Eating Vịêt Nam : dispatches from a blue plastic table / Graham Holliday
Imprint
New York, NY : Ecco, [2015]
Edition
First edition
Descript
xii, 337 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
SUMMARY
"Graham didn't want to be just a tourist in a foreign country ... he was determined to try to live in it. An ordinary guy who liked trying interesting food, he moved to the capital city and embarked on a quest to find real Vietnamese food."--Book jacket, page 2
CONTENT
Hâa Nãòoi -- Bâun chàa -- In search of a monster -- Beyond Trâang Tiãáen Street -- Food safari -- Vina-land -- Moving out -- Tãâet -- Taking the Vina-pulse -- Nothing worked -- Poisoned -- Never mind the bollocks -- The ten commandments of street food -- I never remember you -- It's shit in the south -- Hoáa Hฝng Street, District 10, Sáai Gáon -- Paperback writer -- Sáai Gáon -- Enter Hàem Hoáa Hฝng Market -- Noodlepie -- The tape -- "Vietnamese food is nothing without herbs" -- No magic ingredients -- Bâanh mái -- It's the Chinese -- What a very civil civil war -- All Vietnamese love Bâahn Cuãâon -- Báa sâau bâun mæâam -- A northern soup in a southern city -- My shift is up -- Apocalypse now