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Xu Restaurant

71-75 Hai Ba Trung St.

Ho Chi Minh City , Vietnam http://www.xusaigon.com/

84 8 3824-8468

Run by Bien Nguyen, a 30-year-old Australian Viet Kieu, this high-priced upstart is both a see-and-be-seen nightspot (serving well-made cocktails at the street-level bar) and a high-end restaurant with ambitious, mostly assured nouvelle Vietnamese cooking. The menu changes regularly, but you can’t miss with any dish made with local fish or seafood.