12 Must-try Afternoon Snacks in Ho Chi Minh City, Saigon/HoChiMinh City, Vietnam

Ho Chi Minh City is renowned as the heaven of delicious food for over years. In the blog of Saigon Food: 12 Must-Eat Dishes and Where to Find Them, I recommend you guys 12 main courses in Saigon (an old name of Ho Chi Minh City). This time, it turns to be an authentic ‘Saigonese’ with 12 popular afternoon snacks in Ho Chi Minh City.

To begin with, having a snack in the afternoon, in Vietnamese, is called as “ăn nhẹ” or “ăn xế”, which means spending a bit of money (ranging around VND 30,000) to have a tasty and fast food during break time. Actually, “ăn xế” in Vietnam is something that becomes a point of our culture. The time to take the afternoon snack varies but ranges from 3 pm to over 6 pm. And the reason why people choose this section of time is easy, it’s in break time, and it’s perfect to fill up a stomach with something gentle but scrumptious.

In my country, there are countless choices that you can take to have a tasty “ăn xế” with affordable prices ranging from VND 1,000 to VND 50,000. Another plus point for an afternoon snack is that you can find these dishes in any corners of the city. Yet, having a snack is easy but to know a good place for a particular snack is another story. Therefore, let’s follow me and I’ll disclose where to make your snack time enjoyable! ...... (follow the instructions below for accessing the rest of this article).