pousse-pousses

Updated: August 10, 2026

When the disputants take to backing up their arguments with blows from canes and bottles, the café proprietor unceremoniously bundles them into pousse-pousses, as rickshaws are called in Saigon, and sends them home.

E. Alexander (Edward Alexander) Powell - Where the Strange Trails Go Down: Sulu, Borneo, Celebes, Bali, Java, Sumatra, Straits: Settlements, Malay States, Siam, Cambodia, Annam,: Cochin-China