Con Dao is two islands occupying the same stretch of sea. One is a small archipelago of forested peaks and empty beaches an hour’s flight from Ho Chi Minh City, with coral reefs, nesting sea turtles and a road along the coast that most visitors describe as the most beautiful drive in Vietnam. The other…
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At ten o’clock on a Saturday night, Bui Vien Street is four hundred metres of competing sound systems, plastic stools spreading halfway across the road, neon on every facade, and several thousand people who have decided that this is the correct way to spend an evening. It is the loudest place in Vietnam, and visitors…
Saigon does not really sleep, it just changes shifts. When the offices empty and the day markets close, a second city wakes up: plastic stools spill onto the pavement, charcoal grills glow and pots of broth bubble for a crowd that has no plans to go home. For night owls, shift workers and anyone craving…
Every Vietnamese table has something on it that is fried, something that is grilled, something in a broth, and then one plate that is none of those: a row of translucent white cylinders with green herbs and pink shrimp showing through the wrapper. That is goi cuon, and it is the lightest thing in Vietnamese…
