Vietnam is one of the few places on earth that you can eat a sandwich whose prime ingredient is roasted pork skin and feel virtuous for doing so. Banh mi bi must rate as one of the world’s perfect sandwiches: crispy pork skin with a luscious hint of creamy fat,
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Oct 12, 2007 | Post by: Phil Lees 4 Comments
The pleasure of pork skin: Banh Mi Bi
Oct 07, 2007 | Post by: Phil Lees 8 Comments
What Fruit is That?
Oct 05, 2007 | Post by: Phil Lees 2 Comments
I ♥ wet season
Oct 01, 2007 | Post by: Phil Lees 6 Comments
The Street Sausage of Saigon: Thit Nuong
It helps to be obsessed by a single dish when you arrive in Saigon. I usually hit up a few of my favourite restaurants (the upmarket street food specialist Quan An Ngon, commercial pho franchise Pho 24 anywhere about town) and then am lost in a sea of choice. There’s
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Sep 13, 2007 | Post by: Phil Lees 12 Comments
How to get from Kep to Phu Quoc in a day
After doing the most scant research on the Internet, it seems that although many people mention that the new border crossing between Prek Chak in Cambodia and Xa Xia/Ha Tien in Vietnam is open to foreigners, nobody tells you how to get from Kep to Phu Quoc in a day
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