Table of Contents
Foreword Anthony Bourdain ix
1 Hà Noi 1
2 Bún Chi 17
3 In Search of a Monster 27
4 Beyond Tràng Tien Street 41
5 Food Safari 57
6 Vina-land 63
7 Moving Out 77
8 Tet 87
9 Taking the Vina-pulse 101
10 Nothing Worked 117
11 Poisoned 131
12 Never Mind the Bollocks 141
13 The Ten Commandments of Street Food 153
14 I Never Remember You 163
15 It's Shit in the South 169
16 Hoa Hung Street, District 10, Sài Gòn 175
17 Paperback Writer 183
18 Sài Gòn 187
19 Enter Hém Hoà Hung Market 195
20 Noodlepie 205
21 The Tape 217
22 "Vietnamese Food Is Nothing Without Herbs" 227
23 No Magic Ingredients 239
24 Bánh Mì 249
25 It's the Chinese 267
26 What a Very Civil Civil War 273
27 All Vietnamese Love Bánh Cuon 289
28 Bà Sáu Bún Måm 295
29 A Northern Soup in a Southern City 311
30 My Shift Is Up 319
31 Apocalypse Now 323
Liner Notes 329