Mời cả nhà ăn cơm!

Vietnamese food was at the centre of when I listened to all the stories that my elders spoke about in a way that was very unfiltered, not too academic, and very accessible. And it really looked at their personal experience of global histories in a way that was away from the white gaze, the colonial gaze, just very honest and without trying to create any trauma porn. So, Vietnamese food was a place where safety happened, where we nourished and cared for each other.

Das hängt auch davon ab, wie man selbst Geschmack empfindet. Wenn du merkst: So schmeckt’s mir nicht, aber so wie ich’s jetzt mache, ist es besser – dann machst du’s eben so. Das Grundrezept bleibt gleich, aber man entwickelt es für sich selbst einfach ein bisschen weiter.

Something that is not talked about enough is the medicinal side of food and how every food has a property–cooling, heating, or neutral. This is also mostly Chinese or Traditional Chinese Medicinal knowledge, of how powerful foods are, how to balance them and how to make sure that you are looking after your body. So if you’re eating fried food, it’s good to have something fresh.