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Hanoi's charcoal-grilled pork noodle dipping dish bun cha has ranked 28th in food website TasteAtlas's "Top 100 Meat Dishes in Asia." A total of seven Vietnamese dishes made the list, ranging from southern braises to central skewers. Travelers spending a few days in Hanoi may find themselves using this ranking to decide "which restaurant to..."

The hu tieu sold for 30,000 dong (approximately 170 yen; 1 yen ≈ 175 dong; same below) per bowl by Mr. Mai Van Liem and his wife from the garden of their Ho Chi Minh City home — a business they have run for 36 years — temporarily closed in August. The reason was not poor business. A customer's TikTok video suddenly brought a surge of visitors, and the queue became unmanageable...

A survey by luggage storage service Radical Storage ranked Hanoi 8th in the world for street food cities. This article maps out a route from morning to night for eating your way through the specifically named dishes — pho, bun cha, banh mi, and egg coffee — with actual shop names and prices in the Old Quarter.

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?

Over 2,000 pieces a day at Ba Chi, a long-established shop in Hue, with 3–4 times the foreign customers. A tasting video by a California-based creator (about 2.9 million views) lit the fuse, turning a roughly 180-yen local dish into over 2,000 yen in North America. From culinary tourism to practical food-crawl notes for Japanese travelers.

A tuna eyeball nearly 10 centimeters across sits whole in a bowl. A video of an Italian man living in Ho Chi Minh City eating this dish—known in Vietnamese as "đèn pha đại dương" (the ocean's headlight)—has been viewed more than 1.5 million times since the start of July. Even among local Vietnamese, "seeing it..."

When most people think of Vietnamese cơm tấm (broken rice), they picture the Saigon staple: a plate topped with a thick grilled pork chop on the bone. Yet the same dish can look so different from city to city that it might as well be an entirely different meal. In Long Xuyên, An Giang Province in the Mekong Delta...

In Hue, the ancient imperial city of central Vietnam, you can work through six local specialties from morning to night for the equivalent of around 1,200 yen. A Hue food tour featured by Vietnam's leading English-language outlet VnExpress on July 3, 2026, totals 190,000–200,000 VND (approximately 1,140–1,200 yen at roughly 60 yen per 10,000 VND)...

Christine Ha, the overseas-Vietnamese MasterChef winner. We unpack her story of recreating from memory a taste her mother never taught her, for travelers who want to savor Vietnamese food more deeply.

Chefs from Vietnam, Thailand, and Malaysia demonstrate seven durian dishes. We look at this warm-up event ahead of the Dak Lak Durian Festival opening in August, along with tips for Japanese travelers to try it on the ground and the festival's dates and venues.