Food

Yes, we ate crickets on our second night here, and our friends ate bamboo grubs last night, but the following is pretty much what we eat day to day:

Pho ga - chicken soup with rice noodles and herbs. We have this often for breakfast at a place down the street. They have little plastic tables on the sidewalk with little stools that we can barely fit on, and they are getting to know us. We have 2 bowls of Pho, 2 glasses of ice tea, and a basket of fried bread-like things. We sometimes go there for dinner too, like tonight.
Lunch - not sure what this dish would be called here. There is a little cafe at school that serves lunch. The lady is nice and remembers the SYA students from last year. She lets you pick whatever you want with your rice, which is great. This is a picture of Ted's plate. He gets the pieces of meat. I get the greens and usually a scrambled egg and salty peanuts. The little shrimp are too cute!

Sometimes we have a little trouble with dinner...here we are trying a new (for us) place by Amy's apartment. It is a typical street setup with outdoor cooking, little tables, smoke from the grill in the air...

But on the grill, it looks suspiciously like duck heads...

And we only managed to order some grilled duck parts, including the head of course, and some herbs and beer. A lady walked by selling flat crispy bread things, so I got one.

We have discovered a new diet plan, called the language diet. If you can't speak the language, you can't order enough food, or you order random things, so you are therefore forced into dieting! The above picture was what we managed to order for 4 big people. The night before we ended up with chicken parts including the head! So tonight we opted for the safety of our Pho place. Now I think I'll have some cookies from FiviMart.