My Fiery Valentine |
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For Valentine's Day, we were in Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon), Vietnam's modern urban explosion -- a bustling hotbed of sparkly lights, motorbikes, and trendy bars owned by disillusioned expatriates. As things are, people seem to be much too busy or much too drunk to care about St. Valentine. However, at Nam Giao, a small, excellent restaurant where the Vietnamese middle class come to lunch, and where sweet lotus teas are only 2000 dong a pop (the food isn't too expensive either), a few burning hearts appeared with the (delicious) mustard leaf-wrapped spring rolls we ordered. We're not sure whether the chefs were making a Valentine nod, or if they were just trying to make the fiery chilis seem more enticing. Either way, we'd finally found a little taste of love.
Nam Giao (open daily 7:45am-9pm) is located at 136/15 Le Thanh Ton, down an alley just northeast of Ben Thanh Market.
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