Full-Circle Vietnamese Cooking

IF YOU WERE A SHOPPER at downtown Charleston’s old Meeting Street Piggly Wiggly during the 30-plus years that she worked there, you'd likely remember my mom, Thu-Ha—or as she was called there, Miss Ha.

That Piggly Wiggly gave my mom her first job after my parents, with three of their nieces and nephews and my two older brothers, fled Vietnam the years following the Fall of Saigon. She didn’t speak much English, but she could count