Rice is critical to Vietnam. It is critical as a food supply and as a source of innumerable rice-based culinary dishes. Flat crispy rice crackers, rice wrapping paper, crispy rice croutons, flat soft rice sheets, rice noodles of all types,…
Bahnar village, Central Viet Nam ~ “Village of children.”
Ever since we visited the National Museum of Ethnology in Hanoi months ago, we wanted to go and see the majestic tall houses of the indigenous people of the Central Highlands. There are 54 minorities in Vietnam and many of…
Rural Cambodia
In the rice paddies, farmers transplant the young rice seedlings Wait! Are we in Nicaragua or Cambodia? Classic thatch wall, house on stilts. This is Cambodia, but it could be rural Nicaragua (Rosita)… “same same”, but different. Note the huge…