What was the point of cooking at home? Street food was always readily available. We were surrounded by the stuff. Not only that, but it was actually more expensive to cook at home than to eat the same stuff out on the street. Last, and most important, we simply couldn’t match the food on the street with anything we could rustle up at home. We weren’t good enough cooks, and we didn’t have the time. Vietnamese food, most of it, involves a lot of preparation. Sometimes it’s cooked quickly, sometimes it’s cooked for a long time, but in either case the preparation is always lengthy. And sometimes
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