Most guides to healthy food in Saigon are really lists of meal-prep subscriptions. That’s useful if you want a week of boxes delivered, and no use at all if you’re hungry now and want somewhere to sit down. This one covers both, and says which is which.
Nine places, all checked as trading in September 2026: five to eat in, two to shop at, and two that deliver a week at a time. Five of them give Saigon Scene members 10% off.
| Place | Area | What it is | Member deal |
|---|---|---|---|
| Green Box | Thao Dien | Salads and bowls, eat in | 10% off |
| Rau Oi | District 1 | Plant-based Vietnamese | 10% off |
| Afrocado | District 1 | Avocado desserts, vegan | 10% off |
| Poke Saigon | Thao Dien | Build-your-own poke | – |
| Soumaki | District 1 | Custom bowls, macros listed | – |
| iVegan Supershop | Thao Dien | Vegan grocery | 10% off |
| Ola Granola | District 2 | Granola, made here | 10% off |
| Fitfood VN | District 3 | Weekly meal plans | – |
| Benstyle Food | District 1 | Macro-built meal plans | – |
Where to eat
1. Green Box
6 Le Van Mien, Thao Dien, Thu Duc
Open since 2019 and the most reliable healthy lunch in Thao Dien. Ingredients are sourced locally, the menu covers salads, smoothies and warm bowls, and it handles most dietary requirements without making a performance of it.
It is a proper sit-down room rather than a takeaway counter, which is why it works for a working lunch.
Order: a warm bowl rather than a cold salad — they do them better.
2. Rau Oi
55/15 Le Thi Hong Gam, Nguyen Thai Binh Ward, District 1
A small plant-based kitchen down an alley in District 1, cooking Vietnamese food that happens to be vegetarian rather than vegetarian food that apologises for itself. The test is whether meat eaters finish their plates, and here they do.
Best value on this list if you’re eating in the centre of town.
Order: whatever the daily set is.
3. Afrocado
31 Dinh Tien Hoang, Da Kao, District 1
Built around Vietnamese avocado, which is one of the genuinely great local ingredients and is usually wasted on smoothies with condensed milk. Afrocado makes gelato-based desserts from it instead — vegan-friendly, and the rare healthy-ish pudding that is worth ordering on its own merits.
Order: the avocado gelato.
4. Poke Saigon
39A Nguyen Duy Hieu, Thao Dien, Thu Duc
Saigon’s first poke restaurant and still the one to beat. Counter service, you watch the bowl get built, and there are over twenty toppings — spicy salmon, octopus with wasabi mayo, avocado, fish roe. Two poke types with unlimited toppings runs about 190,000₫, and portions are not mean.
Order: spicy salmon base, and don’t be shy at the toppings.
5. Soumaki
42 Ly Tu Trong, District 1
Build your own bowl: pick a base, a protein, vegetables and sauce. Sous vide top blade beef, Norwegian salmon, cold soba, brown rice donburi. What sets it apart is that the nutritional information is published, so if you’re actually counting rather than gesturing at healthy eating, this is where to go.
Order: brown rice donburi with salmon.
Shop the pantry
6. iVegan Supershop
123 Quoc Huong, Thao Dien, Thu Duc
A vegan grocery rather than a restaurant — the place to solve the problem properly if you cook at home and keep hitting the same wall in supermarkets. Plant-based staples, substitutes and snacks under one roof.
7. Ola Granola
District 2
Made in Saigon by Mia, who started by experimenting with fruit and nut combinations and ended up with a granola that is genuinely different from the imported boxes — more nut, less sugar, and no filler.
Meals delivered
8. Fitfood VN
475 Dien Bien Phu, District 3
The largest healthy meal-plan provider in the city. Weekly plans, delivered, no MSG and low sugar, with the menu rotating on a roughly sixty-day cycle so you don’t eat the same four dishes forever — which is the usual reason people quit these services in month two.
9. Benstyle Food
296 Co Bac, Co Giang Ward, District 1
Founded by a professional bodybuilder and a certified nutritionist, and built for people training to a number rather than eating healthily in general. Meals are made fresh daily and portioned to macros.
Is healthy food in Saigon expensive?
Relative to street food, yes. A bowl at Poke Saigon or Soumaki lands around 150,000–200,000₫, against 40,000₫ for a com tam. Meal plans work out cheaper per meal — usually 90,000–140,000₫ a serving depending on how many days you buy — which is why people training seriously use them.
The cheapest genuinely healthy option in the city is still a Vietnamese one: a plate of rice, greens and grilled protein from a com binh dan, or the daily set at Rau Oi. Prices checked September 2026.
Where to go for what
- Working lunch in Thao Dien: Green Box.
- Cheap, central and plant-based: Rau Oi.
- Counting macros: Soumaki, or Benstyle if you want it delivered.
- Post-gym: Poke Saigon.
- Cooking at home: iVegan Supershop.
- A week off cooking entirely: Fitfood VN.
- Dessert that isn’t a write-off: Afrocado.
How we picked these
Saigon Scene is based in Ho Chi Minh City. Every place here was checked as trading in September 2026 and addresses were verified rather than carried over from an older list. Several venues that appear on other healthy-eating round-ups have been left off because we could not confirm they are still operating — a closed restaurant is not a recommendation.
Saigon Scene partner venues are listed first within each section, and we say which ones they are. A place only makes the list if the food earns it.
Frequently asked questions
Where is the best healthy food in Saigon?
Green Box at 6 Le Van Mien in Thao Dien is the most reliable sit-down healthy lunch in the city, open since 2019. In District 1, Rau Oi on Le Thi Hong Gam does plant-based Vietnamese food that meat eaters finish, and Soumaki on Ly Tu Trong publishes nutritional information on every bowl.
Is healthy food in Saigon expensive?
Compared with street food, yes. A bowl at Poke Saigon or Soumaki is around 150,000-200,000 VND against about 40,000 VND for com tam. Meal plans work out cheaper per serving, roughly 90,000-140,000 VND. The cheapest genuinely healthy meal in the city is still Vietnamese - rice, greens and grilled protein from a com binh dan.
Where can I find vegan food in Saigon?
Rau Oi in District 1 for plant-based Vietnamese cooking, Afrocado in Da Kao for vegan avocado gelato, and iVegan Supershop at 123 Quoc Huong in Thao Dien if you want to cook at home. All three give Saigon Scene members 10% off.
What are the best healthy meal delivery services in Saigon?
Fitfood VN, at 475 Dien Bien Phu in District 3, is the largest - weekly plans, no MSG, low sugar, with the menu rotating on a roughly sixty-day cycle. Benstyle Food at 296 Co Bac in District 1 was founded by a professional bodybuilder and a certified nutritionist and portions meals to macros.
Where can I get a poke bowl in Saigon?
Poke Saigon at 39A Nguyen Duy Hieu in Thao Dien was the city's first poke restaurant and is still the best. Build your own from more than twenty toppings; two poke types with unlimited toppings runs about 190,000 VND.
Which healthy food spots in Saigon give a discount?
Five on this list give Saigon Scene members 10% off: Green Box, Rau Oi, Afrocado, iVegan Supershop and Ola Granola. The discount is shown in the app when you pay.
