{"product_id":"eating-viet-nam-dispatches-from-a-blue-plastic-table-9780062293060","title":"Eating Viet Nam: Dispatches from a Blue Plastic Table","description":"\u003cp\u003eA journalist and blogger takes us on a colorful and spicy gastronomic tour through Viet Nam in this entertaining, offbeat travel memoir, with a foreword by Anthony Bourdain.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Growing up in a small town in northern England, Graham Holliday wasn't keen on travel. But in his early twenties, a picture of Hanoi sparked a curiosity that propelled him halfway across the globe. Graham didn't want to be a tourist in an alien land, though; he was determined to live it. An ordinary guy who liked trying interesting food, he moved to the capital city and embarked on a quest to find real Vietnamese food. In \u003cem\u003eEating Viet Nam\u003c\/em\u003e, he chronicles his odyssey in this strange, enticing land infused with sublime smells and tastes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTraveling through the back alleys and across the boulevards of Hanoi--where home cooks set up grills and stripped-down stands serving sumptuous fare on blue plastic furniture--he risked dysentery, giardia, and diarrhea to discover a culinary treasure-load that was truly foreign and unique. Holliday shares every bite of the extraordinary fresh dishes, pungent and bursting with flavor, which he came to love in Hanoi, Saigon, and the countryside. Here, too, are the remarkable people who became a part of his new life, including his wife, Sophie.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA feast for the senses, funny, charming, and always delicious, \u003cem\u003eEating Viet Nam\u003c\/em\u003e will inspire armchair travelers, curious palates, and everyone itching for a taste of adventure. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHolliday, Graham:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eGraham Holliday grew up in Rugby, England, and moved to Iksan, South Korea, in 1996 to teach English. He is the author of \u003cem\u003eEating Vi\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003ee\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003et Nam: Dispatches from a Blue Plastic Table\u003c\/em\u003e and the blog \u003cem\u003enoodlepie\u003c\/em\u003e about street food in Sài Gòn. He has written for the \u003cem\u003eGuardian\u003c\/em\u003e (UK), the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times Magazine, \u003c\/em\u003e the \u003cem\u003eSouth China Morning Post, Time, \u003c\/em\u003e BBC, CNN, and many other media outlets.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Anthony Bourdain\/Ecco","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50459906343186,"sku":"9780062293060","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_449340ec-0f29-42d0-bef9-3b7a869f8dd0.jpg?v=1730013848","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/eating-viet-nam-dispatches-from-a-blue-plastic-table-9780062293060","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}