TastyChomps TRIVIA – Vietnam Scenes – What is this red fruit?
While in Phan Thiet, in south Vietnam, we came across miles and miles of these fruit trees. The fruit were picked and laid out in buckets in front… Read More »
Vietnam – Summer 2011 – Street Scenes from Sa Dec, Vietnam
Sa Dec is a city in the province of Dong Thap, about 2 and a half hours away from Saigon. It’s my dad’s hometown and I still have… Read More »
Vietnam – Summer 2011 – Street food in Sa déc, Vietnam
River in Sa déc, Vietnam – This is the river my father swam in as a child during the hot summer months. My grandfather would always give him a… Read More »
Vietnam – Summer 2011 – Banh Mi Bread man
This man sells banh mi (french baguette style bread) early in the mornings in Sa Dec, Vietnam. He sells them for 5000 dong for 3 loaves, or roughly… Read More »
Vietnam – Summer 2011 – Travelling to Kinh Nuoc Man and Binh Dai, Vietnam
In Vietnam, I spent several days trekking out to the rice field laden countryside to visit the ancestral homes (que huong) of my grandparents: the rural villages of… Read More »
Vietnam – Summer 2011 – Prosperity and Poverty
No doubt in these past ten years, Vietnam has enjoyed unprecedented levels of prosperity as their government has moved towards a market economy, while maintaining communist party rule…. Read More »
Vietnamese Street food – Banh Bot Chien
Banh Bot Chien is actually a food with Chinese roots (Chiuchow or Trieu Chau). It literally means fried powder cake, a rice flour cake that is fried with… Read More »
