{"id":1136,"date":"2016-11-28T10:49:56","date_gmt":"2016-11-28T10:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fiftyfourandcounting.co.uk\/wordpress\/to-be-a-vegetarian-in-vietnam\/"},"modified":"2016-11-28T10:49:56","modified_gmt":"2016-11-28T10:49:56","slug":"to-be-a-vegetarian-in-vietnam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fiftyfourandcounting.co.uk\/wordpress\/to-be-a-vegetarian-in-vietnam\/","title":{"rendered":"To be a Vegetarian in Vietnam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vietnamese people are generally slim with very clear skin complexions in the young and weathered faces in the older generation.<\/p>\n<p>Not being a vegetarian for Vietnamese is really easy as they eat everything! And I mean everything! From poultry, meat and fish to mice, snakes and dogs!.. in fairness to the select few.<span id=\"selectionBoundary_1480320811568_465915646768434\" class=\"rangySelectionBoundary\" style=\"line-height: 0; display: none;\">\ufeff<\/span><\/p>\n<p>To be fair though all the food is fresh, freshly killed to order in the local markets.<\/p>\n<p>But this really is a country where you can easily be a vegetarian&#8230; such vast selections of fruit, vegetables, tofu and rice exist in abundance.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fiftyfourandcounting.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/img_3414.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1135\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/fiftyfourandcounting.co.uk\/wordpress\/to-be-a-vegetarian-in-vietnam\/img_3414\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/fiftyfourandcounting.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/img_3414.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"2448,3264\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.2&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPhone 6&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1479588131&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.15&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;1000&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0588235294118&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"img_3414\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/fiftyfourandcounting.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/img_3414-225x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/fiftyfourandcounting.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/img_3414-768x1024.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/fiftyfourandcounting.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/img_3414.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2448\" height=\"3264\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1135\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fiftyfourandcounting.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/img_3414.jpg 2448w, https:\/\/fiftyfourandcounting.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/img_3414-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/fiftyfourandcounting.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/img_3414-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2448px) 100vw, 2448px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nIn the West we really live very sterile lives purchasing only packaged, sanitised, selected products, but in truth very limited.<\/p>\n<p>In Vietnam the country is teeming with food.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As we&#8217;ve travelled around this amazing and wonderful country we were never too far from fresh fruits and vegetables often freshly from the ground and trees.<\/p>\n<p>Street traders everywhere have customers buying daily produce to feed families, trying to make a small living and in many cases just trying to better their lives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vietnamese people are generally slim with very clear skin complexions in the young and weathered faces in the older generation. Not being a vegetarian for Vietnamese is really easy as they eat everything! And I mean everything! From poultry, meat and fish to mice, snakes and dogs!.. in fairness to the select few.\ufeff To be&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1134,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[128,24,70,20,64],"tags":[130,129,79],"class_list":["post-1136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-food","category-healthy","category-people","category-travel","category-vietnam","tag-healthy-food","tag-vegetarian","tag-vietnam"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/fiftyfourandcounting.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/img_3411.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7ZU0a-ik","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fiftyfourandcounting.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fiftyfourandcounting.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fiftyfourandcounting.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fiftyfourandcounting.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fiftyfourandcounting.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fiftyfourandcounting.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fiftyfourandcounting.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fiftyfourandcounting.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fiftyfourandcounting.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fiftyfourandcounting.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}