Word: nguyens
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...Nguyen Huu Viet must have thought the worst was over when he buried his two-year-old son on Dec. 25. The boy had drowned two days before in a fishpond near their home in northern Vietnam's Thai Binh province, and Viet was undone by the death. At the funeral the family served raw duck blood and porridge?rural comfort food. Although they had heard that the avian influenza that swept Southeast Asia last year had returned, they thought the disease was confined to the south. The day after the funeral, Viet fell sick with flulike symptoms...
...your main course, head to the shopping district near the Caravelle Hotel for another savory delight - on Nguyen Thiep street, you'll find hawkers selling banh goi. This spicy pastry pillow, also 30?, is filled with minced pork, deep-fried while you wait, and served in a newspaper wrapper...
...Still peckish? Combine a trip to nearby Saigon Zoo and Botanical Gardens with a treat from the che stall at 25 Nguyen Binh Khiem street. Che are sweet desserts made from various combinations of fruit, beans, tapioca, sugar and sweetened coconut milk, and are hugely popular in the south of Vietnam. At this stall you'll find a refreshing che dau van (made with haricot beans) for a mere 5?. Then drive it home with a digestif of rau ma (liquified pennywort), available from the Ben Thanh market food hall for just 25?. That brings your three-course meal with...
...image that summed up the moral chaos of the Vietnam War: Brigadier General Nguyen Ngoc Loan abruptly executing a captured Viet Cong. Although Adams said later that he believed Loan's claim that the man he killed had just murdered one of Loan's closest aides and his family, the picture became a turning point in American attitudes toward a brutal, perplexing...
...Still peckish? Combine a trip to nearby Saigon Zoo and Botanical Gardens with a treat from the che stall at 25 Nguyen Binh Khiem street. Che are sweet desserts made from various combinations of fruit, beans, tapioca, sugar and sweetened coconut milk, and are hugely popular in the south of Vietnam. At this stall you'll find a refreshing che dau van (made with haricot beans) for a mere $0.05. Then drive it home with a digestif of rau ma (liquified pennywort), available from the Ben Thanh market food hall for just $0.25. That brings your three-course meal with...