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Grand Café Evropa – now called Le Petit Beefbar Hotel W Prague, Grand Hotel Evropa, Václavské náměstí (Wenceslas Square) No. 826/25 There are places in Prague that fill me with nostalgia, and the café at Grand Hotel Evropa is one of those places. The old hotel,...

One of the Vietnamese dishes not easily found in Prague is Bánh xèo, which is a crispy, stuffed rice pancake, typically with pork, shrimp and bean sprouts. The name refers to the sound a thin layer of rice batter makes when poured into a hot frying pan. It's usually...

I haven't managed to find a restaurant in the city centre that serves Bánh cuốn, but a Google search showed me that a restaurant at SAPA specialises in this delicate dish of gently steamed rice flour and tapioca starch rolls. So I visited them yesterday and I was not...

I recently returned home after a month travelling around Vietnam, and while at my destination I would sometimes crave food that wasn't Vietnamese, now it's the other way around. It's probably quite common to feel this way. One of the dishes I particularly enjoyed was...