In Saigon, there’s a quintessential spring roll with jicama that was brought in from Mexico, Chinese sausage and sweet Thai basil. You can only find this dish in Saigon. There’s also Cantonese dim sum, but with fermented soy from the north of Vietnam instead of the usual soy sauce ...
Take some thin sliced pork, a mixture of vegetables (I had little spinach, bean sprouts, long onion, and a little daikon). We grow many different vegetables: potatoes, eggplant, etc. I am having a blast, as I crunch on crab cakes with jicama slaw and lemon-chive aioli. This week, we...