Ho Chi Minh City — Where We Ate & Drank

One January in Saigon fed us better than most months anywhere else. Pizza 4P's earned its cult status, Madame Lam did the home-style Vietnamese we still measure others against, and the rooftop-and-speakeasy bar crawl—Summer Experiment, Symposium—ran late every single night. The War Remnants Museum is the essential, sobering counterweight.

We visited 22 restaurants, 16 bars, and a handful of cafes and sights across the city. Every spot on this guide is somewhere we actually went, from Noir's dining-in-the-dark tasting menu to Avatar Karaoke at 2 a.m.