It was a link to a list of life hacks, simple tricks designed to make one's life easier: use duct tape to open stuck lids, keep floppy boots upright with pool noodles, paper-clip the end of a tape roll so you can find it easily.
Pho is a Vietnamese beef noodle soup in which rice noodles and paper-thin slices of beef bathe in a rich broth, scented with a heady bouquet of fresh ginger, star anise and cinnamon.
Noodle dishes and soups like pho bo, an oxtail broth with rice noodles and paper-thin slices of rare beef, are excellent, as is chao tom, the snack of grilled shrimp paste wrapped around a stalk of sugar cane.
Rice, whether as grains, noodles or rice paper, seems to have a brilliant way of absorbing just enough dressing, making sure that nothing is lacklustre by the time you unpack your blanket and pour the first glass of rosé.
You can hire a tuk-tuk for around £9 a day, or £6 half a day, and take an excursion into the lush countryside to see artisanal producers make incense, cotton kramas (traditional Cambodian checked scarves), rice paper, noodles, and rice wine.
Then you see people in their forties buying cup noodles, tins and toilet paper.
At convenience stores, the first things to disappear were the instant noodles and the toilet paper, then rice balls, bread, and batteries.
The menu includes items like shrimp crepe; sauteed beef with garlic and lemon grass; and shrimp brochette, grilled shrimp on a bed of angel hair rice noodles, wrapped with rice paper and served with nuoc mam sauce.
We stopped for a while in the playground at the corner of Mulberry & Spring & watched a lady stir some chicken-noodle soup in a paper cup..
Among the favorites: fresh spring rolls, with a fat shrimp as well as pork, egg and noodles in a rice-paper wrapping; shrimp paste wrapped around sticks of sugar cane, grilled and served over rice vermicelli; charbroiled marinated pork meatballs with lettuce for wrapping.
A spring roll is a fresh and healthy dish made of prawn, pork, vegetable and vermicelli noodle wrapped in rice paper and dipped in peanut sauce.
