Best Valentine's I've had for years!
Took a local boat (with a lady with teeth to turn dentists in their graves) to the floating market at Can Tho. It was fascinating watching the boats full of produce selling to shop and market traders and really felt like a real life experience of Vietnam. Not too many tourists either. Called in to a rice noodle factory and watched them being made- it only takes a minute to cook them once the mixture is made up and then they are left out in the sun for half a day and then noodled through the cutting machine. We tasted a speciality; rice noodle pancake with banana and sesame seeds. It was delicious!
Later caught the bus to Chau Doc and arrived at a lovely hotel by the river where we've just had cocktails and are booked in for a Valentine's dinner!
Can't fault your brother this year Grant!
Best things about Ho Chi Minh City: juice bar, American cake, Indian curry!
Holding a gift from the boat lady of flowers and I think grasshoppers made from water coconut leaves!
As well as fruit and veg at this time of year there are flowers too for "tet", the lunar new year.
Tell Neil that we needs to keep this up every year!
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