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Exploring Northern Vietnam: The Beauty of Hai Phong and Hai Duong

Exploring Hai Phong and Hai Duong: A Journey Through Northern Vietnam Hanoi serves as the perfect hub for exploring the northern regions of Vietnam. On this occasion, our travels took…

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Bún chả Hương Liên the special bun cha

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Bún Chả Hương Liên: The Hanoi Restaurant Obama Visited for Vietnam’s Best Pork

Bún Chả Hương Liên: A Culinary Love Letter from Hanoi In the world of food pilgrimages, there are some places you visit because you’ve heard they’re good, and then there…

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Thanh Binh – sincere Vietnamese

Thanh Binh Vietnamese Restaurant Camden Town Thanh Binh is one of the few Vietnamese restaurants in North London. What’s the first thing you picture, when you think about Camden Town?…

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Thrilling jet boat ride with Dart River Tour | Saigon Kingdom

Dart River jet boat tour One of the best memories from my NZ trip was an exhilarating jet boat ride on the dart rivers. The tour company we booked with…

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Banh Mi Town – Good local find Fitzrovia

Banh Mi Town There are only a handful of Vietnamese places within the Fitzrovia area, and Banh Mi Town is one of the better ones. Located in the quieter streets…

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Bang Bang Canteen – Vietnamese Street Food

Ah, since the beginning of the year with a temporary office move. We made it to Warren Street, and thankfully there’s a lot more is on offer in Fitzrovia. I…

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Banh Mi Bay Review Canon Street – Quick stops for Vietnamese

It was a long night and I happened to attend a bloggers/press event nearby. I was hungry and my blogger friends were also the same. We decided to grab some…

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Dumpling Shack School Yard, Cà Phê VN Browadway Market

It’s been the talk of the town for a while. I’ve been meaning to pay a visit to Dumpling shack at School Yard near Broadway market. Each time I’ve tried John…

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Viet Union – UK’s first Pho Challenge

There’s a lot of food challenges been created all around the world every minute. With the popularity of Man V. My good friend Hungry Ronin asked me to come along to…

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Viet Grill – There’s more to Pho

For the very best in Vietnamese restaurants, my vote goes to Cay Tre for those heart-warming bowls of Pho that takes 18 hours to make the broth. The unusual Vietnamese…

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Cafe Coco – One to watch

Cafe Coco is one of those places that only opens in the evenings after 5pm with the exception of Sunday. Located in Mare Street, in the heart of biggest community it…

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Char Grilled belly pork – Bun Thit Nuong Recipe

Char Grilled belly pork – Bun Thit Nuong Recipe Recipe Type: Vietnamese Author: Lebinh Prep time: 20 mins Cook time: 30 mins Total time: 50 mins This is an…

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How to make Vietnamese coffee

In a cup add condensed milk, it doesn’t matter how much as you can always add later on. 1 tablespoon of Vietnamese coffee to your stainless steel coffee filter Fill…

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She came from down under – MissChu

The faded almost photocopied looking face with the logo “MissChu”. All looked familiar to me. People in my foodie circle tweeted photos of the bikes and my family down under…

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savouring the heavenly beef pho’s – City Càphê

City Càphê has been on my to eat list for a few years. I didn’t realise Bank was only minutes away from St Pauls where I work. Hidden on a…

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My ღ for Tapioca durian cake & coconut ice cream – Cay Tre

This is my second visit to Cay Tre Hoxton branch, F and I was craving for some good old heart warming Pho. I dragged my friend here for lunch one…

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Keu London – Banh mi

Last Saturday I was totally craving a Banh Mi, after unsuccessfully trying to contact the owners of Banhmi113 Anh and Van was on holiday in Vietnam to return my tweets…

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A healthy bowl of slurping goodness of Pho – Cay Tre

Whenever someone mentions Vietnamese food, Cay tre pops in my head, I’ve been many times in the area of old street/Shoreditch but never felt hungry enough to pop in to…

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Pho ga – cafe sen

Normally after my zumba lessons I’m at cafe sen having dinner. This week I choose to have pho ga. The soup flavouring is very sweet from the caramelised onions, broth…

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Banh mi bay

I still remember my very first banh mi, it was whilst holidaying in swtizerland. A friend of my aunts made some, and from then I was gripped by all the…

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