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26 Sep
posted September 26, 2008 by Robyn Eckhardt
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We absolutely adore canh chua ca - Vietnamese sour fish soup - so devoting some of our Saigon trip to learning more about it (and eating a good amount of it) was no hard duty. Read the result in today's Wall Street Journal Asia 'Weekend Journal'. As sometimes happens, the amount of information the writer wanted to include in her piece exceeded the amount of space alloted the article. This was edited out, but I think it's the most interesting part of the whole thing:Sour soup is found in many Southeast Asian countries (sinigang in the Philippines, samlass m'chou moan in Cambodia, tomyam in Thailand, sayur asam in Indonesia), suggesting that it may ... read more