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Food Stories

Eat | Lunch

Host Family’s Hut • Sapa

They say bugs are the next big thing. Of course it’s mostly scientists saying this not chefs so what that really means is that it’s in the marketers hands to listen to the social psychologists about consumer acceptance patterns so that the world doesn’t run out of hamburgers. While they are...

Eat | Breakfast

Park Hyatt • Ho Chi Minh City

This killer dish isn’t as much about the food as it is about the environment. Imagine you just landed in one of the most foreign places you’ve ever seen. You were accosted by hundreds of thousand of motor bikes swarming around your cab as you journeyed to the heart of a city that’s...

Eat | Lunch

Ban the Bánh mì

I have been to Vietnam. I have had this sandwich a hundred times. The above is raved about as the best in San Francisco but I sure hope they are wrong. I realize I am not in Saigon and I don’t hold this sammie to the standards that only a third world, health code-less country can achieve but...

Travel | Journey

Vietnam Home Cookin

My favorite meal I have had so far in South East Asia is from a place called Dac San Hoi An, in Hoi An Vietnam. Hoi An is small little shopping town with a lot of places to eat. Very authentic restaurants all over and great deals for shopping. We hired a taxi for the day and set off to Hoi An for a...