Vietnam Cheap Eats: Fill Your Stomach (Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner), Your Senses, and Your Camera — All for $5 Total Cost

The meals are interchangeable between breakfast, lunch, and dinner. These are usually small places (10 to 15 chairs) specializing in one or two dishes. Often no menu is provided. Expect low tables, plastic chairs, and elbow to elbow eating. If it’s busy (a good sign), have patience, they’ll find room for you. Only the Nem Nuong restaurants tend to be larger in size.