The Thirsty: Southeast Asia & Southeast Asians
‘Water’ is the concept of people who have gathered near a body of water to grow rice for one another, and founding a stable community, sharing rain and drought, plenty and famine, peace and war — its basic meaning, has come to designate ‘the homeland, the country, the nation.’
Jimmy Thong
Makerspace Teacher, Code Coach, Amateur Home Cook, Writer
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Passage
for Nguyễn Quí Đức
What Professor Um means to us
When war washed over Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos, our families found themselves like driftwood, fleeing sodden and splintered, to countries…
Hoang and Jimmy’s roundtable review of The Third Wife
(We’re at the Sydney Film Festival 2019 watching films every day until our eyes bleed. Spoilers aplenty.)
CAAMFest 37: Seadrift (review)
You could close your eyes somewhere between the short film Jane, and Seadrift, the documentary that follows, and swear you were watching…
The Unscripted, Stumbled-Upon Genius of the Hòn Dấu Resort
The most absurd resort space in Vietnam’s worst beach town might be a stroke of recreational genius.
Thankfully, I Got Scammed in Vietnam, Too.
Sometimes getting scammed is the best thing that can happen to you.
Vietnam's Golden Bridge is a Social Media Hit. What Now?
The Golden Bridge of Bà Nà Hills, Đà Nẵng, Vietnam has a chance to usher in a new era of tourism development, but will it?
Jimmy Thong Tran’s review of Crazy Rich Asians
Spoiler alert: Crazy Rich Asians is not the movie you think it’s going to be about.
These Sour Noodles Will Have Their Day
A relatively obscure variation of Phở popular in the far north of Vietnam has all the makings of a crossover hit in the West.
Phở Heterodoxy on the High Plateau
Phở Cao Bằng and Cultural Heterdoxy in Vietnam's Northern Highlands
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