Okay, the over-analysis probably could get linked into overthinkers without so much as a blink - feel free to drop it in there.
I've bookmarked these so I can come back to them at some point and pick up the bits which interest me. Like say, all of it. Although I'm more likely to just pick one or two dishes (and maybe a bit of rice and flatbread) since I have approximately one-quarter the number of people to cook for that Zack and Tifa do.
Oh, fun Vietnamese cooking tidbit - they do the salad too, but mostly lettuce, cucumber and various types of mint (there's one here in .au which is sold as "Vietnamese mint" or "sacred basil" or any number of different names - it's sort of minty-basily, and really adds a lot to a standard iceberg lettuce leaf) and a dipping sauce which is mostly lime juice, vinegar, garlic and chilli, with maybe a bit of fish sauce added for colour and flavour (nuoc mam is the stuff to look for by way of fish sauce). Hmmm... must do up a Vietnamese-style salad one of these days and see whether Himself can handle it with a curry...
S'cuse please, gotta run off and let my brain ramble in about sixteen different directions.