{"id":389,"date":"2026-07-04T13:30:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T06:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saigondaily.com\/index.php\/com-tam-saigon\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T13:30:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T06:30:13","slug":"com-tam-saigon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saigondaily.com\/index.php\/com-tam-saigon\/","title":{"rendered":"C\u01a1m T\u1ea5m in Saigon: The Broken Rice Dish You’ll Eat Every Day"},"content":{"rendered":"
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If you ask a Saigonese person what the most essential local dish is \u2014 the one that most defines eating in this city, the one that no other city in Vietnam does quite like this \u2014 many will say c\u01a1m t\u1ea5m. Not ph\u1edf, not b\u00e1nh m\u00ec. C\u01a1m t\u1ea5m.<\/p>\n

“T\u1ea5m” means broken \u2014 the small, irregular rice grains that fall through the grading sieve during milling and were traditionally considered inferior. Saigon cooks took these discarded grains and built a dish around them that’s now eaten at every meal, at every price point, in every district of the city.<\/p>\n

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