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It’s 7am in southern Vietnam, the air cool and crisp as Saigon awakes and thinks about what to eat. And it thinks about pho.

The dining area is on the first floor of his Tardis-like restaurant, but guests enter at street level, squeezing past the open kitchen that occupies most of the ground floor.

Female street vendors with bicycles ... chatting over bowls of steaming pho (rice noodle soup with bone broth, meat and herbs). Vietnam's capital has come a long way since the end of the Vietnam ...