Cover image for Eating Việt Nam : dispatches from a blue plastic table
Title:
Eating Việt Nam : dispatches from a blue plastic table
Author:
Holliday, Graham, 1969- , author.
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
New York, NY : Ecco, [2015]

©2015
Physical Description:
xii, 337 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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.
General Note:
"Foreword by Anthony Bourdain"--Dust jacket.

"An Anthony Bourdain book."
Language:
English
Contents:
Há Nội -- Bún chả -- In search of a monster -- Beyond Tráng Tiền Street -- Food safari -- Vina-land -- Moving out -- Tết -- 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 Hưng Street, District 10, Sài Gòn -- Paperback writer -- Sài Gòn -- Enter Hẻm Hoà Hưng 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 Cuốn -- Bà sáu bún mắm -- A northern soup in a southern city -- My shift is up -- Apocalypse now.
ISBN:
9780062293053
Format :
Book