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No. 31 in the world · November 2026
Bún Bò Huế Đông Ba
No. 31The one bowl to order
Bún bò Huế đặc biệt: the spicy lemongrass beef soup with pork hock and crab cake
Huế's spicy, lemongrass-red beef noodle soup, made the old way in Saigon.
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Bún bò Huế: spicy lemongrass beef noodle soup
3 hr (45 min hands-on) · 6 bowls. Central Vietnam's answer to phở: louder, with lemongrass, shrimp paste and chili oil, and thick round rice noodles.
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