After falling in love with Khmer food in Cambodia, and feeling at best very ambivalent about Lao food, and being hugely disappointed with much of the food we found in Thailand, I'm just delighted to be here, eating among other things Pho (noodle soup), crispy wontons, endless varieties of noodle salad, and Bahn Mi (literally 'bread with...', a mini-baguette filled with anything from butter and jam to slices of roast pork and fresh cucumber). I am also on a mission to find the best fresh (not fried, which aren't bad either) shrimp spring rolls in Vietnam: I order them whenever they are on the menu. Always with peanut sauce, but each peanut sauce tastes different.
The Vietnamese food tastes so fresh, and does a brilliant job of what I think Thai food is best at in theory - taking bland, simple bases and studding them with little explosions of bright flavor - ginger, mint, chili, shrimp, onion, galangal.
Oh, and the beer is really cheap, but if you want to get seriously incompetent in a hurry there's Hanoi Vodka. Which, unfortunately, is pretty good.
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