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$6 bun cha

Why would a world-renowned chef like Anthony Bourdain take the leader of the free world, President Barack Obama, to a humble street café in Vietnam? If you’ve followed Bourdain’s work, you know he lived for “the food of the people.” In 2016, amidst a diplomatic trip the two met in secret at a small café in Hanoi to share a […]

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chinatown, noodles and me

chicken chow mein

While I’m a self-confessed expert on the subject of potatoes, there’s another carbohydrate I’m fairly clueless on: noodles. I know about the dried egg ones from Sharwoods, the soft ones from Amoy, and I’m aware there’s such a thing as flat ribbon noodles, Udon (the chunky ones) and soba. Beyond that my knowledge is really sketchy. Enter noodle pro MiMi […]

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