You know what they say about never double dipping while eating Chinese Hot-Pot? Yeah, fuck that in Vietnam^^ I was now two times eating Hot-Pot with some locals and everyone was double dipping all the time 😅🙈
So today in the morning I was on a streetfood-tour with the girl whom I rent the apartment from and she told me a lot of the Vietnamese history while we were eating. It was very interesting, for instance that the capital of Vietnam changed several times over the centuries, sometimes because of a war-based strategy and sometimes just for the feng-shui of the Land.
I ate with her a noodlesoup with marinated porkstripes in it, the soup was a little bit cold because the shop just opened but it was still so freaking tasty! The whole soup was a bit sweet but not that strong and with the chilis I added it had a great balance between sweet and hot. I couldn’t finish it though because it was soo much noodles. You got the mountain of noodles on the side to the soup so you could always add some without overfilling the bowl. Thao, the girl who guided me did not just finished the bowl but she also ate it in such a speed! 😅 But that’s one thing I noticed already while I’m here, everybody is eating very fast and very much. I think they just eat two times a day but I’m not sure on that, I have to research this a bit more.
After the soup (which I forgot to take a picture from 🙈) we went to get a dessert. While we were walking Thao explained to me that those small stands like the one we were are just to specific times there, like the soups which the people eat for breakfast are just until ½ there and then they “close” or better said they put all the small chairs an tables on the side and put out their fireplaces^^ and for the lunch an dinner time it’s the same story.
The dessert I had was a cup full of sweet juice(I think) with lotusseeds, litchi, and jelly in it. It was pretty sweet but the lotusseeds compensated for it. Thao had a hot dessert, sticky rice with pomelo. After the dessert we saw the interior of an old Vietnamese building, which was kept like this for the tourists (0,50$ ticket price). We then drank a egg-coffee, which is simply black coffee with a ton of whipped egg white on top of it^^ and had a great view over a lake.
After making a short stop at the apartment, I went to the literature Temple which is really really beautiful. There are 86 stone panels on which the names of those people stand, who absolved a medicine study to encourage younger people to study as well.
I also was in the Ho Chi Minh Museum which has a loot of text in it. And I visited the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum, which can only be seen from the outside, there are always guards in front of it, who watch that nobody crosses the line on the ground.
There I met also some very nice people who talked a little bit with me and then asked if we can meet at the lake of yesterday. When we met there we went to their place, we drove with the motorcycle, which are pretty pricey, one ride from my apartment to their home was just 3800 VND which are about 1,30$.
We went out to eat Hot-Pot (which I also forgot to photograph 🙈) and it was soo delicious! The only problem I had was, that when I said I was full and wanted to make a small break for ½ minutes the were very sad and asked what’s wrong and that I just ate so little. So I had to eat more 😅 After the meal I was so unbelievably full and I just ate the half of what the girls ate, I really don’t know how Vietnamese people just can eat so freaking much without exploding 🙈
Well, in the end it was another really great day in Vietnam, I met some nice people, I ate some nice food and I learned more about the land and it’s culture 🙂
Oh yeah and I drank some sugarcane juice, which tastes awesome! 😍
