To kill dust mites and remove allergens in sheets and blankets, Thorne says wash with hot water.

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Even street food is being gentrified: at Quan An Ngon in Ho Chi Minh city, bejewelled ladies wash down their stuffed pancakes and hot-and-sour soup with sips of chardonnay.

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