Greg Hackett

Wood smoke, big pot boiling meat, cool sea breeze: stroll down a narrow hem (laneway) off the busy main road, and discover an open...

Does this look good to you? It sure tastes good to me. See the bowl of sweet chilli dipping sauce? It packs a tickle more...

Sometimes the “old ways” are best: a cyclo rider and his passenger stop to buy fresh produce from a street fruit vendor’s hand cart....

She’ll be apples: crunchy, not too sweet, and delicious. Vietnam’s little green apples, táo, add “healthy” to the breakfast of iced coffee with sweetened...

Mantis shrimp/sea mantis are popular Vietnamese seafood. Locals call them tôm tít. There’s not a lot of meat in them but they are a cheap-ish treat,...

Sometimes the words can be more appetising than the pics. I don’t fake my food pics, what you see is what I eat . Here...

A view to the future: Ibis will be a perfect fit for the foreshore at Vung Tau, Vietnam. The popular weekend escape for Ho Chi...

Baiting tells sharks to come and eat. More sharks. Hungry sharks. Isn’t that obvious? As for recent “alarmist publicity” about shark attacks: mate, I would...

Growing up, my brother and I often sought refuge in Readers’ Digest books. I’ve found a hard cover classic here – add tropical weather and...

You don’t like eating vegies? Then come to South-East Asia: the salads are so good, sometimes I could treat the meat as the garnish....