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Monthly Archives: January 2010
Chicken rice @ Maxwell’s
A six-hour layover in Singapore, the airport so near the city, we decide to go into town for dinner and head to Maxwell’s hawker center in Chinatown. The place is the size of a large gymnasium, open on all sides … Continue reading
What are we drinking in Vietnam?
Forget about wine. There is no wine here. Most people haven’t even heard of wine and wouldn’t know how to serve it if they did. Not that I hold it against them, they have other priorities. It used to be … Continue reading
Posted in Asia, TASTE TRAVEL, Vietnam, What is in my glass?, WINE
Tagged 333, Fosters, Heineken, Saigon, Tiger, Vietnam, WINE
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fresh spring rolls @ Ben Than Market
She makes it in front of my eyes within seconds. It looks so easy. Rice paper, noodles, shrimp, and a tiny slice of chicken. Roll, tuck et voila. Some herb that I have never seen sticks out of one end. … Continue reading
Posted in Asia, FOOD, TASTE TRAVEL, Vietnam
Tagged Ben Than Market, chicken, noodles, Saigon, sauce, shrimp, spring roll, Vietnam
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Big Ben Than Market Saigon
It’s a mistake to walk into Ben Than Market through the front. You’d never think there was anything BUT aisles and aisles of t-shirts and counterfeit bags of all big brand names you can imagine. Engulfed in sea of textile … Continue reading
Posted in Asia, FOOD, TASTE TRAVEL, Vietnam
Tagged bean curd, beans, Ben Than Market, bulots, butcher, cockles, conches, Fish, ice, leaves, offal, pork, razor clam, rice, Saigon, saltpepperlime sauce, shellfish, shrimp, spice, spl, vegetables, Vietnam
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that little market in Saigon
Its time for breakfast. And we are in the streets of Saigon with a mission: find the little street market we’d liked so much the last time we visited Saigon a couple of years ago. Even with a good sense … Continue reading
truck stop lunch in Phan Thiet
Just booking the car is an adventure. How long does it take to drive from Saigon to Nha Trang? Everyone we speak to has a different answer. “The roads are good, you can drive fast. 4hrs.” “The roads are only … Continue reading
Posted in Asia, FOOD, TASTE TRAVEL, Vietnam
Tagged beef, cuttlefish, garlic, herbs, leaves, Mui Ne, Nha Trang, pepper, Phan Thiet, pork, rice, spice, truck stop, Vietnam
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Vinh’s nem
One night in Nha Trang, Vinh took us home to his flat for some dinner. He’d made chicken and rice soup, but on the way home he stopped off to pick up an appetizer, as non-eventfully as we might stop … Continue reading
Laksa for breakfast
Empty street of Chinatown in Singapore Our flight out of Singapore is early on Sunday and Chinatown is virtually empty when we wander through looking for some breakfast. We stand at a cross roads thinking about our options: eat at … Continue reading
Posted in Asia, FOOD, TASTE TRAVEL
Tagged breakfast, Chinatown, coconut milk, Fish, fried wantons, Hawker center, Laksa, noodles, Singapore, spice
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Singapore Noodles
Just throw it all in there. Thin noodles. Bits of pork. A little bit of shrimp. Some egg. A few greens. And a little bit of spice, but nothing aggressive, just aromatic. This is snack in Chinatown after finally arriving … Continue reading
