Restaurant Saku Saku — Restaurant in Ho Chi Minh City

I might have been the only non-Japanese in there. As long as you can stand to hear Japanese being spoken, you should be fine.

I wanted to try the mapo tofu (labeled "mabo" tofu), but it seemed a little high for tofu, esp compared to the other items. I went for a J-curry ramen and ordered a rice bowl + raw eggs (tamagokake gohan). The tamagokake looked like a bowl versus a cup of rice, and it was a good-sized serving. Initially, they brought it out, and I had to wait a bit for the ramen to come so they were nice enough to swap the rice for hot/fresh rice. Once you mix the eggs with the rice, it tastes fine (probably like it's supposed to taste).

This is a rare instance of the menu photo looking like the food being served. It looked pretty spot on. The bowl turned out to be larger than I expected (which is good) and I didn't realize there was going to be pork mixed in, and there was a lot of it - for me, great! The taste was good. A good, solid J-curry flavor. Everything tasted fresh.

The mapo tofu would have been 200K ($8.25) or more with rice & soup - which would always come with rice in Korea or America(?). I'm sure it's good here, though.

I thought about the chicken, which also looks good.

The curry ramen is 120K ($4.95). The tamagokake rice is...

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