The foodies restaurant bible "The Michelin Guide" has now produced a guide to Vietnam. This is good news for South East Asia, but many commenters think that 1/ the guide is not extensive enough, and 2/ the food critics were not generous enough.

The MICHELIN Guide Arrives in Vietnam
30 November 2022
Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City join the list of destinations covered by the MICHELIN Guide’s inspectors with the inaugural MICHELIN Guide Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City selection set for public release in June 2023.

Michelin is pleased to announce Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City as the latest destinations joining the international selection of the MICHELIN Guide. For the first time in the Guide's history, the MICHELIN inspectors will evaluate quality restaurants in Vietnam's two largest cities. They will present their first selection of restaurants in June 2023.

“We have been looking at Vietnam’s gastronomic scene for quite a long time and we are delighted to finally announce the MICHELIN Guide’s arrival in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City,” said Gwendal Poullennec, International Director of the MICHELIN Guide. “With a fascinating food heritage and history, distinctive and unique flavours, iconic recipes and well-known delicacies, Vietnamese cuisine has carved its way to popularity around the world. Supported by locals where eating out has always been a true way a life, as well as by talented restaurateurs, Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City are two gourmet gems that deserve to be fully celebrated. We can’t wait to present our first Vietnamese restaurant selection, which our famously anonymous inspectors have already started to realize in the field”.
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It's arrived !
Vietnam Just Got Its First Michelin-Starred Restaurants—Here They Are
Three of them are in Hanoi, while one is located in Ho Chi Minh City.
Published on June 7, 2023
By Tori Latham
The Michelin Guide is expanding its remit once again, this time to Asia.

The little red food bible released its inaugural guide to Vietnam on Tuesday, with four restaurants in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City being awarded one star. The country was boxed out of the more highly coveted two and three stars, however.

“We’re very proud to finally present the first restaurant selection in Vietnam, with a total of 103 restaurants in the Guide, highlighting four restaurants awarded with one MICHELIN Star,” Gwendal Poullennec, the guide’s international director, said in a statement. “The first selection in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City highlights the differences and variety in what these two cities have to offer.”

Just one of the starred establishments is in Ho Chi Minh City: the contemporary Vietnamese restaurant Anăn Saigon. The Michelin Guide praised the chef Peter Cuong’s tuna tartare; roasted duck, mozzarella, and herb mini pizza; and bone-marrow Wagyu beef pho, among other dishes.
The other three one-star restaurants are all in Hanoi: Gia, Hibana by Koki, and Tầm Vị. At Gia, the chef Sam Tran creates a rotating, seasonal contemporary Vietnamese menu, while Tầm Vị is focused on northern Vietnamese dishes like ham with snails and crab soup with Malabar spinach.
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