Lottery sellers are everywhere in Vietnam, wandering the streets trying to offload “lucky tickets” in exchange for a few cents of profit. Most ticket sellers aren’t able to work.
12 years ago
Your mission, should you choose to accept it, involves training two very handsome French foodies and one almost-four-year-old in the fine arts of Vietnamese cooking. You may select a.
12 years ago
Sitting at my desk, bashing away at my laptop on a smoggy Wednesday morning with a mountain of soggy tissues on one side of my desk, I decide to.
12 years ago
Pottering around the brilliantly-named Chess Board Market in Ho Chi Minh City, I discovered a new dish, bun nouc leo (bún nước lèo). Not knowing what lèo meant, my brain.
12 years ago
Bun cha Hanoi (bún chả Hà Nội) is, if it’s not immediately obvious, a specialty from Vietnam’s capital, Hanoi. Luckily for me, bun cha is available all over Vietnam,.
12 years ago
Dad died two years ago today. He died mid-sentence, sitting with a bunch of Rotarians in the Solomon Islands at the end of the first day of their charity.
13 years ago
Preparations are underway for an old friend to visit us in Ho Chi Minh City. And the preparations are taking the form of planning what we’re going to do.
13 years ago
Vietnam is a great country to visit with kids, even though it can appear quite daunting at first. Don’t be daunted — just do it! There are many many.
13 years ago