Hence the two balls of rice a day?
Her mom and her had a ball of rice at breakfast and dinner. I believe her sister was a baby and nursing (trying to).
She said she was SO jealous of her two older brothers that got TWO balls of rice for breakfast. “But they had to work the neighbors’ fields to earn money - my mom and baby and I just had to beg.”
Her dad had been in the S. Vietnamese military. One day he was called into the police station. The family didn’t hear from him or about him for three years. They thought he was executed as the government wouldn’t tell them anything. He survived prison (6 years??) and they moved to the USA later on.