We celebrated Truc’s twenty-second birthday with spaghetti and snails. Bao is a fussy eater – he wouldn’t touch the spaghetti.
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truc twenty-two
Published 8 October 2009 District 11 , Ho Chi Minh City , Vietnam 1 CommentTags: family
saigon zoo
Published 5 December 2008 District 1 , Ho Chi Minh City , Vietnam Leave a CommentTags: zoe
Our first outing was to the Saigon Zoo. All was well until the elephant sneezed.
The elephant remained upright, but gave Zoe quite a fright.
two wheels
Published 3 December 2008 District 3 , Ho Chi Minh City , Vietnam Leave a CommentTags: zoe
We all agreed that we would keep Zoe off of motorcycles in Vietnam. That lasted until about five minutes after we arrived in Saigon. Trinh and Zoe jumped on Di Thu’s Honda and headed to the market.
dzô đi!
Published 2 May 2008 District 3 , Ho Chi Minh City , Vietnam Leave a CommentTags: family, noah
We all enjoyed a quit trip to Vietnam last week. It was so hot in Saigon that we had to eat dinner outside Di Vân’s house. A perfect opportunity to nhậu with Anh Cường and Anh Triều.
Tim Page opened an exhibition of his photographs at Cantina Central last night. He and I have crossed paths many times in Vietnam and Cambodia over the last fifteen years. I also ran into a bunch of old friends who have remained in Vietnam since Trinh and I left in 2000.
seasoning zoe
Published 9 December 2007 District 3 , Ho Chi Minh City , Vietnam 7 CommentsTags: zoe
The weather in Saigon has become increasingly hot in the last week, so emphasis has changed from keeping Zoe as warm as possible to as cool as possible. And there’s no better way to cool baby down than to rub her with cỏ mực leaves.
I’ve been feeling a bit under the weather lately. A low-grade cold, caused no doubt by a bad wind. Definitely time for a giác hơi. Chị Sương swabs glass cups with an alcohol torch, and quickly places them on my back. The vacuum created when the air inside the cup cools sucks up my skin deep into the cups.
It leaves a hell of a mark. There have been many cases when Vietnamese families in America have nearly been sent to jail for child abuse.
enhanced interrogation
Published 8 December 2007 District 7 , Ho Chi Minh City , Vietnam 2 CommentsTags: zoe
Zoe wasn’t real thrilled with the nasal irrigation during her doctor’s appointment on Friday. No surprise there really. Being held down on her back with her head inclined and water poured into her nose reminds me bit of something else.
projecting into the night
Published 8 December 2007 District 1 , Ho Chi Minh City , Vietnam Leave a CommentTags: arts
I checked out the opening of Hoang Duong Cam’s exhibit at Galerie Quynh on Thursday night. Good stuff, and the new gallery on De Tham Street is very nice. The exhibit, titled “Projecting into the night what has gone with the dawn”, runs until 5 January.
