food & things with Christy Wang
After my first trip to Barcelona last year, I had drafted up a “places to eat” post that I never got around to finishing and publishing… well, second time’s the charm, right? During my first trip, I stayed near the city center which was great …
I’d been eating a ton of olives, anchovies, and other ‘smelly’ foods while in Spain and my jetlagged self remembered that these were also the key ingredients to puttanesca at around 3am while unable to sleep. I went to the market the next morning (read: …
![Scenes of Saigon [photo diary]](https://christyw.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/IMG_2959-360x540.jpg)
Sharing some moments I captured during my week in Saigon. They don’t do the craziness of the city any justice.
Oh, Saigon. I have so many mixed feelings about this place — I encountered some of the rudest people of my whole trip here but also some of the kindest. I had some of the best eats in Vietnam and almost some of my worst. …
Hanoi, my first stop in Vietnam, a country I’ve been looking forward to visiting the last six months. I remember getting out of the Uber on my way from the airport and just smiling at how busy the city was: the scooters whizzing by, the …
With the exception of a bowl of pho in Paris and a banh mi in KL (which were both terrible mistakes), I’ve forced myself to resist the temptation of getting Vietnamese food during the last six months, all in anticipation of coming to Vietnam. I’ve …