Long Biên, Hanoi – In scenes of uncharacteristic
heart-tickling sweetness, ruffian, yobbo and committed Trẻ Trâu, Nguyen Kẻ Xấu
returned home at approximately 6.15am following a long night of drug-spangled
criminal capers just to make his beloved Bà breakfast.
The self-proclaimed young buffalo had spent the night
cavorting around with a disparate band of Hanoi’s wasted youth, all sporting
various tasteful Playboy tattoos, cockatoo haircuts and a lust for life that
would make Iggy Pop turn in his eventual grave.
But while his gang of malnourished ragamuffins went home to
polish their gaudy bling, take topless selfies and presumably try not to cry
while failing to masturbate as the cheap meth they’d all enjoyed hours earlier
rendered their dicks a sorry sight of lifeless, flaccid jokes, Nguyen instead
used his amphetamine granted powers to whip up a delightful breakfast for his
dear Granny.
“It’s just amazing that he can walk in the door at this
hour, with all that energy, after such a long night studying with his friends,”
exclaimed an overjoyed Bà Nguyen, as her grandson frantically dashed around the
kitchen in a cold sweat.
“And then he goes and does something so sweet like this?”
she added.
Younger siblings of the adorable little gangster watched on
with a curious mix of horror and bemusement, immediately noticing their brother’s
engorged pupils and the way his jaw was going round like a washing
machine full of teeth.
“I’ve got to admit though, he’s not slept – just an hour
ago, he was probably pulling wheelies to get away from the cops and trying to
steal beer from Circle J, but his craftsmanship on that bánh cuốn is legit
masterful,” chuckled 16-year-old Nguyen Khỉ Táo Bạo as he watched the drugs
whirl his older brother around the family kitchen.
“I mean seriously, he can barely see right now – he’s been
cockeyed since he got in, but you’d barely know from the way he handles the
rice sheets, just stunning really.”
To go from the pounding bass of yet another night dancing to
Vinahouse in various states of undress to slaving selflessly away in the
kitchen for his family not only shows the tender side of Nguyen who, just four
hours earlier, was beating the living shit out of a karaoke waiter, but it also
reminds us all of the power of family bonds.
“To tell the truth, we were going to slap that boy into
shape,” admits beaming father, Nguyen Thiết Quyền.
“Between the mullet and the faux-hard-man tattoos, I always assumed we'd have to have him put down, but seeing him at work in
the kitchen this morning – I think I’ll save the beatings for another day,”
Nguyen confides.
When approached for comment on his benevolent behaviour, Nguyen
Kẻ Xấu simply spat at our reporter, saying he’d got “a hot bitch” upstairs and
that was who the food is for.
This is my favourite thing. I love you people.
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