Once when I was in Thai Binh, someone asked me in Vietnamese about my "nương". I froze for a second. "Why's he asking me about barbecue (nướng)?" Seeing my confusion, he burst out laughing: "Ah, I ...
“At first, I thought he didn’t speak Vietnamese fluently. It turned out he spoke with a central region accent; the one who didn’t speak Vietnamese fluently was me,” said an online commenter, laughing.