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How Vietnamese cuisine borrowed from Chinese and French culture but retains its unique character

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It is impossible to appreciate the deliciousness and abundance of Vietnamese food today without contrasting it with the privations the people have endured throughout the country’s long history. For Nicole Routhier, born in Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City) to a Vietnamese mother and French father, it sounds like at times her childhood was quite comfortable – while at other times, it was not.In the introduction to her book The Foods of Vietnam (1989), Routhier, who now has a restaurant in Houston,…

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