Friday, March 1, 2013

"Yummy" may mean more than you think

Today we went on a 41/2 hour foodies tour of Hoi An. Fantastic and lots of fun. Run by an ex-pat from Australia, this tour started at 7:30 AM with a market tour and proceeded to introduce us to Forty different Vietnamese foods. We followed him around town tasting the full spectrum from street foods to a special type of Hoi An noodle that uses water from a specific well and is cooked and sun dried 3 times before it is used ( photo of some drying).
These pictures tell only part of the story but should be in order. They include:
Saluting chickens and really fresh fish in the market
A lady cooking pancakes
The thick, jet black soup sold by a lady who also sells gasoline by the soda bottle full. (Black sesame soup)
The beautiful lady who makes a baguette speciality -remember that the French occupied for 100 years
The restaurant that was like a garage bay where we had the best pho ever(beef noodle soup with veggies)
The sample plate of spring rolls, wontons, and dumplings called white rose. We had these at the tasting room where we finished off the tour with about 10 restaurant type foods.
The variety of foods we tasted was incredible and the tastings were small enough that at the end of the tour we were full but not overstuffed.
We spent the afternoon chillin out an An Bang beach. an Bang is absolutely on the list for tomorrow as well.
What does "yummy" mean in Vietnamese you ask?? It means Horny.
Guess who still kept saying " this is so so yummy,"
















1 comment:

  1. Not fair. Now my stomach is grumbling. Except for the black soup, which really does beg the question- are you sure that is a sesame concoction and not a gasoline concoction? Please tell me it tasted better than it looked!

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