MOTORBIKE RIDE IN SAI GON

Tour Itinerary

At 6pm, you are picked by our local guide and we start our motorbike trip around the city.

Before filling up your belly, we would get to understand a bit of Sai Gon history by visiting Thich Quang Duc monument, a monk who burned himself for immolation.

We first try a Com Tam. Typically, a Vietnamese broken rice plate is served with grilled meat, egg meatloaf or sunny-side-up egg, tomato, lettuce and cucumber salad, carrot and radish pickles, and a generous amount of fish sauce.

Back in the day, Vietnamese farmers would eat the fractured rice grains they could not sell. Nowadays, “broken” rice is a food staple for the everyday working-class citizen. For a meal of humble origins, the preparations for cơm tấm can get very decadent.

Continue to visit the Ho Thi Ky flower street. Let’s try a local pancake, Banh Trang Nuong. It is more for young people but so tasty even if you never heard of it before. 

Banh trang nuong refers to round crunchy rice crackers cooked over charcoal and topped with any number of ingredients. They’re a popular night time snack food that’s often referred to as “Vietnamese pizza”.

Are you thirsty a bit? A fruit juice would cool you down after spicy dish before. With a tropical climate, Viet Nam is so rich of fruits and vegetables. A juice could tell you how much fresh and beautiful flavour it is.

Besides, Banh Xeo is second popular dish in the South. It does not fill up you somehow, it just gives a taste of five flavours in cooking.

Vietnamese pancake or bánh xèo is a very popular street food to every Vietnamese. It has a crispy crepe-like layer made of a mix of turmeric powder and rice flour, stuffed with various ingredients, but most common are veggies, mung beans and meat, sometimes seafood or pork. The word “xèo” means “sizzling” deriving from the sound of rice batter creates when poured into the hot pan. The dish’s origin is still a mystery; however; no matter where it first appeared, each region offers a unique experience. 

The size and ingredients of the dish can vary in different regions, the southern banh xeo are bigger served with a lot of vegetables and bean sprouts, whereas the central ones are smaller made without bean sprouts. You may be surprised that more than 93 recipes are found to make a Vietnamese pancake, which can satisfy both vegetarians and meat-eaters.

Our final stop would be a nice local dessert, Che. And you might be impressed why Vietnamese eat a lot of sweet things but still stay in shape. 

Chè is a sweet dessert, served either hot or cold and in the form of a pudding or dessert soup. Cold chè is filled with jellied ingredients and tropical fruits such as bananas, mangoes and longan, usually doused in coconut cream. Always a textural adventure, you’ll be surprised to encounter coconut shreds, crushed ice, lotus seed and jellies in these syrupy snacks. The beautiful three-coloured dessert, chè ba màu is often called the rainbow dessert. This is a layered spectacle of red beans, mashed mung beans and pandan jelly, topped with crushed ice and coconut milk.

Drive back to hotel. End of service.