Visit an Outdoor Food Market
One of the best ways to really get the feel of Vietnam is to visit an outdoor market. Every town has one…in fact if you just go for a walk (in no direction in particular) you’ll stumble across one in no time. My favorite time to visit the markets is early morning when they are the busiest…but then again, during the heat of the day the markets are also pretty neat because the pace is slower and its fun to see all the vendors taking an afternoon nap on boxes in the middle of their brightly colored fruit. The markets in Vietnam are a sight to behold to the Western. Exotic fruits and vegetables are piled in neat little pyramid like piles everywhere…strange dried ingredients are lined up in jars and are hanging from the ceilings, live pigs, chickens, ducks, snakes, fishes and frogs are crammed into incredibly small pens, raw skinned meat of all kinds is displayed in the open (with the vendor...
