It’s been a few days, mostly of lost or unsecured connections, but I’ll give this post a whirl! Today – we enjoy the culture and particularly the interesting choice of cuisine which continues to present itself.
On board our boat somewhere in Halong Bay, I enjoyed a lunch of squid cake, snail in bamboo shoot, mussels, and braved the lichee wine tasting. The snail was horrendously rubbery and I couldn’t properly masticate it. The squid cake – good and better with chilis. The mussels were excellent, and the sip of wine tolerable. I am mostly trying it all – save the dishes with large shrimp.
Breakfast – as always, savoring the passion fruit daily. I don’t know the fruit Panita and I tried, but it was grape-like in texture, semi-sweet, and a lovely prickly rind which was fun to peel. We’ll try to translate that later. The Vietnamese coffee – deliciously sweet. Enough to send us on our journey of discovery today!
I shan’t go into detail on our weather as even the cold front sweeping the nation makes the BBC news. Suffice it to say I’m taking a scarf in the event of a gentle breeze.
Can’t wait to hear more about your adventures!
Oh – you know you will!