A Vietnam Podcast: Stories of Vietnam

About A Vietnam Podcast: Stories of Vietnam

I’m your host, Niall Mackay. Each week I share my personal stories, my wife and I's and with guests connected to Vietnam — entrepreneurs, artists, locals, Viet Kieu, expats, and voices from across the community, including the LGBTQ+ world. Discover Vietnam: A Vietnam Podcast takes you inside the stories shaping life in one of the world’s most dynamic countries. The conversations are honest and unscripted. Sometimes funny, sometimes challenging — always real. Together, we discover what it means to live, work, and thrive in modern Vietnam. If you’re curious about Vietnam beyond the headlines and guidebooks, this podcast offers the insights and perspectives you won’t hear anywhere else.

Publisher

Niall Mackay | Seven Million Bikes Podcasts

Category

society & culture · society & culture · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

20 May 2019

Latest episode

8 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

457 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   8 Oct 2026

   I’ve Been Walking Past This Saigon Lunch for Years | Lunch Walks #10

   “Every day I’m walking around this neighbourhood, I’m learning something new.” What started as a hunt for lunch turned into another deep dive into one of my favourite parts of Saigon. In this episode of Lunch Walks, I head back to Tôn Thất Đạm, the Old Market street, looking for lunch and end up with a 40,000 VND bowl of bún thịt xào, while uncovering even more of the history hidden in the streets around Saigon Podcast Studio. Along the way, I stop at a distinctive 1973 South Vietnamese moder...

2. 

   1 Oct 2026

   I Came for Cơm Tấm. I Ended Up Eating This Instead | Lunch Walk #9

   “This is why I’m just loving these Lunch Walks. I’m getting obsessed with them now. I’m finding out so much amazing information about this neighborhood.” What started as a simple lunch walk has turned into something much bigger. In this episode, I leave Saigon Podcast Studio and head to one of my regular lunch spots in the Nguyễn Thái Bình neighborhood, a place I’ve probably eaten at around 50 times since opening the studio. The original plan was cơm tấm, but as usual in Vietnam, things don’t...

3. 

   24 Sept 2026

   This Saigon Family Has Been Serving Duck Since 1938 | Lunch Walks #8

   “They’ve been doing it since 1938. It better be good.” This Lunch Walk starts as a food mission and ends up sending me even further down the rabbit hole of my own neighbourhood. I’m joined by my friend James Green, who lives nearby, as we walk through the streets around Saigon Podcast Studio in search of bánh mì vịt quay, or roast duck bánh mì. But before we even get to lunch, we uncover a few stories hiding in plain sight. We talk about how Pasteur Street was once a canal, discover that one ...

Who has been a guest on A Vietnam Podcast: Stories of Vietnam

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Hugo Bosch
• Hanh
• Hao Tran
• Davon Dillard
• Phuong Anh

Reach and audience

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YouTube views

808,788

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.5 / 5

15 ratings

Spotify

4.1 / 5

9 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 79 / 100

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Quality

87

Social presence

0

YouTube

86

Engagement

90

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