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 Coffee the Viet way by SirRichard
Anyway, when they do, they filter it directly in the cup. You will get a cup with a metal "hat" in which is the coffee. You have to wait till it finishes being filtered. With that U get a jar of hot water, so U add the amount of water U need to make it lighter.
If U want milk, you get 1 or 2 fingers of sweet condensed milk, U stir it and U get coffee with milk.
U can only get expressos in italian restaurants. Leave a Comment
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 Ice in the tropics!!! by SirRichard
There is not a "frozen products" gastronomy like we have in Europe, here products are bought and cooked in the same day, brand fresh, so there is not real need for a freezer.
That concept of ice always reminds me some early pages of "100 years of solitude" (Garcia Marquez), where ice was considered kind of magic in tropical Colombia... Leave a Comment
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 Vietnamese coffee by SirRichard
It's difficult to find a good expresso coffee outside Italy, France or Spain. Here in Vietnam you can have a breakfast the "french way", although the coffee is not exactly the same, but is the closest I have been to "real" coffee outside these countries.
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 by we2364
You can find out all fresh seafoods in this market - I almost have an idea to buy some of those and cook in our guesthouse. Next time, I will try it!
You can find many species of vietnamese crafts and living commodities here.
You can find vietnamese ladies wearing their typical dress and hat, from young to old.
You can find very friendly local people trying to sell stuff to you. But you can also find stubborn old ladies whom wont let you take the photos of them - very tuff personality :-))) Leave a Comment
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The ao dai is the traditional costume worn by Vietnamese women. These silk, two piece costumes come in a variety of colours, but by far the most common is white.
Beautiful young women in white ao dais adorn the covers of many guide books to Vietnam and every visitor who comes to Vietnam wants to take the perfect ao dai picture. Unfortunately, it's not always that easy. Nowadays, very few women wear ao dais. The only ones you are likely to see are worn by high school girls, Vietnam Airlines stewardesses and women working in tourist gift shops or as entertainers in tourist venues.
So, most likely, you will end up, as I did, with some blurred shots of high school girls on bicycles, taken out of a bus window, or some rather formal, posed pictures of gift shop workers who are fed up with having their pictures taken by foreign tourists. Leave a Comment
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 Phu Quoc - Beer w/ice in the
middle of nowhere by epicult
Vietnamese folks just love their cold beer but decent refrigeration is not always available so enter... (EKKKK!)... ice. Now if you ask me, there's no better way to completely ruin a beer than to pour it into a glass full of ice. Unfortunately, this is the only way your going to be able to cool your brew, to anything less than luke warm, in many parts of the countryside. That was the Warning or Danger portion of the tip.
Now comes the Cultural portion... Many Vietnamese "actually like" watered down beer and even when they have refrigeration, they serve it up with ice. It never failed... I put my beer down and next thing I know someone's ploped a big chunk into my glass with some tongs. Not my favourite, but eventually you do get used to it. Leave a Comment
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While traveling I witness heaps of "well off" westerners who are waited on "hand and foot" while moawing down huge meals and heaps of alchoholic beverages. Unfortunately, I rarely see any of them leave a tip. This was especially true in Vietnam.
In guidebooks and other resources, you'll read that it's not part of their culture but chances are, neither are you. These people work hard and usually for little more than a dollar a day. Leaving a dollar tip between a party of two or more certainly won't bankrupt you but it will make a HUGE difference in someone's life, if even for a day. If the service is poor, don't leave anything. But if you're served well, leave a small tip to show your appreciation. Leave a Comment
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