Com Tam is said to be one of Vietnamese top ten dishes but its origin has a sad story behind it as the name meant broken rice; an inferior quality, fractured rice favored by poor farmers when faced with a bad harvest. Whatever the case, Cơm Tấm is my very first meal in the pearl of the far east (Ho Chi Minh City that is) and the most famous in the city was said to be Cơm Tấm Ba Ghiền! Wanting to
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