Each Sunday in Bac Ha in mountainous Sapa, Vietnam, subsistence farmers from the surrounding hills descend on the normally sleepy market to watch tourists perform feats of amateur ethnography and find new ways to trivialise their culture. Local hilltribes get into their Sunday best to hit the market mostly for
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Nov 07, 2007 | Post by: Phil Lees 11 Comments
Let’s consume ethnicity!
Oct 14, 2007 | Post by: Phil Lees 3 Comments
Dalat Market (Chợ Đà Lạt)
Vietnam‘s hill resort of Dalat is a horticultural wonderland. The cool tropical microclimate endows its market with the best of both worlds: tropical fruits from the lower hillsides combined with more European fare from the cooler climes. Fresh strawberries sit alongside avocadoes, artichokes, beetroot and dragonfruit; with vendors keen to
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Oct 07, 2007 | Post by: Phil Lees 8 Comments
What Fruit is That?
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 25, 2007 | Post by: Phil Lees 4 Comments
Noryangjin Fish Market, Seoul
Whenever people describe fish markets, they highlight the predawn chaos and the movement and flow of fish as the only ordered element amongst the pandemonium. I’ve been guilty of it myself. At three o’clock in the afternoon, Noryangjin Fish Market in Seoul is a bastion of calm. The morning crowds
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