Anyone care to join me for a Hamburger or Pho? … 🙂
I thought you might enjoy a few memories of Cheap Charlie’s from 1958.
66 Hai Ba Trung (Paul Blanchy)
Bob
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Saigon Landmarks: Cheap Charlie’s – 1958Anyone care to join me for a Hamburger or Pho? … 🙂 I thought you might enjoy a few memories of Cheap Charlie’s from 1958. 66 Hai Ba Trung (Paul Blanchy) Bob 11 comments to Saigon Landmarks: Cheap Charlie’s – 1958Leave a Reply to Sally Trued, Mike Trued Cancel reply |
I always enjoyed the corn and crab soup.
I ate here a bunch of times…. I always had their “spring rolls”.
I was only 9 or 10 but my family used to go here—I remember the shrimp toast.
I lived on Nguyen Hue just a few blocks from Cheap Charlie’s in 1966. The bouillabaisse was the best I had ever had. They hadn’t forgotten their origins of French cuisine.
corn and crab soup
giant gin and tonic
the memories come roaring back
My family ate there in the late fifties, loved the fried fish.
There was a small PX located between Cheap Charlies and the Caravelle Hotel, where my mom used to work. The sailor that owned that beautiful 1954 Harley Davidson that Brooks and I were seated on worked there as well. Anyway, CC’s was a nice place to eat lunch or dinner depending on her working hours. Actually there were several really good restaurants downtown, the names of which I can no longer remember.
didn’t they have a fluffy whipped baked potato? I was there with my dad in ’73. i have chop sticks from Cheap Charlies! lol
To all: I’m not sure but the Vietnamese or Chinese name for Cheap Charlie’s was Chung Nam. I remember having stuffed crab claws with a sweet sauce there for the first time in 1964. And needless to say that the price of the meal was “Cheap”
I lived in Saigon form 1966 to 1975 and ate at Cheap Charlies countless times. My favorites were the Frog Legs and the Pigeon dishes.
Why or how did the restaurant get the name “Cheap Charlie’s? and was Cheong Nam the real name of the restaurant? I liked to go to Cheap Charlie’s in 1966-67. One of my favorite dishes was the sweet sour pork. I also liked the corn soup.