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Tasty Thai @ Saigon

By ⋅ May 25, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

When I read this review on Ban­ga­lore Met­blogs, I couldn’t resist the temp­ta­tion to go and check out the food myself.

So along with Charles & Deb­bie (who were game to visit again!), Aqua and hubby, my sis­ter and blog­ger Sathish K, we had a nice and lovely long meal at Saigon yes­ter­day evening.

Warn­ing: Lots of food pic­tures ahead!

Starter

One of the starters was let­tuce leaves served with chut­ney, chillis, onions, gin­ger, peanuts… you mix every­thing, put on let­tuce and eat. Yummy!

Soup

The tom kha gai soup was deli­cious and tangy and had just the right bal­ance of coconut milk and lemon grass. My sis and I had tried the same soup at Mag­no­lia (in Kora­man­gala) ear­lier this week and I must say that this one won hands down!

More starters

Another starter was the bhetki fish (absolutely melt in your mouth) and the chicken satay with peanut sauce.

Saigon

Saigon is located on Church street. Cur­rently, it’s host­ing a Thai Food Fes­ti­val and has flown in Thai chef Chan­ta­nee from Bangkok espe­cially for this 3–4 weeks. We left the order­ing to her and she did full jus­tice, I must say.

Red Snapper

One of the main course items — red snap­per fish : nicely flavoured and very tasty.

Crab

By this time we were already quite full, but that didn’t stop us from tast­ing the soft deli­ciously done crab. Other dishes we had were aspara­gus with mush­rooms, thai flat noo­dles, prawn glass noo­dles and a minced chicken with basil and lemon (since we didn’t order from the menu, I have no idea what the actual names are).

Sticky Rice

And to end the huge meal, we had the khao niew mamuang — sticky rice served with mango : not too sweet and the mango goes really well with the coconut flavoured rice.

As my sis com­mented, very flavour­ful food and every dish had its dis­tinct taste but com­ple­mented each other well. If you want to visit while the Chef Chan­ta­nee is around, you need to go before June 2nd after which she moves on to Civet.

You can ask her to rec­om­mend dishes based on your bud­get; that’s what we did and it worked well for us. And extra for drinks.

Bon Appetit!

Discussion

7 Responses to “Tasty Thai @ Saigon”

  1. Thai food in Viet­nam?? Lol.

    Posted by Mj | May 25, 2007, 6:24 pm

  2. I have to say that Thai food is my favorite. And my town does NOT have a decent Thai restau­rant (like Chicago did). We do, how­ever, have an amaz­ing range of Viet­namese restau­rants because there is a sig­nif­i­cant Viet­namese pop­u­la­tion here. I have to go to Den­ver (65–70 miles) to get to any­thing decent. But this week I had to go to Den­ver for work, and I man­aged to have a won­der­ful Thai meal, which also included a sticky rice dessert. Good choice!

    Posted by Suz | May 26, 2007, 11:07 am

  3. yum yum…i missed the show!!

    Posted by Rajesh | May 26, 2007, 11:46 am

  4. I’ll def­i­nitely con­vey the com­pli­ments to Yu Hin, chef of the restau­rant, who is a dear class­mate of mine, an Assamese whose grand­par­ents migrated from China to India…He speaks assamese bet­ter than me :)

    Posted by Layon | June 5, 2007, 6:20 pm

  5. @ Mj: appar­ently, yes :) they are good friendly neighbours!

    @ Suz: haven’t had much viet­namese in ban­ga­lore, i must admit!
    @ Rajesh: there’s always a next time!

    @ Layon: oh really? i will say hello the next time!!

    Posted by Anita | June 6, 2007, 4:38 pm

Trackbacks/Pingbacks

  1. […] May 27th, 2007 by sathishk On Thurs­day I went to Saigon restau­rant, thanks to the invite from Anita Bora. This restau­rant is located in Church Street just next to Amoeba, the bowl­ing cen­ter. It was abotu 6 months since I vis­ited MG Road and these nearby areas. I met few other inter­est­ing peo­ple at the din­ner table. The food was just amaz­ing. Its def­i­nitely a place to visit and worth the money. There was chef from who had come all the way down to pre­pare spe­cial thai food. Early June she would be mov­ing over to Civet. So, you can catch up with the chef for her exotic dishes here before June or in Civet early June. For the dishes we had and their names and other peo­ple at the din­ner table, head to Anita’s blog. […]
    Saigon Restaurant - Thai Food « My Blogs - May 27, 2007

  2. […] Saigon is a restau­rant located on the 3rd floor of Ruby Tues­day build­ing besides Ameoba on the same side at Church Street off Brigade road. They have labled them­selves as pan asian cui­sine. We went in for Oasis first on the same road decid­ing on sea food but that night the atten­dent informed they do not have any fish item and told they had a own­er­ship change recently — things will be nor­mal again from tom­morow. But we wanted it that very night. So we moved on to Oye Amrit­sar! but looked like the wait time will be more, so I decided to check the restau­rant on the pre­vi­ous floor, which is Saigon restau­rant. I went on to enquire and I was quite impressed with the inte­rior. Saigon restau­rant have quite a few vari­ety of dishes like Indone­sian, Thai, Viet­namese etc. This is a lit­tle upmar­ket restau­rant so ask­ing for rec­om­men­da­tion based on bud­get in case if you have any from the atten­ders there may work as men­tioned by Anita on her blog. […]
    Saigon Restaurant - October 7, 2007

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