Monday, March 19th, 2007
My father is this blog’s first foreign correspondent. On assignment in Hanoi just the other day, his camera phone snapped these images of how I wish Victoria St could be. I tell you, if you went to many places in old South East Asia and bought the entire fitout — well, perhaps not this restaurant’s [...]
Food, Victoria Street, Vietnamese cuisine-母の味 |
Monday, February 5th, 2007
What are festivals coming to in this city? The Swedish Fair at the Swedish Church is what you might call a good festival, and the festivals out in the sticks which are genuine community celebrations by Buddhists, Hindus, Tibetans and Whathaveyous are beaut. But so many festivals are just so crud: the Lygon St Fiesta, [...]
Food, Photography, Richmond, Victoria Street, Vietnamese, Vietnamese cuisine-母の味 |
Sunday, November 12th, 2006
Herr Nguyen may be off to Seoul — good for his korea — and so we finally got round to driving over to Footscray to check out the thing that makes Victoria St look like a pale imitation. That thing is the Vietnamese market. I had long thought the Nguyens had been taking the train [...]
Food, Victoria Street, Vietnamese cuisine-母の味 |