$2 dollar Value meals....

Com (Rice) Vietnam : Value Meals for only $2 dollars or $ 30,000 vnd.
By Aly Abaquin


I always remember my stay in Brooklyn where they are sort of Chinese take outs or the ever present $5 ASIAN Chinese buffet in every nook and cranny in Brooklyn as also present in Manhattan. These restos are favorites of the employees, students & tourist as well as families… Here in HCMC they is also very much popular in fact this TOP joints is just around my neighborhood Hong Ha St Tan Binh Dist near the airport

This type of restaurants are a dime a dozen in HCMC. They are the favorite hangouts of employees, workers & students due to the meals are home cooked meals and way more
Cheaper than any other restaurant in the city that is commercially run.

This joint is operated by a closely knit family where in the matriarch always heads the kitchen and father & son holds the operations. The servers are either nephews & nieces. While the daughters always cooks and go to the market.

Hands down….For only 30,000 vnd or $ 2 dollars you get a bowl of rice, 2 viands, veggy soup and a side salad. But take note they have fried fish, fried chicken, pork, and
Grilled shrimps, and other meals with sauce. As well. Typically show in glass enclosure wherein all the customer needs to do is to point its finger to what he/she likes… In the Philippines this joint will be called “TURO TURO” or point point literally pertaining how customers point their fingers to the food.

My favorite is the Tofu & Pork in Tomato sauce and the Fish in clay pot.
Traditionally prepared and heavy in taste. The tofu is soft and fresh as well as the Fish is succinctly soft and amazingly tasty. While the spinach is blanch & the veggy soup with ocra & pepino is bland in taste. VALUE meals indeed but particularly prepared by the family for its guest. Inviting you to partake and be one of them.