People often ask me how I started as a food blogger. The short answer: I made a recipe website to practice Vietnamese homemade cooking because it stunk. INSIDER’S GUIDE: THE BEST RESTAURANTS IN HANOI The long answer: It all started when my geek boyfriend (now a husband) bought me a piece of the web as a gift. Being a great introvert with a strong social backwardness, my homonymous domain was my way out for boring daily life and unfiltered complaints. That soon became boring. I went a few months, I got married and I moved out of my parents' house. He soon realized that he had no idea how to cook the Vietnamese traditional food he was used to as a child. I realized that to learn to cook, I had to start. I raised my sleeves and started at the age of 25 years. Luckily for me, I have a mother-in-law, a former restaurant cook, who loves to teach. Even though she mainly taught me dishes that her newly married son loved so I would not starve him, I managed to pick up many ta...