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Trained as an organic chemist. Ended up in corporate America anyway. Vietnamese, New Yorker by choice, overthinker by nature. This is where I put the thoughts that don't fit in a spreadsheet. Science taught me how to question things. The city taught me everything else.
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An essay on parallel food cultures — and what happens when you zoom out far enough that the map starts to look familiar. The French-Japanese comparison has been made so often it’s practically a truism in culinary circles. But what if that same logic — applied with more geographic ambition — reveals two more pairs…
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There is a particular feeling that comes over me when I eat at a good Vietnamese restaurant in New York City. It is not hunger satisfied, exactly. It is closer to pride — the complicated, almost embarrassed kind that sneaks up on you before you can name it. It took me a while to understand…
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