Vietnam
6 stories from 5 places visited between 2019 and 2025
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Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Bui Vien before the neon comes on Bui Vien Walking Street in Ho Chi Minh City on a December 2025 afternoon: an empty strip, a banquet table laid for twenty, and coffee on tiny pavement chairs.
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Nha Trang, Vietnam
Having the monsoon-season promenade entirely to ourselves Nha Trang in December 2025: monsoon-grey skies, a nearly empty seafront square and the lotus-shaped Tram Huong Tower rising all to ourselves.
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Da Nang, Vietnam
Six weeks of vegan lunches and a beach at the end of the road Da Nang in autumn 2019: macrobiotic set lunches, a corn seller at Con Market, monsoon rain on a wooden table and My Khe beach under a grey dusk.
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Five Vietnamese herbs worth buying without knowing what they are
Kinh gioi, rau ram, ngo gai, tia to and ngo om. The five Vietnamese herbs we kept going back for, what they taste like and what to do with them.
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Hoi An, Vietnam
A tailored ao dai, a lantern river and the Japanese bridge Hoi An in September 2019: the Japanese covered bridge from every angle, silk lanterns after dark, floating lanterns on the Thu Bon and a bowl of cao lau.
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Hanoi, Vietnam
Where our first journey through Vietnam began Hanoi in August 2019: backpacks on outside Ga Ha Noi, the city's grand old railway station, at the start of our first journey through Vietnam.