- An excellent video showing you how to make Pho at home
- PBS has a nice piece about Vietnamese priests serving in rural America
- It seems that the Vietnamese government is really cracking down on press freedom, and Committee to Protect Journalists investigates why
- Hanoi street food from the Medical Observer
- If you're in Australia, here is a handy list of suggestions of what wine to have with Vietnamese food
- Quinn Ryan Mattingly has a beautiful photo of backstage at the circus in Saigon
- There's a Luxe City Guide to Ho Chi Minh City. And while you're there, check out the beautiful Giac Lam Pagoda
- Some people seem to think taking the hard seat on the train to Hanoi is a romantic thing to do, and The Age brings us one such story
- MGM Grand is building a casino in Vietnam
- There was a gay-themed drama performed live in Ho Chi Minh City, according to Gay Star News
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Hi Walter! Just stumbled across your blog after researching Quan The Am. I have no idea why I never discovered your blog or book earlier but it's great that I've found it now.
ReplyDeleteI heard about MGM building a casino in Vietnam but I thought that was all hearsay until I saw official ads for it at Youtube. I'm actually quite surprised and to be honest, I don't know if I like the idea of having a casino for 'foreigners only'...but I guess that's Vietnam =\
Island - it's a ridiculous situation, isn't it? And then Saigon gamblers get into a bus and head over the border to use the casinos in Cambodia that are for foreigners only.
ReplyDeleteIt's all a crazy kind of paternalism which is about appearances only.
And as if illegal gambling doesn't occur everywhere in Vietnam!
Blessings of Quan The Am upon you.