Cara Taylor, a writer for the site Culture Trip, traveled to Saigon at the end of 2016 and explored the cuisine as well as learning about and meeting the street vendors here.

Fried bread

Ms. Xuan has been a bread seller in Saigon for 13 years.

Bread originated from France, was introduced to Vietnam and is now a dish available everywhere here.

Crab soup

A small cup of crab soup is sold right on the sidewalks of Saigon.

The next place that attracted Cara’s group’s attention was a food stall just a few meters away from Ms. Xuan’s bread cart.

Ms. Che has also been a street vendor for the past 20 years, so the job of getting soup and packaging it for customer after customer is not very difficult for her.

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Video: Emily Jane Smith.

Broken rice

After a full cup of crab soup, Cara’s group came to Ms. Thanh’s broken rice shop.

A plate of broken rice has a variety of flavors from spicy, sweet to sour, salty and also provides a lot of nutrition.

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Noodle soup

Next to Thanh’s restaurant is an older woman.

The owner has been selling this dish since he was very young. He learned how to cook it from his mother and then opened his own restaurant.

The signature bowl of orange-red vermicelli vermicelli.

Pepper cake

Around a corner and on a bustling street, Cara’s group found Ms. Quyen’s cart selling Banh Ti.

Ms. Quyen has been selling pepper cakes for half her life.

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Video: Emily Jane Smith.

Khot cake

Cara and her friends’ journey to discover street food ends with banh khot at a restaurant.

Banh Khot is a specialty of Vung Tau using mainly seafood ingredients such as shrimp and squid, with shrimp powder and herbs served as a side dish.

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Video: Emily Jane Smith.

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