HANOI, Vietnam — The Kitchen Gods were asked by the emperor’s assistant: “What curves gently?” The gods wore flowing robes fit for mandarins in a 17th-century royal court. But they…
HANOI, Vietnam — The Kitchen Gods were asked by the emperor’s assistant: “What curves gently?” The gods wore flowing robes fit for mandarins in a 17th-century royal court. But they…
Turning left at what we thought was a dead end in Hanoi’s Old Quarter, we hesitantly inched down Ngõ Trung Yên road, wide-eyed and excited, but with little idea of…