What (more) are they eating?

[ernie_in_berkeley]

This HO thread contains some more discussion.

Obama and Bourdain........

All irony aside, it’s not restricted to Vietnam. The stories I’ve read about “spontaneous” presidential visits show the Secret Service arriving well in advance, scoping out the layout, exit routes and kitchen and carefully monitoring anything that the president eats, to the extent that the SS will instruct cooks specifically which pieces of meat the president will be eating. I’m not sure this would have been possible in a neighborhood noodle joint anywhere in the world.