Today I had to wake up early to be at the FTU (Foreign Trade University) at 9 am for a meeting with all the project members. We discussed a lot of things (for three and a half hours !!), and I think we were very productive. We'll be very busy with lots of workshops and presentations during our stay here in HCMC, but we'll also have some time to travel around Vietnam (the South) and Cambodia (Angkor Wat). Tomorrow we're going to the Cu Chi Tunnels !!
After the meeting we went to a vietnamese restaurant, where they had snakes, rats, mice, eels, tortoises/turtles, pig ears, and so on in the menu (beside the "normal" stuff of course), and the waiters really didn't speak any english, so we had to show them the fish aquarium and mime the act of drinking until they understood that we wanted a glass of water, it was really funny !! At the end we just ordered some rice, as we couldn't ask them what was in the different dishes ...
This evening I had some spring rolls with my host family, but they weren't the normal fried spring rolls we all know, you had to make them yourself, as follows : First you take a sort of flat round paste made of rice powder, you dip it into water, then you put some vegetables (they look like green branches) on it, some little fish, and some vermicelli, you roll the rice paste to a spring roll (it's harder than it looks sounds !!), you dip it in the fish sauce (they dip a lot of things in the fish sauce), and then you eat it !! I have to admit, didn't expect it to be that good. For desert we had some green mangoes (just mangoes which aren't ripe yet), which we dipped into fish sauce with sugar, and it was too surprisingly good !! If you eat the mango alone it will be too acid, so it's the perfect combination. Again, a really interesting day, you learn a lot here !!
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