20/09/2023
“Vietnam is consistently guaranteed to provide a good experience. I think I was predisposed to love it. It lived up to and exceeded all my foolhearty expectations. There is a fierce nationalism. You find fierce national pride and lots of good cooks. People are so visibly joyful about food and passionate about eating. You know there is a pheromonic reaction when lovers meet—they just smell right to one another. Vietnam smelled and felt right to me—the colors, smells, tastes—all my senses were involved. It was everything I had imagined—the Vietnam of “The Quiet American in Graham Greene—that was there. The Vietnam of “Apocalypse Now”—that was there, too. Great food was there. There was the hint of France, but also the element of the exotic. I was completely enchanted.”
–Bourdain
📸 Parts Unknown
💬 Compulsive Reader, 2003
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