Travel
Introducing ‘A Culinary Odyssey’ — An Interview with Andrew Pham
Remember Andrew Pham’s acclaimed memoirs Catfish and Mandala and The Eaves of Heaven? He’s back — this time with culinary memories. Pham invokes meals from Viet Nam, where he was born, and from Thailand, Laos, and Cambodia, where he’s lived during the past decade. Here diaCRITIC Genevieve Erin O’Brien interviews Pham on his forthcoming release, A Culinary Odyssey: My Cookbook Diary of Travels, Flavors, …(read more)
For a Bag of Coffee (Giá của một gói cà phê)
Vietnam is simultaneously a major exporter of coffee (2nd largest in the world) and a primary source country for trafficked …(read more)
The Long Bien Picture Show // Buổi Chiếu Bóng Long Biên
Long Biên is a district in the city of Hà Nội that is home to about 170,000 inhabitants. For the last …(read more)
A Thousand Pictures Tells a (Epic) Story: Interviewing GB Tran
How to write with pictures and draw with words: GB Tran accomplishes this in his graphic novel, VIETNAMERICA: A Family’s …(read more)
Dark Tourism to Pulau Galang
Many will be familiar with the name Pulau Galang, a tiny Indonesian island just south of Singapore that housed …(read more)
diaCRITICIZE: On motherland (re)turns
As I typed “This is the second editor’s note for diaCRITICS, which we’ve decided to call diaCRITICIZE: The Stuff Vietnamese …(read more)
There’s something for everyone at the swap meet (chợ trời)
I have been going to swap meets (chợ trời) for as long as I can remember with my family. But in …(read more)
Vietnamese Epic & The Budget Traveler
Kim Van Kieu is one of those stories that is so famous that The Lonely Planet Guidebook will advise enterprising tourists …(read more)
Paradise and Prisons: New York Times on the Con Dao Islands
Vietnam is apparently going the way of Thailand. The New York Times wrote recently about the Con Dao Islands, once …(read more)
Eating Fried Chicken in Ho Chi Minh City
Visit Ho Chi Minh City these days and eventually you will bump into Colonel Sanders. In January 2008, burning-out from …(read more)
