Restaurant Reviews

Over the next several weeks, I will write some reviews of restaurants in Tra Vinh. I will also make audio files and videos about these restaurants and post them to share with others.

I have two main goals in doing this. The first is to give Vietnamese people who are learning English some useful language that can help them. Most Vietnamese people will already know the things that I will write about (com tam, ca phe sua da, banh mi, banh xeo, sinh to), but this isn't a problem. Because they will already know about this things, it will help them guess the meaning of what I'm writing. Because all of these restaurant blogs will be about familiar topics (ideas, things), Vietnamese people will find them easier to understand. And because these are all very Vietnamese kinds of foods, I think that Vietnamese people will find these blogs useful when they try to explain these foods to foreigners.

The second group of people I want to help are foreigners coming to Tra Vinh or to other places in Vietnam. I will try to describe some of the different foods and also some of the different rules for getting and eating food in restaurants. For Vietnamese people, it might seem strange that I am writing about rules. For Vietnamese, it is obvious (clear) how to get food or eat food in different kinds of businesses, but this is not obvious for foreigners. I hope that these reviews will help foreigners explore (go, see, and learn new things) Vietnam more easily.

Here is the list of restaurants (and other eating or drinking places) that I want to write about.

1. Bay Loan--a com tam restaurant.
2. Nguyet Anh--a WiFi cafe
3. Huu Nghi--a pho restaurant
4. a sinh to place
5. Bay Mon Bo--a great place to get many different kinds of beef
6. a place to buy banh mi and other French breads
7. a banh xeo place not far from Uncle Ho Temple
8. a restaurant in the Tra Vinh Market
9. To Nga--a com tam place near the university
10. the canteen at Campus One
11. a banh mi vendor
12. a banh bao vendor
13. a garden cafe near the main gate
14. a garden cafe outside the city to the south
15. a vegetarian meal at a Buddhist temple for ram
16. a bakery on Dien Bien Phu street
17. a place selling sweets in Tra Vinh Market
18. 999 Cafe near Campus One