With thinner noodles, raw string beans, raw cabbage and a dipping sauce for the cabbage, this is certainly not phở as it's served in Vietnam. Still, it's pretty good, and at 25,000 kips [$1.44], a fine deal.
The lady asked if I was from Hanoi, and I've had a Hanoi taxi driver mistaking me for a local. "No," I said, "but my mother's from Hanoi. I was living in Vung Tau." Since she was both cook and cashier, and the place was busy, I didn't want to elaborate.
"I just went to Vung Tau!" she said.
Since Laos is landlocked, it was a treat to hang out by the ocean, but eating out there was too expensive, she said. Still, she agreed with me Vung Tau has so many dishes not available in Pakse. She was only there for two days.
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It was perhaps your northern Vietnamese accent that gave her the impression that you were from Ha Noi.
Yes, of course, and when in Hanoi, I mimick others to sound even more Hanoian! When I speak to the Nam Dinh side of my family, I sound more Nam Dinh. This is no different from how Americans from the South, say, sound less southern around northerners.--Linh
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