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title: "Vegetarian, Spicy, Allergies: Reading a Vietnamese Menu"
description: "Four notes for vegetarians, people avoiding heat, and people allergic to shellfish, fish or peanuts: telling the kitchen, what is in what, the spice scale."
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The Bếp Rơm journal

# Topic: vegetarian, spicy, allergies

> Four notes for vegetarians, people avoiding heat, and people allergic to shellfish, fish or peanuts: telling the kitchen, what is in what, the spice scale.

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Four notes for vegetarians, people avoiding heat, and people allergic to shellfish, fish or peanuts: telling the kitchen, what is in what, the spice scale.

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