I saw someone tweet “I keep saying last year but realizing I don’t actually mean last year; I mean the last year I did anything.” That stuck with me.
Anyway, “last year,” I was in a crowded restaurant in Hanoi with my mom and dad, enjoying fried stuff and beer. It’s crazy to think about. I remember the shrimp cakes (my favorite), dumplings with glass noodles (I think?), and fermented pork spring rolls. I thought I’d heard wrong and they couldn’t mean actually fermented, but nope! It was. And it was delicious!














