Ho Chi Minh City eats outdoors, all day, on tiny plastic stools. Food here is cheap, fast and seriously good, and much of the best of it never makes it onto a printed menu. These are the dishes we tell every first-time visitor to try, roughly in the order you will bump into them over a day. Breakfast 1. Cơm tấm. Broken rice with a grilled pork chop, often topped with shredded pork skin, a slice of steamed egg meatloaf and a fried egg, all dressed with sweet fish sauce. It is

Vietnam is long and narrow: well over 1,500 km from Hanoi in the north to Ho Chi Minh City in the south. How you move between places shapes your whole trip, from how much you see to how tired you feel. Here is an honest look at the four main ways to get around, and when each one makes sense. Domestic flights: for the long jumps Vietnam Airlines, Vietjet and Bamboo Airways connect the big cities many times a day. Hanoi to Saigon is about two hours in the air versus a day and a