On a long-ago trip to Thailand, my favorite street food was one of the simplest — pineapple. We’d buy it from the street vendors, who sold plastic bags full of the sweetest, juiciest fruit I’d ever eaten. But it was the addictive, and deceptively simple, dipping “powder” that kept me coming back for more. A […]
Vietnamese Eats
WanderFood Wednesday: What’s Shiny, Sweet, and Slightly Stinky?
“Here, smell this,” my husband Alan said the other night when he came home holding a paper bag. I looked at him skeptically as he put the sack to my nose. “I brought you a surprise,” he said. “Don’t worry. It’s food.” I do love surprises — especially when they involve eating — but I […]
WanderFood Wednesday: Beauty in Melon
Food tends to be presented so much more beautifully in other countries than in the U.S. Case in point is this watermelon in a vendor’s basket in Vietnam. Leaves line the carrier that hangs on the shoulders of the seller as she walks the streets trying to make a few dong. So simple but simply […]