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Cuc Gach Café

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By The Editors


Published on December 24, 2011

The most fascinating place to eat in Ho Chi Minh City right now is Cuc Gach Cafe, the latest high-concept restaurant by the architect Binh Tran. Painstakingly furnished to resemble a stylish, midcentury Vietnamese home and offering home-style dinners—stir-fried bok choy; pork stewed in caramel and pepper sauce—it shores up nostalgia for a not-so-distant past, before war and political repression changed everything. When the staff threads a tape onto the vintage player, the plaintive sound of a 1960s Saigonese singer—music that remains banned under Communist rule—moves even Western visitors.

__Cuc Gach Cafe_
(84/1/101-010; cucgachcafe.com)
79 Phon Ke Binh, Dakao Ward, District 1
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam_

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