July 2016

Vietnam MFF: most favored foods

Here are my favorite pescaterian-vegetarian food picks on this trip to Vietnam… Top left: Chã cá, or table charcoal-grilled hake fillets with tons of fresh dill, turmeric, galangal, ginger, fish sauce and shrimp paste, at Cha Ca Thanh Long in Hanoi Top right: bánh khúc, mung bean dumplings with cassava and rice flour skins, my …

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Raohe night market (饒河夜市): a concentrated chaos of Taiwanese street food, young folk, middle-aged tourists and sellers hawking cheap knockoffs

No visit to Taiwan is complete without a visit to a night market. Despite my exhaustion from jet lag and walking around Taipei in sweltering summer heat, last night I made it to the Raohe night market (饒河夜市) next to the Songshan MRT and local train station and was pumped enough by all the activity …

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