Day 8

zomg ! 1/3 of the way there :)

so today is my last day in Vietnam before I go to the Singapore/Malaysia tour and then I'll be back in Vietnam for another few days.

I woke up at 7 am on my own accord today which is weird. I find that I wake up so damn early here. hahaha! I'm pretty sure I'm adjusted to this time zone but I wake up so early :P I guess it's not a bad thing though!

After I got ready and was finishing up my day 7 post........ I decided to eat my chocolates from the wedding yesterday. HOLY CRAP. LOL I usually hate the "assorted" boxes of chocolate because there's always something I don't like but this box ... I LOVE THEM ALL! LOL Granted there were only 3 but still...

soft fudge inside dark chocolate. I can't remember if the fudge was chocolate or caramel. It looks like caramel though. Whichever it was ... I liked it :P

caramel with milk chocolate

coconut pieces in milk chocolate

It was DIVINE. I threw out the box otherwise I would check what types they were. I should've taken more boxes... HAHAHA

So we went to An Dong market and ate breakfast. They have a "food court" so to speak. They're different companies but they all serve the same thing. Bun bo hue, bun rieu, com suon etc. It's kind of like how McD's and BK all serve burgers.

So I ate this thing called bun thai LOL. so it's bun with a thai style soup. It's not like tom yum though. It was pretty good though, it wasn't gross. In total our 4 dishes and 4 drinks cost us about $10

This was my mom's banh canh cua

my dad & aunt's banh canh ga

my parent's coconut juice

my cafe sua da :)

This was the market place we were at.

They sell a bunch of stuff. It's almost like a supermarket LOL. candies, fruits, herbs, kitchen gadgets ... we didn't really look at the stuff though but that's what I saw.

We then went to 3 different Chinese based temples and 1 Vietnamese one. I'm not religious so I have no idea what the difference is , but yes. we went LOL. There were some cool stuff there.

These are incense spirals that you attach someone's name to. I don't know what it's for but it's pretty cool!

This is some figures that was lining the open roof at a certain spot in the temple. It's so intricate and pretty!!!

LOL us examing pictures in the wall. Well. I WAS but I was also reading something on my Kindle app LOL. That school there I walked by as well and it was the JHS my aunt went to.

LOL me chilling on the chair waiting for my mom and aunt to finish using the washroom.

This is the school my aunt went to! hahaha it's still standing :P

On our way to finding a place to eat... we saw this.

durians in racks for sale LOL.

Finally we've found somewhere to eat and it's a Korean place! YUM :)

utensils

the sides that come. left: some tofu with peppers, 2nd: kimchi, 3rd: green beans, 4th: bean sprouts

I actually didn't mind the tofu! It wasn't the soft ones, it was a little bit harder than ones I'm used to and the flavour was great. The kimchi wasn't spicy :( let down! The beans & beansprouts were typical :)

WATER LOL

japchae!

OMG so goood !!! had some bulgogi beef, bell pepers, onions, carrots and mushrooms in it, topped off with sesame seed! definitely my favourite dish of the meal. I think I wrote in one of my food reviews that I use jajangmyeon as my standard for Korean food, however they were out of it today :(

dolsot bibimbaab

I didn't really care for the spicy sauce that it came with. It wasn't as good as I've had it at home. Just not enough of a kick to it, flavour & spice wise. I didn't like how the egg was yolk only :P I like having the whites too!! The veggies were bean sprouts, cucumber, bulgogi beef, carrots, mushroom, daikon and a chinese veg LOL I love having dolsot because of the crispy rice you get! If the sauce was better, this would've been my number 1 dish!

Drinks came after the food so this is my da chanh

this is my mom's papaya smoothie

seaweed soup

My aunt isn't one to venture out of her comfort zone and so she ordered her own stuff and tried some of ours. She ordered this seaweed soup which was really good! It had just the right amount of saltiness in it without it being overpowering. The seaweed was also cooked perfectly (or at least in my opinion)

My aunt's chicken skewer that she ate with her bowl of rice

Since they had no jajangmyeon I opted for the skewer sampler thing. It had 5 skewers on it. one was enoki mushrooms wrapped up in a thin piece of chicken breast( ?? I think it was chicken ,it was so thin I couldn't tell), chicken heart, chicken, pork and a chicken wing.

I had everything except for the heart :P hahaha everything was nice and flavourful. It had a great hint of smokiness form the BBQ, no doubt. Our meal cost us about $22 and we were definitely filled to the brim!

We also went and bought some mopiko!! <3 thankgod. LOL I can finally relieve some of this itchiness.

After lunch, we went home to rest and my cousin asked if I wanted to watch The Dictator with her and her 2 cousins (lien and chanh - yay I figured out how they romanized her name). My cousin told me movies at 315 when it was already 2:50 and that Lien would leave their house in 5 mins and be there in 5 mins = 10 mins before I need to go down right? So at 2:55 I went downstairs and sat in the lobby because my cousin told me to wait downstairs. So I sat there reading on my Kindle app and waiting. It was already 3:20 and still nobody showed up! I didn't have her number and I didn't bring my mom's cell. Finally she came in and she was waiting for me outside because she's not allowed to bring her motorcycle up to the front of the door, only taxis are allowed. LOL SO FAIL. So in the end Chanh didn't come and it was just us 3 going. We went to the theater and arrived there around 3:40. (The Dictator was actually showing at 3:10 so we missed a lot LOL) so we decided to watch The Dark Knight.. LOL. UM I've never seen any of the Batman movies because I thought they were stupid (I prefer Marvel) but I wanted to be able to watch a movie so I picked it anyway (especially since everyone said it was so good). The tickets are so damn cheap here and the theaters are as nice as ours! Maybe even better cause we have sticky floors all the time. The tickets were 4.50 for VIP aka choosing our seats (or AVX at home). Since Lien paid for the tickets, I was swift and got to pay for our food. They've been paying a lot for me the last few days because everytime we go out I don't have pockets on my clothes ahhaha so I never brought money with me. We had two bags of popcorn & four drinks. We decided to "up-size" it and ........ it costed 9.50 WTF RIGHT. but not. because look how small it is LOL.

Sorry for crappy quality, I didn't bring my BB or digicam, all I had was my iTouch. haha

Anyhow, the movie was so effing long and my cousin had to pee approx 1 hour before it ended but she held it in like a trooper HAHA. Our parents kept on calling us, and yeah we ran home from the theater because they were waiting for us to go eat dinner.

Which brings me to dinner! :)

Tonight we had something I've never had before and my mom's sleeping now so I can't ask. but it was really good too. I found out it cost about $70

We basically wrapped stuff in rice paper. however, the rice paper is different. I think it's dried in the sun so it has a chewier taste to them and there's no need to wet them with water first!