Five Vietnam
restaurants among 101 best in Asia
The US-based food
website Daily Meal continues its culinary tour of the world with its
first-ever roster of the 101 Best Restaurants in
Ho Chi Minh City’s Lemongrass and Nha
hang Ngon were ranked 21st and 28th respectively while Da Nang’s La Maison
1888 placed 58th, Ho Chi Minh City’s Hoi An and Mandarine, 71th and 95th in
the list which includes restaurants in Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia,
Japan, Singapore, the Republic of Korea, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand,
Vietnam, Hong Kong and Macau.
While its simple wicker furniture and
narrow three-story dining room may seem pedestrian, the food at Lemongrass,
located around the block from the city's opera house, is not. The
straightforward, well-cooked southern Vietnamese fare (including an
inexpensive three-course lunch special) represents the region's fresh,
bright, vividly flavored cuisine perfectly. Try the grilled beef salad with
mango or the chicken sautéed with chile and lemongrass.
Located across from the Reunification
Hall, Nha hang Ngon is full of stalls offering a multitude of examples of
good
At La Maison 1988, you’ll dine in an
exquisite French setting inside
Hoi An (its sister restaurant is
Mandarine; see number 95) offers a quintessential Vietnamese dining
experience. Named after a central Vietnamese coast town influenced by Chinese
and French settlers, the romantic, cozy French-Vietnamese dining room is a
fitting setting for a menu of grilled shrimp in banana leaf with lime juice
and salt; tiny rice custards with crumbled shrimp; fried chicken with lemon
sauce; and cao lau - thin slices of pork, shrimp, and sesame cake served on
rice noodles - accompanied with marrow-bone broth.
Mandarine, the sister property to Hoi
An, which ranks 71 on our list, is an intimate, romantic, and upscale Chinese
restaurant populated with Chinese screen paintings, wooden carvings, and live
music. The menu is brimming with pricey spicy, sour, and salty dishes that
are the hallmark of Chinese cuisine. While the menu includes delicacies like
abalone, the foreign-friendly offerings also include the more approachable
grilled bay scallops with chopped scallions, peanuts, and herbs, and
beer-steamed crabs.
The dining options in
At Din Tai Fung, “what began as a
mom-and-pop cooking-oil shop has evolved into the home of what is arguably
the world’s best xiao long bao, a type of steamed bun filled with broth”.
Arguably the most dramatically
changed culinary landscape is that of
The Daily Meal’s 101 best restaurants
in
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Chủ Nhật, 12 tháng 1, 2014
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