“Lizard curry,” Darling Man announces, seemingly apropos of nothing. I snigger. We are in Bookafe in Quy Nhon, a seaside town on Vietnam’s south-central coast. We have been talking.
13 years ago
We settle into the tiny plastic chairs at the only restaurant in Nhon Hai, a picturesque fishing village just outside of Quy Nhon on Vietnam’s central coast. The restaurant.
13 years ago
We found the cutest little Catholic village just outisde Quy Nhon. Saint Francis of Assisi was there, as was a statue of a famous Vietnamese poet* and an assortment.
13 years ago
Vivid purple leaps out at me as I sit in the bus that is taking us home to Ho Chi Minh City from our amazing Mekong Delta wedding. From.
13 years ago
The wedding marquee I’m sitting in stretches over the road. Motorbikes, bicycles and food carts trundle by as wedding guests eat, drink, laugh and take photos of each other..
13 years ago
Pho Binh is a small noodle shop that was a front for one of the resistance cells involved in planning the 1968 Tet Offensive during the Vietnam War (which.
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Bánh bèo is a dish from central Vietnam that’s still enormously popular in the former capital of Hue. Traditionally it’s a small steamed rice cake topped with dried prawn and.
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There’s a middle-aged cross-dressing fortune-teller who does the rounds of Snail Street from time to time. He/she has clownish makeup, chipped red nail polish and wears an enormous silver.
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