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Posted by reasons on Feb 5, 2015 in Blog, Elsewhere, Food, Other Places | Comments Off on Bánh cuốn – Spring Rolls

Back in the kitchen for another cooking lesson. Spring rolls or bánh cuốn. These I think I may be able to make at home. Provided I...

Posted by reasons on Feb 2, 2015 in Blog, Elsewhere, Other Places | Comments Off on Parks, Gardens and the Zoo

Among the rattle of bikes, screeching of buses and malodorous fumes, Saigon has a liberal smattering of gardens, parks and green...

Posted by reasons on Jan 28, 2015 in Blog, Elsewhere, Food, Other Places | Comments Off on New Year Preparation – Tết

Having just had the quietest and I must say cheapest, Festive Season ever, I am about to enter another. Vietnam, always up for a...

Posted by reasons on Jan 23, 2015 in Blog, Elsewhere, Food, Other Places | Comments Off on Extraordinary to Extra Ordinary – Saigon

Already more than twenty days into the New Year! From writing about two or three hikes a week I am shrunk to one ‘every so often’....

I am frequently asked ‘what do you like most about Ho Chi Minh’. The answer: food and people. And in the absence of mountains my ‘social...

Posted by reasons on Jan 5, 2015 in Blog, Elsewhere, Nature, Other Places | Comments Off on New Year’s Day 2015

As the the inner districts of Ho Chi Minh sprawl to nearly 500km2 , and I live pretty close to the centre, it is hardly a hop and...