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My aunty says she can't even say the word coffee after 11 am. Lots of folk I know have strict limits about when they consume coffee, particularly once the sun goes down. At night, suddenly caffeine becomes the enemy. I've...

SBS, Australia's Special Broadcasting Service, is a media organisation which "celebrates diversity and contributes to the social inclusion and cross-cultural understanding of all Australians - linguistically, sociologically and culturally." They do television, radio and online content. They have a terrific...

Food has been scarce in Vietnam at times. When rice was rationed, cassava, salt and peanuts were prominent in a diet far from nutritious. Meat would have existed more in people's dreams than on their plates. Crops were ordered destroyed...

My gastronomic mapping of Vietnam's capital is far from systematic. I've been led up, down and round and round by the city's pho threads and while it is my default breakfast and still a great comfort, I'd be surprised if...

The city I've been living in for the better part of a decade is turning 1000 years-old in October. Racing toward the millenium, Hanoi continues to be an exciting if chaotic experience that I actively participate in, though sometimes from...

Last week I discovered a vendor doing brisk trade in Haiphong's contribution to the spring roll collection. That if they can be called rolls! Known as nem cua be, they are more parcel than roll, held together with a strip...

Before I came to Vietnam, duck seemed so old-fashioned, so Peking, so Donald, so Daffy, so cartoon-character. So zoo animal, even. At Christmas in Australia, the duck was envied by other birds, less often getting the chop. I wonder if...

The beginning doesn't bear thinking about. There's oil and butter cooking together, forming fatty golden suds. Which will by dinner's end be coating my insides and squirting onwards to my heart. I console myself with the knowledge that humans need...

It's becoming increasingly difficult to go back to old Hanoi. The horizon is visible in only very few places as the move up to the sky continues. On clear days across West Lake, I used to be able to see...

I subscribe to pretty simple food principles. I mean I'm not averse to eating complex flavours or reading about them but I'm unlikely to fluff about with dry ice or blow torches in my own kitchen. I'm dangerous enough with...