yummy – Seite 2 – A travelling small human

Day 20

Today we just relaxed, we slept in, two of the French guys went with me in the city while the others were still sleeping. First we went to a small café to drink an iced coffee with milk which is like the typical Vietnamese coffee and it’s really sweet and very strong.We walked then around and searched very long for a cheap restaurant, because we somehow got to a place were all the high-class hotels were and therefore the prices of the restaurants were all a bit higher. But we finally found one and had a pretty good lunch there. I just forgot to take a picture of it, it was like the bad food from yesterday in waay better, rice with a bbq chicken and it was warm and very tasty 😍
After that we walked some more around the lake we went back to our hotel to meet the other two. We bought a bubble tea on the way home which was really yummy.

We met the others and decided to eat dinner at the hotel because they had a special offer with a great variety of food and free beer for 70k. The food was very delicious and we got some fresh Mango too. The thing with the eggs you can see on the picture is a omelette rolled with seaweed, it sounds strange but was really tasty! And the curry with the eggs had some great beef in it, you can see see the transparent fat pieces on the meat, they were really delicious and the meat was really tender and the sauce was kinda sweet, it tasted great!

After the meal we just went to our room, chilled and talked. I can really recommend the hotel we’re staying in, it’s called the “Vietnam Home Hostel”. It’s a bit hidden but the guys at the reception are really nice and help you with everything and the rooms are clean and nice too.

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Day 19

After a Short stay in another City, where I had enough time to visit the beach real fast and take one/two pics, a bus change and a wheel change I finally arrived in Da Lat at about 11/12 am. I met there then with the French guys who took a different bus to Da Lat. We ate some rice with chicken which was okay but not that great, the chicken was even cold and it costed 50k…

We then went to our hotel, checked in and chilled a little bit because we were all tired of the bus ride. We the got a little snack in form of a Banh Mi, which is like a sandwich with different fillings depending on the the cooks of each stand. It was very tasty and just costed 15k. We then restet some more, went later to eat something for dinner near the restaurant. We ate those rice papers with egg and stuff on it, which were also very good 😋

We walked a bit around and visited the city a bit and then went back to the hotel to chill and just talk a bit and then went then to sleep pretty fast. It’s great to finally have some company for some days 🙂

Here are some scenes from bus ride:

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Day 18

Today Bon picked me up and invited me to a great feast with a part of his family, not his wife and kids, but his brother and his brothers and sisters in law and more. It was very nice to see how they all eat together and the food was really really great. Before the big meal they burned some papersuits as well as paper money, Thao, the girl I rented the room from tolde that they burn all this stuff as symbolism to gift it to the dead ones so they have new suits and money and stuff in the Heaven. They also print iPhone and really everything on paper so you can burn it 😀
As far as I noticed eat the woman and kids separate from the men, but they still came over some times and talked with them. They also all drank beer, so there’s no separation there^^
After the great meal we sat there some while and then went to Bons home. I talked with one of his daughters, her english name is Alice, and she could talk very good English, especially for a 13 year old!
She had to translate everything for the others and had to ask me everything the others wanted to know 😅🙈
But is was very nice to talk with her/them and to spend just some time with a normal Vietnamese family 🙂
After that Bon drove me back to my hotel where I booked a ticket for the night bus to Da Lat and went to a nearby shop to get a new belt because mine broke apart.I had an hour until the belt should be ready and before I had to be back at my hotel, so I went to the city to buy some last souvenirs.
After that I got my belt and went to the Hotel where a small bus picked me up and brought me to the place where the sleeping bus would pick me up.

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Day 17

First I ate a chickennoodlesoup at a restaurant near my Hotel, somehow the pictures I took from it are not there anymore… It was very nice and I actually made it for the first time to eat everything up with ease 😅
After that, Bon picked me up and drove me to the Tailor. The shirts fitted perfectly, just the Suit had a little short arms, but that was no problem, a few hours later I could come back and they changed it.
I later ate a Duck rice soup at a small stand at the street. In the soup were all the parts of a Duck, like the lungs, the Airways and other stuff. And I really have to say that ducklungs are really tasty 😅 They are those dark spongy parts you can see in the picture^^

After that I went again to the ancient part of the town and to a café because it rained, I drank there a ginger tea which was strong as hell, it literally burned my throat Everytime I took a sip^^

It turned evening and that meant it was food festival time! 😋
I got some food of Russia, Sri Lanka and Greece. Everything was very tasty although the Russian dish was a little bit basic with just some battered and fried fish (red snapper) and a bechamel sauce with it.

