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Sugarcane Juice

Hue, Vietnam – People often complain about the pollution in Bangkok and New York.  I’ve never noticed.  Yet for some reason in Hue, I felt as though my lungs were filled with dust.  This must be how those complainers feel in my beloved cities.   After a day of walking and biking in the hot sun, I needed to stop somewhere, anywhere and that where ended up being a sugarcane stand on the corner of the street.   The place only sold three things sugarcane juice, coffee and loose cigarettes.  Groups of mostly men sat around drinking their coffees and juices and smoking their cigarettes.  My lungs were in no state for cigarettes, but the sugarcane juice looked perfect.   The juice is extracted from sugarcane branches by putting it through a grinder over and over until there’s nothing left but a bunch of dry fibers.   A bowl below collects the juice, which is poured over ice before being set on my table.  It’s perfect.  So cool, so sweet, so freshing.

Juicing Sugarcane