Especially when cars were fewer than they are now and Vietnam was more a developing nation than it is now, one of the more you-can't see-this-at-home sights were the yoke ladies.
They were (and still are) traveling sellers of fruit (usually only one kind at a time, depending on the season); sellers of bottles of water (by reputation the more reliable and safe is La Vie, bottled by Nestle)--or of postcards, trinkets and what have you. Whatever might sell.
Or she just carries whatever she has from here to there.
Or she may be carrying a small kitchen, basically, and for a price she will pour and cook some batter and give you a small waffle to eat as you walk around.
Some loads bounce more than others as she walks along.
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