27 Mar 2014

Friday, March 21, 2014

I taught kindergarten in the afternoon and was utterly tuckered out again! I will never complain about sweating back home in Canada again!

Dinner was Bun Rieu Cua again (second time this week!) It’s close, plus I just loved the tomato broth.  Also, the ladies recognized me – It’s always nice to have local food joints where you get to know the cooks!  Afterwards, I taught a private class for 2 hours and we went to a hole-in-the wall Vietnamese fruit bar, where they had Vietnamese-style fruit platters and a lengthy menu of various freshly-made juices and smoothies.  I had a jackfruit smoothie and we shared a fruit platter of watermelon, papaya, dragon fruit, pineapple, guava, jackfruit, water apple and mango – Nom nom!


My dish of the day is a Vietnamese-style fruit platter.  Whenever you buy a fruit platter at local food stops and vendors, they will almost certainly serve it to you with a couple fistfuls of shaved ice to keep it nice and cool.  By the end, you’ve got a nice puddle on your dish.  Now, I challenge you – can you eat it all before your ice melts? ... In HCMC heat? Good luck :p


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