Inside Saigon’s 30-year-old noodles shop, a tasty dance of tomato, crab paste and blood pudding
The restaurant opens for six hours every day and usually serves 500 customers. The Nguyen Thu Nga "bun rieu" restaurant, named after its owner, stands busy on Nguyen Huu Hao Street, District 4, Ho Chi Minh City. Nga serves the popular southern soup which is rice vermicilli going with crab paste and pork knuckles in tomato-based broth. “It was initially just a small business on the sidewalk in 1988. Then I changed the location and made it bigger in 2011,” said Nga,