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Victoria St this is not: Hanoi’s famed Cha Ca La Vong Restaurant

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 [...]

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Victoria St Vietnamese Lunar New Year Festival

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, [...]

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A trip to Footscray — the true Little Saigon — with Mr Nguyen

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 [...]

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