Today was the first day after the landing, I slept well and was ready to go. The flights were all good and the dinner on board was pretty good for a plane meal.
I started today with a huge bowl of noodle soup with beef in it. I tastes great! The restaurant“ was just a small stand on the sidewalk were an old lady cooked the noodles an filled everything in the bowls. Next to the stand there were some very small tables and stools. Another women who ordered the soup too, got it about 2/3 minutes earlier than me but she ate it so extremely fast that I still ate on it while double the time passed. I noticed this also the other times I ate today, Vietnamese people don’t just eat very much but the also eat very fast! I don’t get how they can eat so fast while still looking very calm and relaxed^^
The soup was delicious af especially after the exhausting flights and everything. On the table were also some sauces and limes to enhance the meal. I took a red hot sauce, some chili and the juice of a piece of lime. The broth was at the and very spicy and it really helped to get my nose free 😅
After visiting a lake and getting some good drinking water from a store nearby, I met some guys and we went into a café. They ordered a coffee for me and told me that the Vietnamese love their coffee. They also ordered a balloon full of laughing gas, which is somehow a thing down there, they said it would make you feel the music^^
The guys also brought me to a very small hotpot restaurant a bit away from the tourist center. The broth was very good and you could really taste the lemongrass out of it. The meat was pretty chewie and as I learned after the meal, it was tiger meat O.o
It was also pretty expensive, so if someone wants to go eat with you, better ask what he wants to order an how much it’ll cost^^
After some more sightseeing in the citadel of Hanoi and learning some historical background of the city, I went to a café to get an ice crushed green tea. After that I went back home to get my insect spray, it got slowly darker and the mosquitoes were starting to fly (>.<)
