Headed to Saigon, a.k.a. Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam? You’re a lucky bird. Here are five cheap and cheerful food spots you won’t want to miss:

(1) The Bánh Mi Hong Hoa shophouse (62 Nguyen Van Trang), pictured above, where the baguettes are baked fresh onsite and motorcyclists patiently cue for crispy, crackly roast pork sandwiches…

(2) Bot Chien Dat Thanh (277 Vo Van Tan St.), for its titular dish of rice flour cakes fried with green onion and eggs…

(3) A marathon feast at Com Nieu Sai Gon (19 Tu Xuong), where traditional clay pots filled with baked rice are ceremoniously smashed before being served…

(4) Banh Khot Co Ba Vung Tau (102 Cao Thang), for banh khot, silver-dollar–sized rice flour pancakes topped with shrimp or pork and wrapped, D.I.Y.-style, in fresh perilla and mustard leaves before being dunked in fish sauce…

And last but not least, (5) concrete-thick smoothies from Juicy smoothie bar (18A Nguyen Thi Minh Khai), because lord is it face-meltingly hot in HCMC.