Ăn gì hông con?

You’ll learn

• Catch the Southern hông — the street version of textbook không
• Turn any sentence into a question with … hông? and answer with Dạ có / Dạ hông
• Order a bowl of hủ tiếu with the frame "Cho con một tô … nha"
• Use the chú ↔ con pair with an older man, and survive the spice question with "Con sợ cay lắm"

The story

Night in the same Quận 3 hẻm. Ben is hungry, and at the end of the alley glows a hủ tiếu cart under one yellow bulb. Chú Bảy has sold noodles here for thirty years — fast, friendly, one hundred percent Southern. Ben's textbook taught him "không". The cart is about to teach him "hông".