Today was also the day of the “Earth Hour”, an international festival where all the lights are shut down for one hour to raise attention for the climate change that needs to be stopped. It was very nice to see that all the young people also took part in it and build some nice things like a big 60+ (which is the symbol of the Earth Hour) out of candles or other nice things.

In that hour all of them were partying and there was music and karaoke and dancing everywhere, it was really cool to stand there and see all the cheerful atmosphere. I even got to see some real nice streetdance performance, but sadly the police came and said that they had to leave because they formed too many people around them and because of the food festival they did not want any big crowds.
I got to talk to the dancers and they wrote me their name and Facebook page and even a YouTube video I can watch, if I have time I really have to watch it! The crew name is “Nosher Crew”

A trailer video of the crew I found on YouTube!

When the Earth Hour was over I intentionally wanted to go home, but a French girl spoke to me and told me about a bar where she works, that I could meet there some nice peoples and that I could get unlimited drinks for the whole night (until 11:30pm) with just 100k VND which are like 4-5$. So I gave it a shot because I really had nothing to do and meeting some people is always nice^^
I met there four French guys who are in about my age. They told me that Hue, the town I intentionally wanted to go next, isn’t that big of a deal and that I really don’t miss something if I don’t go there. They also told me that they were heading to Da Lat and that they wanted to do a motorcycle tour from there to Ho Chi Minh City. They offered me to come with them and so I cancelled my bus ride to Hue and going to Da Lat tomorrow ^-^

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Day 15

Today I went to a Hill full of Temples called “Chùa Non Nước”. I went there by bicycle which I could use for free from the Hotel as I said. It’s very nice to ride the bike to this place, the street is very calm and it’s only about 15 mins away. At the hill there are many shops who offer you to park your bicycle/motorbike for free in exchange to look through their items when you’re back from the Hill. At the hill is a elevator which can bring you up to the temples if you’re to lazy or can’t climb the stairs, it costs 15k VND. The Temples at the mountain are awesome a hell! There are also some big caves which cool you a little down from the sweating climb up and there’s a way to the “Heaven Gate” which is one of the highest points of the hill,the view is awesome! Although you have to really climb to get there because at some point there are no more stairs. But it’s pretty fun to climb up there and the view is really worth it. There are about 5 Temples or so and they are all so beautiful, you really wonder how the managed to get all the statues and everything up there. The climb itself costs 40k for adults, which is pretty good. If you go there and want to see everything and take your time, you should plan at least 3h. I had about 2½ h and I had to kinda hurry because I had to be at my hotel at time so I won’t miss my bus to Hoi An. It wasn’t like I had to rush through the temples but if you want to see everything with calmness and walk slowly through the temples you definitely need some more time.

After the climb down I drove back to my hotel, packed my stuff and went to the place I booked a shuttle bus to Hoi An, which was like 5 min away. I can really recommend my Hotel, the owner is very nice and helps you with everything, you get a bicycle and laundry service for free and the location is also pretty good, with 10 min to the beach and 10 min taxi drive to the city. And it’s really cheap.
The drive to Hoi An was pretty fast with nothing special on the way.
Hoi An itself is awesome from the first impression! The small river through the city looks very nice, the streets are full of local markets and souvenir shops, there is a pretty nice nightmarket and at night there are so many colors! Also at the time I’m here there’s the “international food festival” with stands of countries from all over the world with chefs who cook awesome food for you! *-*

The festival goes until the weekend and everyday they cook a different national food, it’s like heaven for me!
I ate fried seafood noodles from the Malaysian stand and a Russian fish soup called „Ukha“ stand, both were really tasty! Sadly it’s a little expensive with 60k per plate and the plates are not that big^^ which is okay because you want to try everything but it makes it a little more expensive. But it’s totally worth it to spend there some money 😋😍

Vietnam 2017

Day 1

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 (>.<)