date:Sep 26, 2012
not been hit as hard and are more likely to forgo luxuries than dining out with friends, family, or colleagues, which is deemed a culturally important necessity in Vietnam.
Meat is no longer an occasional treat but a staple on many tables most nights in cities and some country areas. Vietnams famed street food has changed.
Hanoi-based Australian chef Tracey Lister wrote two cookbooks on Vietnamese food and first visited in 1994. Back then, a com binh dan (workers rice buffet) was just water sp