Catfish, marsh snails, and BBQ

Where I live and work is rural. There is a town, but almost everything near by is traditional. There isn't much if anything western unless I want to go to the nearest small city. This means  taking off our shoes to enter the restaurant and sitting on the floor around the table. So every time [...]

Cafe Hoang

I met a friend for a late lunch, she picked out the place, a Vietnamese restaurant in her neighborhood that she hadn't been to before. It had beautiful Vietnamese music playing (I assume). There were beautiful plants, orchids, bamboo and more and the walls had patterns made by small tile. They gave us a glass [...]