I know I’m not really qualified to say this, but I love Vietnamese food. Having spent a total of only three weeks in but a handful of the country’s cities, my exposure to Vietnam’s vast culinary vocabulary is limited at…
Book Review: Communion
Tag: Asian markets
Asian Tours
Book Review: Thai Food/Arharn Thai by David Thompson
I recently came across David Thompson’s 2002 tome, Thai Food/Arharn Thai in our small local library. Not accustomed to finding such exotic content here in the high Rockies, I checked it out without even bothering to flip through a few…
Recipe: Som Tam (Green Papaya Salad)
The ubiquitous, delicious Thai sour salad. Find it on any street corner or haut venue. This variation from thanks to Blue Elephant cooking school in Bangkok
Vietnam’s central coast: a tour of Hoi An
“Eating noodles without chili is like making love without kissing,” said Ngoc, a 20-something office worker, as he bit into a tiny green pepper at one of Hoi An’s busiest street corners. It was 7am and the ancient port town…