Whilst travelling one tends to visit a lot more cafes and restaurants than one normally would back at home. Most of these end up being quickly forgotten, but there is one tiny restaurant in the ancient Vietnamese capital city of Hue that I clearly remember even after several years.
Initially the Lac Thien restaurant seemed to be just like any other Vietnamese restaurant sitting in a dilapidated building that should have perhaps been pulled down many years ago. Its only saving grace is that almost every other building in the city being in the same poor state of maintenance. Upon passing through the dingy entrance
I climbed the stairs up to the main restaurant on the second level. Upon entering I immediately noticed the white walls were covered in graffiti – absolutely covered. Each inscription would have been written by each one of the countless people to have eaten here over the years.
I wondered how it had all started….
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