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Vietnam Street Sandwich Recap

February 6th, 2010 · 9 Comments · Reviews, Sandwich, Silf, Travel, Vietnam, Vietnamese, condiments, street food

A couple of weeks before I left for Vietnam, my buddy, Mike, and I visited the acclaimed Saigon Sandwich in San Francisco. I hadn’t tried a Vietnamese sandwich before. After washing down my first “banh mi” with a couple of red beers, Mike suggested that I write a follow up post reporting on any sandwich [...]

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Cau Lau: What’s in that Well Water?

January 23rd, 2010 · 2 Comments · Travel, Vietnam, Vietnamese, street food

Overrun with lurky-lou, Western tourists and vocal merchants hocking chopsticks, t-shirts, and everything in between, Hoi An is said to be Vietnam’s foodiest town. I’m still on the fence on that one. It seems that most of the restaurants here serve the same unimaginative menu catering to bargain conscious tourists.
Ignoring maniacal menu waiving restaurant recruiters, I managed [...]

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