09/10/2023
Couldn't have said it better ourselves.
"Vietnam is consistently guaranteed to provide a good experience. I think I was predisposed to love it. It lived up to and exceeded all my fool hearty expectations.
There is a fierce nationalism.
You find fierce national pride and lots of good cooks.
People are so visibly joyful about food and passionate about eating.
You know there is a pheromonic reaction when lovers meet - they just smell right to one another.
Vietnam smelled and felt right to me - the colors, smells, tastes - all my senses were involved. It was everything I had imagined - the Vietnam of "The Quiet American in Graham Greene - that was there. The Vietnam of "Apocalypse Now" - that was there too.
Great food was there. There was the hint of France, but also the element of the exotic.
"I was completely enchanted "
- Bourdain
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📝 - Compulsive reader, 2003.
