Barbara Adam

Barbara Adam is a contributing writer at Serious Eats.
Location: Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam and Melbourne, Australia
Expertise: Street Food, Vietnamese Food

Experience

Barbara Adam is an Australian writer and editor based in Ho Chi Minh City and Melbourne.

She has worked as a journalist and editor in Australia, Singapore, Vietnam, and Thailand. Her experience covers real-time news reporting, newspapers and magazines, working alongside and mentoring journalists who are writing in their second (or third or fourth) language. She and her husband, Vu, run the street food tour company Saigon Street Eats, and its offshoot, Saigon Supper Club.

Barbara has also collaborated on two books: Vietnam: 100 Unusual Travel Tips and a Guide to Living and Working There, and Fodor’s Vietnam guidebook.

About Serious Eats

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