Eat breakfast at Miến lươn Bà Phấn, before ten
Open at 4am, done by ten
A half-century-old eel vermicelli shop on Trần Hưng Đạo that opens at 4am and is finished by about ten, working through roughly 30 kg of eel and 200 to 300 bowls a day. The stock is the tell: eel bones go in through service, then are pulled, ground and strained back in.