Down The Street and Back Again

http://www.tuoitrenews.vn/cmlink/tuoitrenews/city-diary/fish-sauce-the-vietnamese-ketchup-1.64038 This is my latest article in the Tuoi Tre newspaper here in Vietnam. If the link doesn’t work for you, below is the text: One of the greatest joys of living abroad is constant exposure to food ingredients so different from back home.  Some tantalize our senses and bring pure eating joy to the […]

I got to thinking about the path a Vietnamese guy in America’s food journey would travel.   Would he work his way down the dollar menu at Wendy’s?  Would a stale chicken salad sandwich bought at a gas station complete with the requisite gelatinous mayonnaise both fascinate and repulse him?  As we eat our way through […]