Wow, as we have mentioned to some of you we have been eating some of the best food so far on this trip in Hoi An, Vietnam...well maybe even some of the best food in our lives!
We would like to thank some of our friends we have met along the way and local travelers for making this all possible...with out you we may have found ourselves with less than excellent food in our bellies and bigger holes in our wallets.
We would like to thank some of our friends we have met along the way and local travelers for making this all possible...with out you we may have found ourselves with less than excellent food in our bellies and bigger holes in our wallets.
Upon arriving in Hoi An we ran into one of our friends and fellow travelers we have run into throughout the trip named Mira. She was getting ready to leave Hoi An when we ran into her but she had to show us this local food stall where she had been eating most of her meals before she left. We eagerly agreed because sometimes when you first arrive in a new place you can make rash decisions about food and eat the wrong things which can really off set the tone for that new place.
We were told to try the local grilled fish infused with lemon grass and wrapped in a bananna leaf (Ca nuong la chuoi)...hands down the best thing we have EVER put in our mouths. This thing was like Christmas, New Years, and all 28 birthdays concentrated, and gift wrapped up in one single bananna leaf! Wow thank you Lee for setting the tone for Hoi An to be the culinary highlight of our trip..lives by one dish! (followed very closely by the fried wontons topped, or rather piled high, with sauteed vegetables and grilled shrimp)
We then proceeded to wash this down with freshly squeezed/smashed sugar cane juice. This tastes like a mixture of watermelon, lime and the most refreshing thing you have ever sipped on blended in one magical drink called sugar cane juice! Not only is it highly delicious, but highly nutritios. We did a search and found that sugar cane, when not over processed and bleached has some amazing health qualities! Such as improving digestion, purifying the blood, regulating bloodsugar and curing jaundice among other things!
We also were able to locate the best beer in Vietnam which is called Viet A aka Fresh Beer aka Bia Tuoi. It is only sold in local stalls of the food market and can not be purchased in a bottle by anyone but Vietnamese people to re sell to the tourists for still crazy cheap. It beats out even the "distinguished" labels they have here which is really just glorified Bud Light (glorified only because it has a cool label of a tiger on the bottles)
Jeff had the pleasure of having a suit made at a place that was recommended to us by an older couple we met at our favorite local food stall, who also happened to be staying at our hotel, Keith and Carol. "Ken" is the tailors name and "his brother" is the one who makes the suits (as we have learned here inHoi an..Everyones brother seems to be a tailor..."brother" we have found is a possible code word for sweatshop) Ken wrote down on a scrap of paper the name of a restaurant with a sketchy map and 2 names of local dishes we must try while we are here.
Hesitant to break away from our favorite food stall, we gave in. After going on an adventure one night on our bikes we found the restaurant far far away from any sort of civilization (besides the major resort 2 miles away) Packed to the gills with locals we knew this place would not let us down. We handed the waitress our crumbled piece of paper, crossed our fingers and hoped for the best. As it turns out we were about to have Shark and Sting Rey for dinner! They brought us a massive pot of soup (basil, cilantro, tomatoes, pinapple broth) that we weredump the filleted pieces of raw shark in for a few moments to cook it! It was really, I mean really good! So far this could be the best way to cook fish in my book
Well that is it for now, I am running out of time on the internet and also getting hungry typing about all these foods!! Till next time or country, which ever comes first!!
We were told to try the local grilled fish infused with lemon grass and wrapped in a bananna leaf (Ca nuong la chuoi)...hands down the best thing we have EVER put in our mouths. This thing was like Christmas, New Years, and all 28 birthdays concentrated, and gift wrapped up in one single bananna leaf! Wow thank you Lee for setting the tone for Hoi An to be the culinary highlight of our trip..lives by one dish! (followed very closely by the fried wontons topped, or rather piled high, with sauteed vegetables and grilled shrimp)
We then proceeded to wash this down with freshly squeezed/smashed sugar cane juice. This tastes like a mixture of watermelon, lime and the most refreshing thing you have ever sipped on blended in one magical drink called sugar cane juice! Not only is it highly delicious, but highly nutritios. We did a search and found that sugar cane, when not over processed and bleached has some amazing health qualities! Such as improving digestion, purifying the blood, regulating bloodsugar and curing jaundice among other things!
We also were able to locate the best beer in Vietnam which is called Viet A aka Fresh Beer aka Bia Tuoi. It is only sold in local stalls of the food market and can not be purchased in a bottle by anyone but Vietnamese people to re sell to the tourists for still crazy cheap. It beats out even the "distinguished" labels they have here which is really just glorified Bud Light (glorified only because it has a cool label of a tiger on the bottles)
Jeff had the pleasure of having a suit made at a place that was recommended to us by an older couple we met at our favorite local food stall, who also happened to be staying at our hotel, Keith and Carol. "Ken" is the tailors name and "his brother" is the one who makes the suits (as we have learned here inHoi an..Everyones brother seems to be a tailor..."brother" we have found is a possible code word for sweatshop) Ken wrote down on a scrap of paper the name of a restaurant with a sketchy map and 2 names of local dishes we must try while we are here.
Hesitant to break away from our favorite food stall, we gave in. After going on an adventure one night on our bikes we found the restaurant far far away from any sort of civilization (besides the major resort 2 miles away) Packed to the gills with locals we knew this place would not let us down. We handed the waitress our crumbled piece of paper, crossed our fingers and hoped for the best. As it turns out we were about to have Shark and Sting Rey for dinner! They brought us a massive pot of soup (basil, cilantro, tomatoes, pinapple broth) that we weredump the filleted pieces of raw shark in for a few moments to cook it! It was really, I mean really good! So far this could be the best way to cook fish in my book
Well that is it for now, I am running out of time on the internet and also getting hungry typing about all these foods!! Till next time or country, which ever comes first!!
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