Hoa Tuc, Vietnamese
74/1a Hai Bà Trưng, Bến Nghé, Quận 1
Hồ Chí Minh/Saigon, Vietnam
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A Michelin guide restaurant
Will return
It’s a scene.
Great location, delicious food, service is slow and spotty.
We made reservation for four but an elderly couple – our mates on tour, ran into us at the massage parlor next door, who decided to join us. We couldn’t say no. The restaurant accommodated us, by adding two chairs: Thanks. Two extras made our table cramped – our own fault.
I always like Vietnamese pho and fried spring rolls, their spring rolls are awesome.
The stem, Ocean (brand) looks good but the rim bits back.
The wines: J Lohr Cypress’s Chardonnay is a twist-off (without vintage) that sells at $12.99 in US, 1,450,000 vnd ($57) at this Vietnamese restaurant, which would account 50% on our bill. It reminds me of China: in 2003, there were hardly any decent table wines domestic or imports; a few merchants stuck rich by importing or smuggling in cheap wines from US and the West in the intervening years, selling them at premium. By 2014, Chateau Lafite-Rothschild is widely recognized by the top 1% as the best red; and $10 Italian table wine sold for $100 in a steakhouse in Shanghai in 2018. Regardless of the markets and the inner working of the two Asian countries, this restaurant in Vietnam only upend the margin 4 times, while China 10x.
