Ho Chi Minh City

Every alley in Saigon has its broken rice, a dish once called the rice of poor homes and now sold from early morning until late at night. The stories here also follow hủ tiếu Nam Vang, a noodle soup that carries the name of the Cambodian capital, and rise from the Tây Ninh plain to the summit of Bà Đen Mountain, 986 meters up, where a copper Lady Buddha stands above the clouds.