Olivers wrote:

Of course, there are those who claim that the quality of French cooking
was
rarely higher than one could find in Saigon in the early 60s (and a number
of popular Vietnamese dishes are clearly drawn from the French including a
generic beef and fried potato dish that's pretty scary.

Nuoc mam on powdered eggs? No.....


Just about the best French bakery (Ba Le) in Chicago is owned by
Vietnamese....

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Best
Greg