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  HO CHI MINH CITY  – Mrs. Kim Phuong’s snail shop serves at “unlike any other” hours but has been attracting customers for 25 years, having appeared in an American culinary series. Every day at 9 o’clock, Ms. Phuong delivers goods to the alley on Co Bac Street, District 1, selling snails of all kinds, “a dish not many people in Saigon serve in the morning”. Ms. Phuong started her daily work at 12pm, drove down to the Binh Dien seafood wholesale market, District 8, to select all kinds of snails for sale the next day. “Going home to clean, prepare a circuit until 8 am, then sell the goods. When I was too tired to stay up at night, I had to stop selling,” said Ms. Phuong. Mrs. Phuong, the owner of the snail shop, is preparing dishes for customers. From 9 o’clock, her snail shop began to rattle the pan. The scent of fried snails, grilled snails and the smell of coal smoke spread throughout the alley. The shop “is still the same” with a trolley with about 13-15 bask...