Self cooked - Prawn with minced garlic and minced garlic/parsley & Portobello mushroom stuffed with minced garlic/parsley and minced meat

Managed to get some fresh prawn and portobello mushroooms and decided to prepare the following simple dish; Prawn with minced garlic and minced garlic/parsley & Portobello mushroom stuffed with minced garlic/parsley and minced meat;

Stuffed Prawn prior to fried

Cooked prawn - should have skewed

Cooked portobello mushroom

Signature Restaurant - Pan Asian Cuisine - Sheraton Saigon Hotel & Towers, HCMC

For dinner, I decided to have it in hotel instead of going out since I was alone.

A new landmark joining the Saigon skyline.....wasn't there during my last last trip there. View from Sheraton Hotel Saigon's room

Signature restaurant menu

Assorted bread - nicely baked and I almost had it all, hungry or too good ?

Complimentary from the chef.....wasabi foie gras...good combination and nice pairing, but I did not finish it since i need to watch my cholesterol level

Assorted Oyster Vietnamese way- one of my favorites raw dish besides shashimi

Local Vietnamese Restaurant - Lunch

The following day, my host brought me to have a lunch with one of his customers. I enjoyed local vietnamese cuisine and tried most of the dishes until after some booze, the customers suggested something more delicacy...snake (I never took the dish but just the pictures)....the Vietnamese indulge in such delicacy just like the Chinese! Some of the pics taken as below....

Snake gall

Sanke blood and gall

Fried snake flesh & skin with vege 

Snake soup

snake soup from top of pot view

Close shot of snake soup

Snake skin - streched

Micro brewery Lion on District 1 Saigon

It had been more than 4 or 5 years since my last trip to HCMC, I had been to this popular micro brewery on District 1 (the so called expensive area in HCMC), perhaps twice in my last few trips. This place is popular with foreigners as it offers fresh brewed beers - aka german micro brewery in the region, like Paulaner. I was brought to this place as my host thought as a foreigner, this is the place to go hahah...We ordered of course beers to gulp and other standard dishes....of the more special one was below Star Fish;

Star Fish - had it for the first time

part of the shell been knocked off....

knocked off shell....

the pretty lady at work....

the pretty lass was happy when I shot her....

the complete shell that was removed from Star Fish

Por Jai iAuthentic Thai Restaurant in Serangoon Garden

Was walking around Serangoon Garden one evening and since its dinner time, scouting the area for any special local favorites....the popular Chomp Chomp Food Centre was packed and the queue was overwhelming.....as I hate to queue for food, decided to move to another vicinity and found this Thai restaurant.

the kangkong belacan...lacked oomph and perhaps wok was not hot to have the wok flavor (the one tasted in Bangkok was nicer)

Red curry pork....pork has the odour - not to my liking.

tom yum kung....enough punch...spice, sourness, chilly fire

always the must order when patronise Thai restaurant - chicken green curry was not fresh (well, the fact that you only found frozen chicken, what else can you expect)