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🍜 The $6 Meal That Made History — Obama & Bourdain in Hanoi
📅 May 23, 2016 — Hanoi, Vietnam
In May 2016, a remarkable photo went viral showing President Barack Obama perched on a rickety blue plastic stool, knocking back a beer across from celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain. The two met at a small restaurant in Hanoi to eat bún chả and discuss everything from sneaking out for beers to engaging diplomatically with nations like Cuba and Iran. Total bill for the meal: $6. Bourdain paid.  💸
🏠 The Restaurant
Anthony Bourdain dined with President Obama at Bún Chả Hương Liên, a family-run, decades-old restaurant in Hanoi, Vietnam.  The restaurant is located in the Old Quarter of Hanoi — small, working-class, set off a narrow street. The Secret Service was reportedly not thrilled with the choice of venue due to minimal exits and tight space — but they persevered.  😅
🍖 What They Ate
Bún chả is a beloved local specialty of Hanoi — charcoal-grilled pork patties and pork slices in a room-temperature dipping sauce, served with rice noodles and herb garnishes.  They washed it down with cold Hanoi beer 🍺 — straight from the bottle.
📺 How It Happened — Super Secret Planning
The White House had reached out to Bourdain about a year before the dinner. It was super classified — his camera crew didn’t know until two days earlier, the network didn’t know, and even the State Department may not have known.  The meal was filmed as the Season 8 premiere of CNN’s Parts Unknown, aired on September 25, 2016. 🎬
🇻🇳 The Impact on Vietnam
The next day after the meal, Bourdain became instantly recognizable on the streets of Hanoi. Vietnamese locals on scooters would point at him shouting “Bun cha! Mister Bun Cha!” Young Vietnamese approached him with tears in their eyes, shocked and proud that the President of the United States had come and eaten not pho or spring rolls — but bún chả, their proud local Hanoi specialty, on a low plastic stool in a working-class restaurant.  🥹
🏛️ The Table Becomes a Museum Piece — March 2018
The owners of Bún Chả Hương Liên decided to preserve the moment by encasing the table in glass. Even the stools, plates, chopsticks, and beer bottles were included, creating a makeshift museum right inside the restaurant. 
Bourdain shared a photo of it on Instagram with the caption: “Not sure how I feel about this.”  😂
The restaurant also added a new menu item called “Suat an Obama” — meaning “Order like Obama.”  🍽️
💔 After Bourdain’s Passing — June 2018
When Anthony Bourdain passed away in June 2018, Obama tweeted a photo of the two men drinking beers at that very restaurant, with the caption: “This is how I’ll remember Tony. He taught us about food — but more importantly, about its ability to bring us together. To make us a little less afraid of the unknown. We’ll miss him.”  😢
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11 Comments
now that's respect, we'll deserved
Communists respect Obama. He is one of their own.
Is that bourdain or Epstein
Why?
Obama trafficked children from Vietnam! What do you think the $30,000 of "hotdogs" email was about??
No conspiracy, just hidden darkness that will soon come to light! 🇺🇸
Weak!!!!
Why would you celebrate a guy who abandoned his children?
Its crazy the number of idiots in these comments that think it has to do with Obama, its seriously sad. Anthony even in death is a way bigger star around the world than Obama ever thought of being. Anthony Bourdain is a god in the world of restaurants/cooking, man had friends in both low and high places from celebrity chefs to food stall venders in third world countries.
POS. Divided America.
Most overrated President. Didn't do shit!
Respect