A popular restaurant in a century-old market is famous for its delicious food, stacked like mountains. The owner looks at customers and tells them the prices.

Visit Binh Tay Market, District 6, Ho Chi Minh City at noon, go into the food court and you will see Ms. Nguyet's popular rice stall. On normal days, Ms. Nguyet's shop is always "bustling" because of the large number of customers coming to eat.

On busy weekdays, Ms. Nguyet's cheap restaurant in Binh Tay market is always full of food. Photo from PM Food Travel clip, Ngoc Sai Gon Pho.

A popular restaurant in Binh Tay market, making 17-18 delicious dishes every day.

- What would you like to eat? Are you eating here or taking away? Fried pork belly, anything else?

- Do you want to eat less rice or more rice? Okay, I'll do it right away!

Ms. Nguyet spoke while quickly cooking for the guests. After finishing cooking for the guests, she quickly cooked another dish. That's why the food here is always hot.

Ms. Nguyet, owner of a popular restaurant in Binh Tay market, District 6, Ho Chi Minh City.

We visited Ms. Nguyet's rice stall at Binh Tay market on Sunday, so the shop was quieter and had fewer customers than on weekdays, but because of that, we had the opportunity to talk to the owner more. "When you go to Binh Tay market, just ask people about Ms. Tam Nguyet, who sells rice, and everyone will know!" - Ms. Nguyet said with a smile. Ms. Nguyet's rice stall therefore doesn't need a sign, but regular customers still come in droves.

It turns out that most of the customers who come to eat at Ms. Nguyet's stall are workers in the market, whom Ms. Nguyet often calls "soldiers". Many of the brothers who work in the market are long-time customers of Ms. Nguyet's shop , and they come to Ms. Nguyet's shop every day as a habit. Some people even happily call Ms. Nguyet "ma", because the food Nguyet cooks is as delicious as home-cooked meals.

On weekends when there are few customers, Ms. Nguyet also makes fewer dishes.

Ms. Nguyet said that on weekdays, she makes up to 17-18 dishes so that customers have many choices and her dishes change constantly. Therefore, customers can eat every day without getting bored. There are fried pork belly, roast pork, braised chicken thighs, braised snakehead fish with pepper, stir-fried vegetables, fried snakehead fish, stir-fried intestines with pickled cabbage, stir-fried water spinach, meatballs with tomato sauce, braised fish with bamboo shoots... every dish looks eye-catching and attractive. Perhaps the thing that makes customers worry the most when visiting the shop is not knowing what to eat because every dish looks delicious.

The dishes here are cooked family style, simple but very delicious.

"I make a lot of dishes, but I keep changing them around, because if I sell the same dishes all the time, people will get bored. I sell them from morning, I sell breakfast because the market here opens at 6am. I sell a different breakfast dish every day. On Mondays I sell Hue beef noodle soup, on Tuesdays I sell Nam Vang noodles, on Wednesdays I sell beef ball noodles, on Thursdays I sell meatball noodles, on Fridays I sell beef stew..." As soon as she finishes making breakfast, Nguyet turns to making lunch dishes. Thanks to that, her lunch is always hot enough to blow on and eat.

Talking about her dishes, Ms. Nguyet shared that fried pork belly is one of the dishes that customers really like because the fried meat is crispy, the skin is crispy, and has a salty taste, so it goes well with rice. If you pay close attention, you will see that the dishes Ms. Nguyet makes are mostly braised dishes or have rich sauces, so that customers can eat them with rice for a delicious taste. And workers also like to cook like this because they can eat a lot of rice, feel full, and have energy to work.

Ms. Nguyet has been in this job for 17 years.

Each person sells at a different price, with lunch boxes delivered to customers. Regular customers get their own bowls to serve rice and soup.

"Up to now, Ms. Nguyet has been selling for about 17 years, and selling here for about 7 years. She cooks food like eating at home, we always make it here" - Ms. Nguyet said. Although she has not been selling at the market for too long, simply because of the quality as well as the generous way of selling, Ms. Nguyet has always won the hearts of everyone.

Regular customers come to eat and get their own bowls of soup and rice.

Ms. Nguyet, the saleswoman, also looks at the customers' faces and tells them the price. She says: "I sell to passersby for 35 thousand, to 'soldiers' or lottery ticket sellers for 30 thousand, to beggars for 15 thousand, and to those who don't have money, I give it all away. Never mind, if you give it to someone, you get something else in return." Not only that, customers who come here can eat as much rice and soup as they want. Many regular customers even come in and serve themselves rice and soup as if they were at home.

The simple but delicious meals are enough for workers to eat their fill and have the energy to work.

Customers can order by the plate, many regulars here like to put rice in a large bowl and take it to eat for convenience. Because there are not many seats here, Ms. Nguyet also sells take-out and delivery to customers nearby. In particular, Ms. Nguyet's stall also has lunch boxes available for customers to eat. The 3-compartment lunch box has rice, vegetables, meat, and soup pre-divided. Perhaps not many restaurants have this way of delivering food.

The dishes here are made in a rich style so they go very well with rice.

A portion of rice here will include rice, vegetables, a type of meat and soup, with a price of only 35,000 VND, it can be seen that it is quite full and of good quality. The dishes are seasoned well, many dishes will be a bit sweet because they are made according to Southern taste, but overall it is very "cool".

Every day, Ms. Nguyet cooks 7 pots of rice, equivalent to about 35kg of rice, and less on weekends. As for the food, it depends on the dish, but she makes about 20 portions of each dish. It is known that Ms. Nguyet goes to the market early every day to get the freshest food, even though it is a simple restaurant , the food is of extremely high quality.

Go to Binh Tay market and ask for Tam Nguyet restaurant and everyone will know.

If you want to eat Ms. Nguyet's cheap rice, go to stall number 1 at Binh Tan market, District 6, Ho Chi Minh City. The experience of eating cheap rice in the market like this will definitely be very interesting!

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