Food

Today has mostly been about food!

I want on a lunch time 'Food on Foot' tour which took us around the Old Quarter - so pretty much on the doorstep of my hotel. The tour lasted about 3 hours, so it makes for one of the longest lunches I think I've had.

There were 3 other people on the tour (all Australians) and we ate a ton of food!

Some of the restaurants we went to I'd either already eaten at, or had the dishes that they specialised in. However, that wasn't a negative thing at all, and I did get to try a lot of new stuff. I think the highlights were:

• Trying frog (Vietnamese jumping chicken) for the first time. Tastes like chicken.
• Sampling food from Hué - very different to food from Hanoi.
• Having bia hoi with a group with proper snacks.
• Trying some lethal rice wine with all kind of infusions (though not snake).
• Having ca phe with whipped egg yolk and condensed milk. Sort of a Vietnamese sweet cappuccino - I'm surprised Starbucks aren't all over this.

I think the only real negatives were that we ate to much, and also because a lot of food in Vietnam has fresh rice noodles at its core - we had a lot of noodles!

In a complete change of tack, for dinner I had a fantastic meal at a French restaurant called La Badiane. No little plastic chairs and tables here! I had the 5 course 'menu degustation' and it was fantastic. An extremely civilised way to end my Vietnamese eating experience for this trip.

 

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