A foreign man eats ‘hu tieu’ (Vietnamese rice noodle soup) at a sidewalk food stall in Vietnam, awkwardly crouching on a low plastic stool that appears too small for his tall frame, in undated images that have gone viral on Vietnamese social media. The images, shared widely on Facebook pages, show a man estimated by commenters to be nearly two meters tall sitting at a curbside makeshift eatery. His long legs were folded beneath him in what appears closer to a kneeling posture than the casual squat familiar to local diners. “Tourist has to kneel in front of Vietnamese food,” wrote Tran Mi, adding a laughing emoji, while another user, Quang Anh Nguyen, joked: “That must come from a great craving [for Vietnamese food] to sit like that.”Others mixed humor with sympathy. Vietnam’s street dining culture is built around low tables and plastic stools that encourage a compact, crouched posture, a setup second nature to locals but often challenging for taller visitors.

Source: Tuoitre News January 27, 2026 08:56 UTC