Nguyen Thuong Hien Food Street, District 3, is a dining address that is attracting a lot of tourists and young people in Ho Chi Minh City, with many cheap street foods.
Nguyen Thuong Hien Food Street (from Dien Bien Phu Street to Nguyen Dinh Chieu, District 3) operates from 19:00 to 23:00 every day, starting to welcome guests on the evening of December 21, 2022. The gate to the neighborhood at both ends is fitted with signs, decorated with lights as well as renovated the landscape.
The Nguyen Thuong Hien culinary project is currently only deployed in Ward 4, connecting two routes Nguyen Dinh Chieu and Dien Bien Phu. Here, the two sides of the road are drawn about 1m wide to display tables and chairs for visitors to experience. On the route, there are 92 food businesses and 51 shops selling clothes, shoes, and beauty products.
At 19:00, shops are allowed to set up tables and chairs to sell food and drink to customers. The shops provide their chairs when they have not been assigned by the ward. Diners coming to the street can park their cars at 1 Nguyen Thuong Hien or Vuon Chuoi market car park. It is necessary to ask about the operating time of the parking lots around here, to avoid the case closing early compared to the time to visit food street (19h-23h).
Coming here, curious visitors are the houses with modest widths, the signs are close together.
The food here is quite diverse, with main street or regional dishes throughout the country such as rice paper (mixed, grilled), chicken, grilled pork, fried dough, fruit juice, and mixed bamboo… Most of the dishes are cheap, only a few thousand to a few tens of thousands, and easy to bring or ship home.
A tré trộn stall. Tré trộn is a popular dish here and is a specialty of the Central region, the ingredients include the pig’s scalp, ears, and nose with spices such as sesame, garlic, pepper, and chili.
Other dishes that can be found include grilled meat, including pork, chicken, and beef. A skewer costs about 30,000 VND.
Having just come to Ho Chi Minh City to travel, Nguyen Thuong Hien is the first food street Mr. Quang and Ms. Vien (Da Nang) experienced. “We stayed at a hotel recently, looked on the map of the crowded area, and came to it. The first impression was that the food was cheap and delicious.” The two brothers and sisters said that they will experience more famous dishes such as mixed rice paper, mixed bamboo, and baked goods.
After experiencing the food street, visitors can move to other famous places in District 3 to visit such as Saigon station, Tan Dinh church, Con Rua lake, Vinh Nghiem pagoda, Chantarangsay pagoda, museum. War Remnants. In 2019, Nguyen Thuong Hien Street was voted by Time Out magazine (British Life and Travel Handbook) as one of the 20 most attractive neighborhoods in the world.
