Bo La Lot - Grilled Beef in Piper Lolot Leaves in Saigon

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Rating: 4.0; Vote: 1

Read more about bo la lot: Instagram: Free food and travel updates: One of my favorite Vietnamese foods is something called bo la lot (or more formally tht b nng l lt. The basic recipe includes minced beef mixed with just a few small spices, sometimes some citrus, then wrapped into wild betel leaves (piper lolot) leaves (which are slightly different from normal betel leaves, piper betle, then grilled over hot charcoal. Bo la lot is then served with Vietnamese rice paper, a selection of herbs and raw vegetables, sauce, and chilies. Everything is wrapped together and consumed. Its truly one of my favorite things to eat in Vietnam. On my trip to Saigon, I was searching online and happened to come across C Lin B L Lt on Foursquare. Since the restaurant was just down the road from where I was staying, I could not miss eating there. Another great thing about this bo la lot restaurant is that they are open for lunch, while many of the street food restaurants that serve bo la lot are only open in th evening for dinner. As we entered the restaurant, I could actually smell the aroma of the grilled leaves, and the owner kindly greeted us as we entered. Youll recognize C Lin B L Lt by its huge green sign and the inside is also painted green - is this a tribute to the wild betel piper lolot leaves? I loved it. The menu was simple and straightforward, even though I only know the names of a few Vietnamese dishes. My wife and I ordered one plate of bo la lot, a plate of bo mo chai, and finally cha gio, deep fried Vietnamese spring rolls. When we ordered the bo la lot and the mo chai, they were tossed on the grill and cooked for a few more minutes before being delivered to our table in aromatic glory. I could smell the beef and the fragrant herbs, and I couldnt wait to dig in. The bo la lot was served on a plate, topped with a few scoops of crushed peanuts, and a drizzle of fragrant scallion oil and green onions. One of the easiest ways to eat Vietnamese bo la lot is to first take a piece of rice paper, then add on a few green leafy vegetables like lettuce, then pile on the bun (rice vermicelli noodles, more herbs like Vietnamese coriander and sweet basil, and then add in a bo la lot, and then finally dress with sauce and chilies. The combination of the ingredients, and the salty and sweet beef sausage with the herbaceous green tasting wild betel leaves, was outstanding. The mo chai, which are like sausage shaped hamburgers, were also very good. They tasted very similar to the bo la lot meat inside, but without the outer leaf wrapper. So overall, I preferred the bo la lot, but both were delicious. C Lin B L Lt restaurant is more expensive than eating bo la lot on the street in Saigon, but the bo la lot was pretty good size (bigger than versions I ate on the street, and I think the meat was better quality. For delicious bo la lot in Saigon, Vietnam, check out C Lin B L Lt. Address: 321 V Vn Tn, District 3, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (the restaurant is just a few steps from the southeastern corner of Vo Van Tan and Nguyen Thuong Hien) Open hours: 10 am 9: 30 pm daily Price: Our full meal cost 132, 000 VND (6. 09, and the owner gave us some free samples of different dishes as well Read the full review here: Saigon food map
Date: 2019-08-19

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Comments and reviews: 10

Thao CA
I found your food videos about 4 hours ago. I've enjoyed them very much. As a vietnamese foodie from the north, I learned so much about Sai gon food from you. I did The lunch lady in my last visit to Sai Gon about 6 months ago. I'll try the other places you recommend on my next trip. I also like the way you wave your head around when you have a good bite. That's funny ha ha. Thank you for the fun Keep it up
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Pete Watson
Love your enthusiasm. I don't care how your head moves when you eat. Great vids. My wife and I are retired in Mexico but are very interested in Vietnam, also. Thinking of spending a month wandering the country to see if we would like to stay, long term. What you do helps with our choices. The food in this country looks wonderful. Keep it up and thanks.
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Olivia Nguyen
everyone complaining about the rice paper. The rice paper he uses, and that's used in a lot of restaurants or food stalls in viet nam is thin enough that you don't need to wet it, it's a special type of rice paper. Yes a lot of rice paper you do have to wet, but not this. Even Helen's recipes talks about this in one of her videos.
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Someone N
I swear. It is very good. Any kind of rolls are good with special fish sauce, vegs, all kind of meat. We eat things like this almost every week. We put so many kind of herbs in the rolls. uhmmm yummmy. Bo la lot is so so good. If you live in the U. S, u can find some restaurants have it like in California, houston, Dalas texas.
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ngoc vu
dude, I really enjoy watching your video about food stuffs all around Saigon. Remind me of my favorite while living in Vietnam. But why you don't make a trip to Hanoi and try there as well? there are some similarities but also some significant differences in taste. Worth to try. Anyways it was awesome. Keep up man (:
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Son Nguyen Hoang
Oh my stomachIt looks so delicious. I am VietNamese but I have never eaten Bo La Lot because I live in Ha Noi. I dont know if there is Bo La Lot restaurant in Ha Noi or not. But Ha Noi have Cha La Lot (made of pork and Lot leaf. I think they are similarThank you for sharing your experience: )
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V Phan
Mark, the way you talked about star fruit in bo la lot and when you identified taro in the fried spring rolls, it tells me that your understanding of Vietnamese food is pretty deep and frankly impressive. It's good to watch reviews from people who know what they are talking about. Good job, man.
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Phuong Tran
You really like spicy food: D. Haha, I like it that you add a lot of chilly all the times because I also do exactly the same thing: D. It feels like you have become Vietnamese: . I also love the way you eat (you roll and wrap everything correctly), really like a local
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Kim Berly
Your pronunciation on nem nuong is actually spot on. I thought for a second a Vietnamese person was speaking and not you. (in the beginning. not quite when you were in the middle of eating it. haha I think the food got you all distracted)
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Ruby Ruby
I love to watch the food from around the world But the way u eat, makes me sick. I'd rather watch your wife. i think her reactions to eating the food would be ATLEAST real. You lean and shake too much. It's really annoying. Plz stop
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