Top Local Tips for Ho Chi Minh

La Fourchette - fantastic food If staying in disrtict 1 and looking for top-notch bistro type French food, try La Fourchette. It's to be found on 9 Ngo Duc Ke street (across the road from the Grand Hotel). The staff is very well trained, food is excellent, the wine selection is good. The price is very reasonable for what you get. The owner, Jean-Luc, is a great guy and he knows his trade.

La Fourchette - fantastic food If staying in disrtict 1 and looking for top-notch bistro type French food, try La Fourchette. It's to be found on 9 Ngo Duc Ke street (across the road from the Grand Hotel). The staff is very well trained, food is excellent, the wine selection is good. The price is very reasonable for what you get. The owner, Jean-Luc, is a great guy and he knows his trade.

Beware of Taxi Drivers Twice we travelled to the Ben Thah markets, when the doorman called a taxi, it costs 20,000 dong but when we got a metered taxi back (the same distance) it was 96,000 dong - at first we paid it as he made quite a show of abusing us, the next time when they wouldnt accept 20,000 dong, we sat in the taxi and asked him to call the police, he couldnt get us out of the taxi quick enough - we were only a few blocks away but didnt want to walk in the heat, it costs us the same amount to get back to the airport a trip of around 30 minutes as it costs us to go a few blocks