Bun Dau Homemade — Restaurant in Ho Chi Minh City

A busy restaurant with cool deco and pro looking service staff. They even have live violin & guitar performance on a Sunday evening! The food is not that impressive though. Not too many options on the menu and the taste is not authentic either. I'd say just Ok for the food quality, somewhere around 3 over 5 stars would be generous enough to evaluate. I can't pick a dish to recommend yet Not recommended at all - stuffed snails with lemongrass. So boring and the fish sauce is plain. Speaking of drinks, if you are a fan of apricot juice, you'd be super disappointed if you try it here. It's sugar water with sugarcoat apricot to be honest. If you are looking for a fun place where Bun Dau is served in a fancy restaurant with nice decoration, give it a try. But if you would like authentic food,...

The bun dau is great -- as is any dish with mam tom, my new favourite condiment. I had the budget version in Hanoi and this was better, as it wasn't served with pigs' tongue and the tofu was fried properly. I would warn you off the other dishes, though. We got the tofu stew and it was abominable, an oily soup of slimy tofu, raw mushrooms and semi-liquid cheese, like someone had tried to add bolognese sauce to a fondue. I'm deducting a further star for the half-crushed cockroach lying on its back under our table. It writhed and wriggled for the best part of half an hour. How the staff did not pick it up off the floor and put it out of its misery...

My first time trying Bun Dau Homemade despite living and often passing by the place for several years.

The menu is quite small, but all the dishes we had were delicious. Prices are higher than say... a local restaurant in an alleyway that specializes in just one dish, but this is a centralized location with nice views and cleaner facilities.

Mam Tom (shrimp paste) may be too pungent for foreigners (including myself), but it comes on the side and you can always get soy sauce with...