Sale!

Eating Viet Nam: Dispatches from a Blue Plastic Table

Amazon.com Price:  $9.27 (as of 05/05/2019 16:02 PST- Details)

Description

A journalist and blogger takes us on a colorful and spicy gastronomic tour through Viet Nam in this entertaining, offbeat go back and forth memoir, with a foreword by Anthony Bourdain.

 Growing up in a small town in northern England, Graham Holliday wasn’t keen on go back and forth. But in his early twenties, a picture of Hanoi sparked a curiosity that propelled him halfway across the globe. Graham didn’t need to be a tourist in an alien land, though; he was once decided to live it. An bizarre guy who liked trying interesting food, he moved to the capital city and embarked on a quest to find real Vietnamese food. In Eating Viet Nam, he chronicles his odyssey in this atypical, enticing land infused with sublime smells and tastes.

Traveling through the back alleys and across the boulevards of Hanoi—where home cooks set up grills and stripped-down stands serving sumptuous fare on blue plastic furniture—he risked dysentery, giardia, and diarrhea to discover a culinary treasure-load that was once really foreign and unique. Holliday shares every bite of the odd fresh dishes, pungent and bursting with flavor, which he came to love in Hanoi, Saigon, and the countryside. Here, too, are the remarkable people who became part of his new life, including his wife, Sophie.

A feast for the senses, funny, charming, and all the time delicious, Eating Viet Nam will inspire armchair travelers, curious palates, and everyone itching for a taste of adventure. 

Home » Shop » Books » Subjects » Literature and Fiction » World Literature » Asian » Vietnamese » Eating Viet Nam: Dispatches from a Blue Plastic Table

Recent Products