I just covered the bakery in Cat Ba, so I decided it was time to write about the sweets and bakeries in Hanoi as well. One of the few things I had read about Vietnam before going there (a travel decision made less than a week in advance) was the abundance of bakeries. Thus I …
Each day during our time in Cat Ba, usually directly following a meal, we would go visit the Cat Ba Family Bakery. While I don’t remember seeing any label outside, this is the name I found for it online and I’m pretty sure this was the only bakery on the island. Lucky for us, it …
The best food you’ll find in Vietnam won’t be from a restaurant or some chic cafe – no, it will be found in the beating heart of the cities, on the side of rural roads, out of a push cart, while dining on plastic childrens’ chairs and tables. If you’re eating well, you’re indulging in …
One of the key marking events in South Korea is the local street market. Many neighborhoods (or -dongs as their referred to here) will have a local market. These markets will sell the local fare and food, usually at a much cheaper price than you might find at regular stores. Our local market was the …
Soup, rice, noodles – Hum Vegetarian has a delicious selection of authentic Vietnamese cuisine but for a vegetarian diet. Eating vegetarian in Vietnam is supposedly quite easy. Apparently, all you need to do is say “chay” and point to yourself, the food, or add it to the end of the name of the dish you want …
One day, probably about a month after we arrived in Korea (yes, this is another late Korea post), Kyle and I were walking along the street before the 4-9 market (and the one the grocery store is on) and came across a little bakery called Cake Country. We had probably seen it before but just …