I went to SERE school in the Navy but they didn’t tell us they ran 120 people thru the same area every week; there really wasn’t much to “feast on.”
I had lizard in Saigon at a place on Cach Mang thang tam, a large mostly Vietnamese place. It was wonderful.
A question.
I spent about about thirty months in RVN.
Only passing through the cities, never visited an actual restaurant, roadside sales of pomelo or melon, yes a treat.
But I have eaten with the Vietnamese (I could comfortably sit on my haunches as was the custom) and I can not recall ever eating or seeing anyone eat a large piece of meat?
Meat, not seafood, was cut in small pieces about the size of a pencil eraser and mixed with rice/vegetables/noodles.
Yes, move a few miles down the road and things change, even the language.
I saw on your page the connection to VietNam and recalled the small bits of meat, thought no way?