Travel to Saigon: Food tour with Kyle Le

Before coming to Vietnam, I ran a contest for a food guide in Ho Chi Minh City, and the winner was Kyle Le, a Vietnamese-American YouTuber now living in HCMC.As expected, we did a lot of food-hopping, from chao via (duck congee) to banh con (steamed rice rolls, which I should add is John’s favorite Vietnamese dish) to (cuc chien bo (butter-fried quail). For the record, the duck congee with offal was excellent, the rice rolls were pretty fantastic, and the quail was decent, except for the fact that Vietnamese people use this terrible margarine that tastes of chemicals in lieu of real butter. I don’t blame them—that’s what they have available, and that’s what they’re used to—but nothing can beat the glorious taste of real butter.In between stops, Kyle took the hubs and me to a dog cafe where, contrary to what you might be thinking, we petted the dogs. I’ve heard of cat cafes in Japan and then New York, but this was the first time I’ve been to some sort of animal cafe. It was a bizarre experience, but I’m glad I gave it a try.Have you ever been to an animal café? Cool or weird?