is less than 2 meters wide, with just three or four tables. Even so, customers start arriving before dawn, from 5 a.m....

In a downtown Ho Chi Minh City neighborhood, a café that did nothing more than wrap its coffee cups in yellow "talisman"-style paper drew long queues and was forced into a temporary closure just over a month after opening. The shop is called Đắc Phúc (meaning "Abundant Fortune"). Local newspaper Dân Trí reported on July 2, 2026...