The bodies of hundreds of French combatants still lie at Dien Bien Phu, the site of the last battle of the Indochina War, in 1954. Unlike the United States, however, France has not sought to identify the soldiers to repatriate them.
As famous as pho (rice noodles soup with beef), spring rolls are also a dish imbued with the “Vietnamese national spirit”: if you see spring rolls somewhere, people from the S-shaped country must be around the corner.