8:00 - walk 0.3 km to breakfast (crab paste noodle soup and cà phê sữa đá)
8:10 - brownout in District 1
9:00 - another coffee at Highlands Coffee, over talk about upcoming plans
11:30 - cab ride to Com Nieu Sai Gon for the lunchtime spectacle of flying 'burnt rice' cakes (see 'A Cook's Tour' videos on YouTube). Accompanied by fish stews, mini burnt cakes with fish, garlic sauteed flowers, and chewy chicken skin in rice noodles. Coconut juice to drink, and a fruit plate of pomelo, pineapple, papaya and dragonfruit to finish.
14:30 - medical briefing at the international clinic
15:30 - pineapple orange smoothie at Trung Nguyen, over more talk of upcoming plans
18:30 - dinner of rice porridge with chicken, pig hearts in herbs, and beef in vermicelli. A cold Saigon Red, too.
20:30 - blogging about food, mostly
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| The 'burnt rice' after being dressed with oil, sesame seeds and green onions. You order this for the experience of having it delivered to your table; while tasty, it is a little hard to eat. The extra thrill for me was the link to Bourdain. |
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| Carnage at Com Nieu Sai Gon |
I realize that this is ridiculous. Whatever. Can Tho tomorrow, where I plan to snag my first banh mi. New friend and Can Tho native Angela knows good places for said sandwiches, as well as curries. We will also buy bikes to use throughout the semester, then use them to tour the city. After that, we will probably eat more. It will get harder, don't worry.
Maybe it's the fact that I love this food and am willing to try anything, or maybe it's the 8 tabs of Pepto each day, or maybe it's just sheer will power and a desire not to disappoint Bourdain, but I'm keeping it together. If you catch my drift.
* this trip is my experience, not Tony's, but that doesn't mean all hero worship has to go out the window
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