For Bien and Le Thuy’s second last night here in Saigon we decided to spoil ourselves with a lavish buffet dinner at the Saigon Cafe, a buffet restaurant on the 1st floor of the Sheraton Saigon Hotel. Man, this place never disappoints! Everything was so good. Bien and Le Thuy couldn’t get enough of the oyster mornay which was totally delish. The mud crab was also totally amazing. Between the three of us I think we downed a total of four or five crabs. We should have taken more photos of all the other amazing dishes that we ate but we were all too involved with eating we didn’t want to make time.

Anyways, check out the photos. And we were only able to make time to take the dessert shots ‘cause we were all pretty full by then. Haha, we sure did stuff ourselves that night.

Man, Singapore is one interesting city. So culturally diverse city with heaps of great places to eat. With everything from the super spicy Indonesian dishes, Indian curries and traditional Chinese yum cha Singapore has got it all. A highlight was the all you can eat steamboat buffet we had on our last night. For SG$12.80 per head which is about USD$8.50 you get half tom yum and half traditional chicken soup steamboat with unlimited small mud crabs, prawns, fish, deer, mutton, various varities of tasty mushroom and all the other traditional steamboat dishes. Nghia ate so much he had to leave the table early and head upstairs to lay down. Haha it was hillarious seeing him complain and shit.

We also did all the touristy things and visited the Night Safari and Sentosa Island.

Anyways, check out the photos. Some of these were taken from my camera phone so the quality isn’t that crash.

A couple of days ago on the eve of the Lunar New Year (The 2007 Lunar New Year in Vietnam begins on the 17th as opposed to the 18th of February this year due to the 1 hour time difference between Hanoi and Beijing. The Chinese calendar is based on astronomical observations and therefore dependent on local time.) I went and had dinner at my youngest uncle’s house in district 8 which is about 20 minutes motorcycle ride from central Saigon.

We had steamboat and steamed coral trout which was magnificent. I couldn’t wait to get into it so I didn’t get the chance to take any photos of it haha. The night ended with a few glasses of Hennessy XO which was nice. Haha and it got me a bit pissed as well.

Yes, I know it’s two posts about food in a row. It’s no wonder why I’m getting fat. Haha anyways, the other day I was feeling a little bit peckish so I thought I’d cook up a hunger busting Kraft macaroni and cheese dinner. To make it a little bit more interesting I decided to thrown in some prawns and canned tuna.

So yeah, I basically cooked it all up, threw in the prawn and tuna mix, added some cheddar cheese for extra bite and that’s it. My seafood macaroni and cheese dinner was ready for me to chow down. Check out the photos!

I wouldn’t really consider all these dishes fast food but anyways, I just wanted to share a few photos of the food I’ve eaten at my home in Saigon. I hardly ever cook so to satisfy my hunger when I’m at home I order in. Good thing for me most of the restaurants around here deliver.

Ok, so the dishes are as follows. Chinese seafood noodles, omelette with ham served with salad and crusty bread, fried prawns in taro batter, potato skins with bacon, cheese and spring onion, my own instant noodle creation stir fried with crab stick and tuna, and last of all crab spring rolls.

Everything you see has been ordered in with the exception of my instant noodle creation of course. So yeah, that’s pretty much it. Oh and a new restaurant just opened in my apartment building so I’ll be posting up some more dishes soon.