The truth about the popular broken rice meal priced at 300,000 VND sold to Western customers in Ho Chi Minh City

Recently, Raina Huang, an American tourist, continuously posted 4 short clips, recording her experience when trying Saigon broken rice. Each clip is a process from the moment Raina Huang orders, the restaurant delivers the food until the Western customer enjoys the meal.

However, when the short clips above became trending, they caused a lot of controversy. argue about price. Raina Huang said, the broken rice meal she ordered cost 12 USD (nearly 300,000 VND).

In the rice meal there are: Two bowls of broken rice covered with onion fat two large ribs pork skin mixed with shredded pork sausage two shumai balls two small sausages two Fried egg with two pieces of pork ribs served with sweet and sour salad and dipping sauce.

Many comments said that in the “capital” of broken rice like Ho Chi Minh City, they were quite surprised to hear a plate of broken rice being sold. for nearly 300,000 VND.

According to some diners from Ho Chi Minh City, it is not difficult to find shops selling delicious pork ribs and broken rice in any alley in the city. The average price only ranges from 25,000 – 35,000 VND, or more than 50,000 – 60,000 VND.

It is known that Raina Huang eats broken rice at Ba Ghien broken rice restaurant. This is a long-standing, popular and famous broken rice restaurant in Ho Chi Minh City. This restaurant is also listed by Michelin as a popular and affordable restaurant (Bib Gourmand).

In the clips experiencing many different dishes, Raina Huang also often orders larger portions than usual. It can be seen that this is a type of challenge she set for herself when working as a food reviewer (someone who experiences culinary reviews).

The American guest ate the above 2 portions of rice in one go. easy. During the meal, she continuously praised the broken rice dish here and wanted to introduce it to her followers on social networking sites.

Raina Huang is a famous tiktoker youtuber American. Recently she came to Vietnam and experienced a series of famous street foods such as vermicelli, sticky rice, sugarcane juice, noodle soup, noodle soup…