A clean-sour pot from giấm bỗng

Lau Dam Bong is a Northern sour-hotpot specialist on 7G Nguyen Thi Minh Khai, District 1 — its broth gets its clean, sharp sourness from giấm bỗng, fermented rice vinegar. Dinner only, Monday to Saturday.

Lau Dam Bong, 7G Nguyen Thi Minh Khai, District 1

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Highlights

The sour is the story

Everything at Lau Dam Bong starts from one ingredient: giấm bỗng — the fermented rice-vinegar lees that have soured Northern Vietnamese cooking for generations.

Giấm bỗng, not limeThe sour comes from fermented rice lees — clean rather than sharp, deep rather than harsh: the sourness Northerners recognize at once.

The Northern sour potThe giấm bỗng broth is the soul of the pot — sour enough to dip, to sip, to remember.

Dinner onlyOpen 17:00–22:00, Monday to Saturday — a hotpot reserved for the evening.

An evening here

One evening, one sour pot

Nothing fussy. The giấm bỗng broth comes to a boil, the table dips and sips together — the clean sourness lightens everything.

The broth boilsThe giấm bỗng pot rolls to a boil and the clean sour aroma fills the table — dinner has begun.

Dip and sipCook your food in the sour broth, then sip a hot spoonful — clean sour, warming through.

Finish on the sourThe evening closes the way it opened: a clean-sour broth, never heavy.

Lau Dam Bong — the giấm bỗng pot — The giấm bỗng pot

Lau Dam Bong — the dining room — The dining room

Lau Dam Bong — an evening table — An evening table

Photos: Lẩu Dấm Bỗng / Google Maps · 10/2026

Story

The story of the giấm bỗng pot

Three glimpses: the ingredient, the pot, and Nguyen Thi Minh Khai street.

Lau Dam Bong — giấm bỗng, the ingredient behind the sourness

Entry The ingredient

What giấm bỗng is

Giấm bỗng is vinegar fermented from rice-wine lees — the clean-sour seasoning at the heart of Northern cooking, from sour soups to the hotpot.

Lau Dam Bong — the sour pot, made for dipping

Entry The pot

Sour, made for dipping

Giấm bỗng's sourness never overpowers the food — it lifts it, so every dip tastes fresh.

Entry 7G Nguyen Thi Minh Khai

A District 1 address

On Nguyen Thi Minh Khai street, District 1 — open every evening Monday to Saturday, 17:00 to 22:00.

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Evenings

A hotpot reserved for the evening

Lau Dam Bong opens 17:00–22:00, Monday to Saturday — when the street lights come on, the giấm bỗng pot starts to boil.

Address

7G Nguyen Thi Minh Khai

Mon–Sat · 17:00–22:00

hours as published by the restaurant

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