"After years in America, her Thai is noticeably changed enough for people in Thailand to notice."
American Vietnamese everything is different. Vietnamese food is better in the USA with a few exceptions. Ice cream is kem here, ka-rem in the USA. There are some dishes I can get in any Vietnamese restaurant in America but have never seen …
"After years in America, her Thai is noticeably changed enough for people in Thailand to notice."
American Vietnamese everything is different. Vietnamese food is better in the USA with a few exceptions. Ice cream is kem here, ka-rem in the USA. There are some dishes I can get in any Vietnamese restaurant in America but have never seen here.
Most American Vietnamese fled the south so you don't hear much Hanoi dialect. And in places with a lot of Vietnamese people are not shocked at a white person speaking it. In 2017 I went into one and asked for a table for two and nobody raised an eyebrow.
I once asked why even 3rd generation Vietnamese people in the US Speak English with a Vietnamese accent. They reached their children Vietnamese first. For the most part they feel displaced I'm America.
Food is a different thing for Thai food. In restraints in the US you mostly find Bangkok Thai food. Good but I prefer the variety from my wife's provence. Some of it is actually Lao and it is all a bit different. The misty glaring difference is that Bangkok Thai food is often sweetened with sugar, something my wife would never add. Even desserts are naturally sweetened with fruits rather than sugar in her meal preparation.
American Chinese food isn't Chinese at all/ I thought I was eating it all my life till a Chinese took me out to eat. A whole new world.
Thai food is closer. Sometimes it's recognizably Thai, sometimes very close.
There *is* no Americanized Vietnamese food. Different dishes, yes, different species of fish. but it's Real Asian Food.
That's why decent Vietnamese noodle houses are packed with Asians from everywhere. Because phở may not be the same as the Chinese dish it comes from but it feeds the soul.
The Asian grocery stores that we frequent are Vietnamese owned. Most of the stuff is common. The big exception is that the various curry pastes are uniquely Thai. I prefer Thai curries to the ones from India. An exceptional appropriation made their own.
Our Vietnamese friends, like us, cook smelly Asian varieties of fish on the back porch to not smell up the house. We have a two-burner propane camp stove for that. It's too cumbersome to do that for the hot peppers so our kitchen often seems to have received a visit from SWAT, but that dissipates more quickly than some of the fish varieties we cook. The Vietnamese markets are our fish markets.
I was crushed to learn that the grocery I shopped at twice a week for years, Viet Wah ("Vietnamese Chinese [people]") shut down a few years ago. When my partner moved in with me we went there and spent about $100 to stock the pantry.
"After years in America, her Thai is noticeably changed enough for people in Thailand to notice."
American Vietnamese everything is different. Vietnamese food is better in the USA with a few exceptions. Ice cream is kem here, ka-rem in the USA. There are some dishes I can get in any Vietnamese restaurant in America but have never seen here.
Most American Vietnamese fled the south so you don't hear much Hanoi dialect. And in places with a lot of Vietnamese people are not shocked at a white person speaking it. In 2017 I went into one and asked for a table for two and nobody raised an eyebrow.
I once asked why even 3rd generation Vietnamese people in the US Speak English with a Vietnamese accent. They reached their children Vietnamese first. For the most part they feel displaced I'm America.
Food is a different thing for Thai food. In restraints in the US you mostly find Bangkok Thai food. Good but I prefer the variety from my wife's provence. Some of it is actually Lao and it is all a bit different. The misty glaring difference is that Bangkok Thai food is often sweetened with sugar, something my wife would never add. Even desserts are naturally sweetened with fruits rather than sugar in her meal preparation.
American Chinese food isn't Chinese at all/ I thought I was eating it all my life till a Chinese took me out to eat. A whole new world.
Thai food is closer. Sometimes it's recognizably Thai, sometimes very close.
There *is* no Americanized Vietnamese food. Different dishes, yes, different species of fish. but it's Real Asian Food.
That's why decent Vietnamese noodle houses are packed with Asians from everywhere. Because phở may not be the same as the Chinese dish it comes from but it feeds the soul.
The Asian grocery stores that we frequent are Vietnamese owned. Most of the stuff is common. The big exception is that the various curry pastes are uniquely Thai. I prefer Thai curries to the ones from India. An exceptional appropriation made their own.
Our Vietnamese friends, like us, cook smelly Asian varieties of fish on the back porch to not smell up the house. We have a two-burner propane camp stove for that. It's too cumbersome to do that for the hot peppers so our kitchen often seems to have received a visit from SWAT, but that dissipates more quickly than some of the fish varieties we cook. The Vietnamese markets are our fish markets.
I was crushed to learn that the grocery I shopped at twice a week for years, Viet Wah ("Vietnamese Chinese [people]") shut down a few years ago. When my partner moved in with me we went there and spent about $100 to stock the pantry.