The Yem Tham became a fashion item more than 100 years ago.
By Seth Mydans | New York Times
DA NANG, VIETNAM – Cmdr. H. B. Le, the first Vietnamese-American to command a United States Navy destroyer, had just stepped ashore on a formal port call, making an emotional return to Vietnam for the first time since he fled as a young boy on a fishing boat at the end of the war in 1975.