Category: Vietnamese

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Noodlepie: a streetfood blog from (Big) Saigon

I came across this attractive blog about streetfood in Saigon, more correctly known now as Ho Chi Minh city. It will serve as a useful touchstone in the cutting edge investigative journalism this blog will engage in in answering the question: is Victoria St’s food Chinese or Vietnamese? Meanwhile, just enjoy it. For balance, have a look at Sticky Rice, a food blog about Hanoi food. Friends from Hanoi study in Melbourne and their cooking is to die for and not much like Victoria Street’s at all. The photo is from noodlepie’s flickr pages and depicts my favourite foods: pork rolls bursting with another favourite food, coriander. More about pork rolls, much more, in due course.

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Abbotsford’s viet kieu: preliminary readings

Girl near Ga Sai Gon by Tom Harjo (laNDN) at Flickr

The Vietnamese precinct of Abbotsford will be the subject of much analysis on this blog, as will Victoria Street’s restaurants and whether the food they dish up is in fact Vietnamese, or Chinese, or Vietnamese Chinese (Hoa). For the time being, here are links to fascinating Wikipedia articles about the Vietnamese, the Vietnamese diaspora generally (its participants are the “viet kieu“), that part of it which came to Australia, other Little Saigons about the world, and that Richmond boy, Van Tuong Nguyen. And here’s the link, for good measure, to Vietnam, and to the American War, as the Vietnamese call the bit after they beat the Frogs. The photo is by Tom Harjo of LA at Flickr, and is titled “Girl near Ga Sai Gon”.