Places DGREG1984 Wants to Go

Don’t miss the local staple of rice vermicelli with charcoal-grilled pork patties and pork belly.

Walk through a clothing store, across a courtyard, and up several flights of stairs for delicious coffee with a side of beautiful views.

This time-honored eatery near Hoàn Kiếm Lake serves the classic pairing of rice vermicelli soup and savory sticky rice.

Home of the unusual art of water puppetry, one of Vietnam's oldest curiosities.

For true northern-style phở with broth as clear as consommé, hunt for this restaurant hidden within a residential home.

The spot where the two men ate together now stands enclosed in glass.

Order your phở stir-fried, sans soup.

Life-sized painted illusions let pedestrians blend in with the street art.

This steamed rice crepe specialist has been rolling up its namesake dish for over 30 years.

A desert in southeast Asia, complete with a beautiful lake covered in lotus flowers.

This bridge is embedded with a giant steel dragon that breathes fire from its mouth.

This spectacular bridge supported by two gigantic hands looks like something out of a fantasy universe.

This antique shop offers affordable 15th-century Vietnamese ceramics salvaged from a local shipwreck.

Located off a bustling strip, a silent teahouse employs workers with hearing- or speech-related disabilities.

This Vietnamese bar doubles as a multistory labyrinth.

A mystical-meets-modern mix of centuries-old divination decks and Pokémon cards ready to predict your destiny.

A nightmare for the claustrophobic lies hidden in Southeast Asia.

For a taste of Vietnamese gastropub culture, look no further than this convivial seafood joint that stays open till midnight.

Vietnam’s everyman “broken rice” dish is given one major upgrade at this humble institution.

This crab paste noodle soup specialist has been doling out its namesake dish for more than four decades.

This French colonial post office is arguably the grandest in all of Southeast Asia.

Meant to be a lavish presidential home, the palace became a symbol of the fall of South Vietnam.

Artifacts and memories from the Vietnam war, located in a place that experienced it first hand.

Nearly three tons of weapons from the Vietnam War still remain in this small, hidden museum.