I've never been to Vietnam before. Have you? Do you have any advice?
___________________________________________________
I've now added a few pictures from the Conference in Hanoi. We're moving on to Ho Chi Minh City now.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
9 comments:
I thought the snake set meal was quite nice, actually: snake spring rolls, snake curry and snake wine. And I drank one glass of wine from a bottle that also contained about 15 snakes.. and a dead blackbird. Mmm.
Well I was going to forward these pics to my vegetarian daughter but am having second thoughts now. The thought of eating a dead blackbird might have serious side effects on her digestive processes.
But the rest of the food looks good. Are those carved vegetables I see?
I'm told I should check that the snake didn't have any cuts before it was put in the wine, otherwise the wine will be toxic. Not quite sure how I check for that, so maybe I'll leave the snake wine. And I'm not sure I fancy a dead blackbird.
I wonder what's in the beer?
There were indeed carved vegetables on the plates of food, and they looked very nice. Unfortunately someone greedier than me ate them before I could.
hmm . .. have we yet discovered whether it is polite or not to eat the carved vegetables?
Apparently the answer is you shouldn't eat them - just admire them :-(
Hey Scott,
I found your post because you TAGGED it man! I found it here by searching for glocall on technorati
Hmmm, that was some of the best snake I'd ever had. The snake venom bia hoi was the best!
Hope you guys enjoyed the rest of the show in HCMC. I'm back home in Abu Dhabi. Latahs ...
When I was in Vietnam I asked some of the participants about superstitions in their culture. For example, I asked whether there were lucky or unlucky numbers in their culture. Here are some of the answers I got. The first is from a teacher who is originally from Greece:
Lucky and unlucky numbers in Greece
OMG! The snake!!!
Post a Comment