Ulf Svane

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This article was produced by National Geographic Traveller (UK). I’m on the back of a Vespa, on my way to meet a gangster. Not that I know it yet. Night has descended and rain is slapping the tarmac with a fervent drumming. We’re soaked to the bone as we pull up outside a restaurant called Oc Loan on a small side street in Ho Chi Minh City. Water troughs are set out like street stalls, displaying snails bigger than my fist, plump clams and glistening river prawns.