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Author Holliday, Graham, 1969- author

Title Eating Viêt Nam : dispatches from a blue plastic table / Graham Holliday

Publisher New York, NY : Ecco, [2015]
©2015

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 Bangor Pub. Lib. Stacks  FOOD 641.3 .H7247e    AVAILABLE  
Edition First edition
Phys Descr xii, 337 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Note "Foreword by Anthony Bourdain"--Jacket
"An Anthony Bourdain book."
Contents Há ˆNi -- Bún cha -- In search of a monster -- Beyond Tráng Tˆièn Street -- Food safari -- Vina-land -- Moving out -- ˆTét -- Taking the Vina-pulse -- Nothing worked -- Poisoned -- Never mind the bollocks -- The ten commandments of street food -- I never remember you -- It's shit in the south -- Hoà Hung Street, District 10, Sài Gòn -- Paperback writer -- Sài Gòn -- Enter Hem Hoà Hung Market -- Noodlepie -- The tape -- "Vietnamese food is nothing without herbs" -- No magic ingredients -- Bánh mì -- It's the Chinese -- What a very civil civil war -- All Vietnamese love Báhn Cˆuón -- Bà sáu bún mám -- A northern soup in a southern city -- My shift is up -- Apocalypse now
Summary "Graham didn't want to be just a tourist in a foreign country ... he was determined to try to live in it. An ordinary guy who liked trying interesting food, he moved to the capital city and embarked on a quest to find real Vietnamese food."--Book jacket, page 2
Subject Food -- Vietnam
Street-food vendors -- Vietnam
Street food -- Vietnam
Cooking, Vietnamese
Food tourism -- Vietnam
Holliday, Graham, 1969- -- Travel -- Vietnam
Alt Title Eating Vietnam
OCLC # 881869480
ISBN # 0062293052
9780062293053