“If you’re going traveling, you’re going to have bad hair,” Alice told me. “You have to prepare yourself for that now.” Alice is slender and elegant. She is so.
15 years ago
Usually translated as “steamed rice paper rolls”, the English name does not do this slippery slurpy tasty treat justice. The classic banh cuon is a small snack-sized serving of.
15 years ago
Con Dao Island, Vietnam. Street stalls stacked high with dried goods. Packed in plastic, tied with string, secured in plastic jars. The dried wares are alien to me, familiar.
15 years ago
Pronounced with a falling or down tone, the Vietnamese chè is the name of a range of desserts that appear quite daunting at first. Not to be mistaken for.
15 years ago
After all the effort of booking flights and hotels, acquiring visas and catching a taxi at 6am to get to the wedding, I missed the main event. And probably.
15 years ago
I had two bittersweet Christmases in Ho Chi Minh City. Bitter because I was so far from my family, sweet because I was in an amazing and exotic city.
15 years ago
Darling Man is Buddhist and a minimalist. Trying to make him understand the mish-mash of Christmas traditions is difficult. So when I announced I was buying the baby three.
15 years ago
She only needs a pair of oversized sunglasses to complete the picture. She’s got everything else – big hair, an entourage, drivers and hordes of adoring fans. Like the best rock.
16 years ago