Quán Bảy Đực – Saigon’s Best BBQ Chicken After 6 years living in Vietnam and after almost a full year of writing about Saigon’s unique street food here at Eating Saigon!, I love that I can still be surprised by an unexpected eating adventure. Last night, when Hai suggested that I should meet him at [Read on …]
Saving man’s best friend from the butchers Thailand is expected to take a step forward to end the trade in dog meat and skin as activists and the public sector push the issue on to the national agenda Published: December 4, 2012 Hundreds of dogs crammed into tiny cages on trucks or boats traveling [Read on …]
Trop. B 306/4 Nguyễn Thị Minh Khai District 3 0918016611 UPDATE – February, 2023: CLOSED AND GONE 🙁 ***** In Vietnam, when there are 11 siblings in the family, your brothers and sisters are often referred to by the sequence in which they arrived in the family. Thus, last night we celebrated the birthday of [Read on …]
HIV infections rise in women of the Mekong By News Desk in Hanoi/Viet Nam News | Asia News Network – 18 hours ago Hanoi (Viet Nam News/ANN) – The number of new HIV infections in Vietnam declined over the past three years. However, several provinces in the north and in the Mekong Delta show an increasing number [Read on …]
Alley Fruit Cocktail Hẻm 177 Lý Tự Trọng Street 0908 407 269 ***** Fruit Cocktail Fruit Cocktail – the very term makes me grimace. Images from my youth in New Jersey of canned Delmonte geometric cubes and spheres inside a metal can, masquerading as actual edible fruit items come to mind – and they’re not [Read on …]
Pop star censured for kissing monks Published: 14/11/2012 HANOI – Vietnam’s Ministry of Culture has told Ho Chi Minh City authorities to punish a male pop singer for kissing two monks at a charity auction this month, a government official said Wednesday. “Kissing a Buddhist monk on his lips is indecent,” said Vuong Duy Bien, [Read on …]
“Rice of help” for those in need Tuoi Tre October 23, 2012 A restaurant sells lunch for loss, in the center of Ho Chi Minh City. A day’s menu includes rice, chicken with a ginger sauce, fried vegetables with meat, vegetable soup with ground meat, a piece of papaya for dessert, free drinking [Read on …]
ESCAPE FROM VIETNAM … for a month of wonderful travel Ten o’clock Monday morning, creating loud clickity-clack noises as our luggage rolled over the cobblestone streets of Trastevere, Rome, Hai and I had already finished our cappuccinos and cream-filled croissants at the local cafe. We also had just purchased 2 kilos of souvenir Romano and [Read on …]