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Monday, September 19, 2022









Hamburgers, chicken sandwiches, hot dogs and sushi sold to shool kids on 9-19-22--Vung Tau copy




Hamburgers, chicken sandwiches, hot dogs, fried chicken, "samwich" and sushi sold to school children for breakfast. Most Vietnamese have a pretty substantial first meal, so they would start their day with a bowl of pho or Phnom Penh noodles, or a plate of broken rice with pork chop, etc. When I was a schoolkid in Saigon half a century ago, we didn't eat burgers, fried chicken or sushi for breakfast, but more modest traditional fares, such as bột chiên [fried rice-flour cakes] or gỏi đu đủ khô bò [raw papaya with beef jerky]. A fancy version of bột chiên includes one fried egg.


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