THE RICE 131 BUI VIEN HOTEL

The Rice 131 Bui Vien Hotel sits in the middle of Bui Vien Street in Ho Chi Minh City. Its ground-floor restaurant serves breakfast, where guests pick one main dish, one juice and one dessert, along with a seafood menu. Breakfast is cooked to order after the selection, so it takes a while, and the room air conditioning runs cold. Street music stays loud until 3 or 4 a.m. even behind the soundproofing, making sleep difficult.