I was happy to find that Hanoi is a place where it’s pretty easy to be a vegetarian, or even vegan. I could almost always find something vegetarian to eat at a given restaurant and there were a number of exclusively vegetarian/vegan restaurants as well. One, or rather, at least two, of these, was Loving Hut Hanoi. …
During our time in Vietnam, we traveled through Ho Chi Minh, Hanoi, and Cat Ba. We got to try a pretty wide array of the local cuisine, and while the list of indigenous foods is far more extensive than what we got to try, we found that we did get a nice sample of the …
Somehow, a week had gone by in Ho Chi Minh. An entire week – we’d gone to the grocery store, eaten the unique (to us) fruits, tried Vietnamese coffee (which is great), authentic Vietnamese tea (also good), and had a few smoothies. But I hadn’t yet had a single authentic Vietnamese food dish. My intention …