Where Love Is Served
What lingers in your memory after a good meal?
The sweetness, the bitterness, or the quiet heat of spice?Perhaps, it is not the flavor itself that endures, but the feeling it leaves behind.
Author
The bold, unmistakable flavors of Central Vietnamese cuisine shaped my voice long before I learned how to tell my own story.
Beyond the Table
Food lingers in memory long after a meal has ended. Beyond sweetness, bitterness, or the quiet heat of spice, it preserves the presence of those once gathered around the table. Through individual taste, each dish unfolds as a layered narrative shaped by culture, experience, and time. Where Love Is Served explores how ordinary meals become sites of memory and identity — subtle spaces where belonging is formed and quietly remembered.
My Stories
Sweet Glutinous Rice Balls (Chè Trôi Nước)
There are feelings that cannot be spoken aloud. They simply exist, like the sweetness hidden inside a glutinous rice ball.
Red Beans on a Night
There are things that do not fade with time, only with the moment you stop trying to erase them.
Anthony Bourdain said:
Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown, season 4, episode 4, “Vietnam,” aired October 19, 2014, on CNN.“The journey to happiness and wisdom begins with a seat on the street, eating something out of a bowl that you’re not exactly sure what it is.”
Where Love Is Served.
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