So here we are with some more food photos. We've been eating a lot of food here so that's mostly what you see in the photos! We ventured around the corner into an area which was a bit euro trashy if you ask me. Actually, it reminded me a lot of Amsterdam. Lots of white folk, lots of artificial Asia and tourist trap type stuff. Anyway, we went into this dodgy looking restaurant - not dodgy in the good, poor people eat here and this is good food, way, but dodgy in the we just can't be bothered because we know cheap Europeans will come in here and eat eventually. Really though it still wasn't that bad. Chaz got this lovely number - some sort of eggplant, onion and a tonne of garlic combo. Looked alright, I don't eat eggplant though so I can't say one way or the other.
I had another strange beef in tomato stuff soup stew type thing which you can see above. It tasted fine and I actually enjoyed it although most of the beef was a massive hunk of inedible fat. I'm pretty sure it messed with my stomach in a bad way though. I washed it down with a 500ml Saigon for around 55c though so that felt pretty good (shown below). We left this joint soon after though.
I think it was that night that the little guy wasn't feeling well so we actually ate room service. Below is my chicken rice soup which was quite tasty and extremely filling. Then you'll see Chaz's spaghetti bolognese. Strangely they do really good spaghetti here for some reason?
In a crazed fit of tourism we went and visited both w catholic church and the HCMC post office. I felt like a regular 60 year old retiree for a while there :P this was little Dan after triumphantly climbing the steps to some statue outside the post office. He keeps telling us how hot it was there every time he sees these.
Not a great photo I know, but I just liked this sunset the other day.
This next pic shows one of the many aerobics sessions that goes on at the park across from our hotel every day. They actually start around 5 in the morning and have a few morning sessions then start again around 5.30 in the evening. People just seem to join in. There's this flashy one where the leader stands on a big table and then there are some other smaller ones hidden away under the trees. Actually there is a lot of exercise going on over there most of the day. A little part of me likes to think romantically that this is a remnant of the more disciplined and serious communist era when maybe activity like this was compulsory. I don't know if that is true though. I also get this constant reminder of when mr burns makes all the SNPP workers start exercising at the plant. "6 hi-ya-ya". Love it. Little Dan also loves going to the park for a run. I'm sure Chaz will post some of the photos of me and Dan running through 23/9 somewhere else.
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