Thang Nguyen 555

Cultures on Collision Course

Tag: Peter Pham

  • I set foot on Cote d’Ivoire  summer 86. Abidjan looked like former Saigon. Both were built on French architecture template. Next door Ghanians got shinier skin. But hearing French spoken by the people there made me feel at home. In fact, so at home that I, upon discovering a Vietnamese restaurant in town, stopped in for lunch. And they did…