In Saigon, try the Vietnamese green papaya salad at Le Van Tam Park. For more details, click here ► http://migrationology.com/2015/02/vietnamese-papaya-salad/
One day when I was in Saigon, we walked over to Le Van Tam Park. We didn’t really go to the park to exercise, or to even walk around the park… but we went to search for a snack, known as goi du du, or Vietnamese green papaya salad. After walking around the park for a little while, we found the crowd of people sitting around on the tree planters, scarfing down plates of papaya salad, and I knew were were in the right place.
I didn’t know exactly what I was doing, but luckily I was able to motion to order a plate of the salad. The salad is actually assembled somewhere at a street stall across the road, but most of the little metal plates are assembled then brought over to the park and served there. When you order, the lady first asks you how you’d like it, with some extra chili sauce or not. She then scoops on some dressing, and some chili sauce, and then hands you a plate of fresh goodness.
After getting my plate of goi du du, I chose a seat on the first tree planter, where they had laid out some little pieces of canvas for sitting, and sat down to eat. The Vietnamese green papaya salad included a nice handful of shredded green papaya, along with a bunch of sliced Vietnamese coriander, some beef jerky (I think that’s what it was), the sweet fish sauce dressing, a squirt of chili sauce, and finally some cracker like chips on the top. Although the dressing was a little on the sweet side for my usual taste, it was still really good, and it was so fresh tasting. Also, sitting on the side of the park, enjoying the cool breeze in the heat of Saigon, plus a little air and away from the chaos of the roads, was a highly enjoyable experience. If you travel to Saigon, eating Vietnamese green papaya salad at Le Van Tam park is a great thing to do.
The Vietnamese street food green papaya salad stall is located at Le Van Tam Park in Saigon, and they set up on what is sort of the western corner of the park each afternoon at about 2 pm or so and sell until evening. A good time to go is about 3 – 5 pm, and I think it can get really busy around the later afternoon or evening when everyone is out and about and when people are off work.
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Actually, the dressing is not the fish sauce but soy sauce. But anyway, this dish is the best at Le Van Tam park.
Thank you bro.beautiful
Who is watching in 2020? 😄
Hello Mark, I lived in Canada. When I traveled to Vietnam in 2010. I ate papaya salad everyday, never get bored. I loved it. Too bad, I can't find any place in Canada make the same papaya salad like in Vietnam. Well done. Thank you for sharing your video.
good food and video💯👍
Mark… where is the PHO….
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It is Thai basi
It is not beef jerky but liver jerkey
you are so boring Mark i think you talk too much and keep repeating yourself
that salad very addicted for me every time when back home…
Great!
Then again…. seeing u having street food is not good enough to get likes and views.
I know this blog has been for sometime- just wanna share that we would like to see u more eating different diashes in a day.
By the end of the day- morw views mean something , right Bro?
Goi du du
Eat Fab. Stay hungry my friend!
It's sweet BEEF jerky!
That looks ngon qua.
One of my fav place for Gỏi đu đủ! Nice video!!!
The black stuff is liver jerkey
What is the fritter made of?
the black meat is actually beef liver Mark
hope its not dog meat
That's always supposed to be served with basil, not coriander.
Did I just witness a drug deal?!? 😧
the black beef jerky is freaking so good.
Beef jerky is the "black thing" lol
it-is-delicious
The black thing is pork liverrr!
the black meat is beef jerky 😀
please keep making vids i really enjoy them.. you have a simple intro not like other youtubers they talk sooooooooo much.. you get down to business and because of that i love your channel
Why you don't eat rice paper or banh tran
i like your videos , it's good your put $ dollar prices instead of VN dong . Kylele put dong. i had to figure out how much every time i watched his videos. Thanks
Is that meat Neu Sawan?
it used to be a grave yard my aunt got a house there right arcoss the street , as kid we used play soccer on the alley now it turn to a city park iwas 12 back then reminded of child hood mark thnsk
18 thousand dong for a papaya salad is quite expensive, but anyway, it's the center so everything are much more expensive
$0,83 :OO
my gosh! my heart melts seeing this park… i haven't been there since 2009. thanks for your video.
beside that black stuff is scorpion
I've had Vietnamese papaya salad, it's a little on the sweet side. I'm all about the Lao & Thai papaya salad.
You're so brave. There's something like that Black beef liver is quite "strong" for normal stomach 🙂
Mark my friend Thai, God bless you and your family
Mark, is it possible to travel via car from Bangkok to Saigon?
Great video! Love the food 😛😛
First class, first class
you answered my question before I asked it. You must be a mind reader from thousands of miles away . . . I was going to ask how your papaya salad compared with the Thai papaya salad. BTW, the temperature tonight will be -25 degrees C with a windchill of – 37 degrees C. I prefer the hot. i'm in Peterborough Ontario, Canada
I am living near LVT park and lucky enough to try so many good dishes here :3 Love to see you like them too 😀
You made me hungry!
thanks
That park look nice and so does the salad.
Hi mark … try out the mixing paper rice cake .. they are very popular street food too.
Hello when r u moving back to USA