Food album (in Indochina)

Laos tea and coffee. Coffee not bad.. sweet enough.

The last day, i bought cookies in Vietnam to treat everyone (in order to finish up the local currency)

Some rice in Vietnam.. quantity a lot.. taste? normal

Another view of kebab Doner in Vietnam.. really delicious!

Satay.. normal there. The fried potato nicer.

maybe u all cant c it clearly.. It's some very crispy 'biscuit' (it tastes like a huge conflake) and added with cheese and sugar... Ok ok only.. too sweet! cant feel the taste of cheese

the square cube thing tat looks like toufu.. IS not nice! lol.. it is made of those stickyrice thingy and i dun like. (糯米）

This is nice.. it's sticky rice plus those cebisan chicken (鸡丝) and some pork meat.. sorry ya cant describe it in english

this is our new year eve dinner. It's in a fast food restaurant called Loteria.. haha.. not bad.. we had not eaten any fast food since the trip..

err.. this is pisang goreng.. fried banana.. taste alike

fried corn.. I personally hate this thing.

 

this is fried potato... ok ok only, another 'version' better but i dun hav the pic

This is the thing we ate in Halong Bay.. lol It's included in the tour fee. It;s not enough for us. (we are hungry ghost, remember?)

hmmm... this is nice dish ORDERED BY me in Hoi An.. Quite famous in Hoi An. Mee with those ingredients.

Nasi Lemak and Nasi briani in vietnam?? nope, AirAsia.. lol. Looks good though despite the price

 

Big prawn.. this prawn is actually very big.. lol. cost Rm20 each.. :O

Some food we grabbed from the buffet lunch in Vietnam. normal western style and a bit vietnamese style

SOme kind of mixed fruit juice in Vietnam. Of coz Ipoh's one better. tat;s why i didnt try.. lol

Tis is eel meat. emm.. i like it coz it doesnt have bones.. lol

This is frog meat. so so la.. ntg special

This is pigeon meat. I prefer chicken. Pigeon has NO meat. lol

Kebab! Very nice kebab in Vietnam (nicer than Malaysia) and more expensive. around RM3.50

This is dong fun with soup one

emm.. dunno how to describe.. It is 'dong fun' (winter mee). Tis is dried one (gon lou)

I never tried this one.. But Calvin said not bad.. We were very full tat time.

fried stuffs in Vietnam.. I love fried stuffs.. hehehe

carda mon juice.. lol.. taste like tea... not really delicious but refreshing.

breakfast in Sapa... quite cheap. around Rm2 only.. but few la.. that's why it is only breakfast

Horse meat, It tastes like beef. But horse is nicer.. :) 

Warning... non-halal thing.. This is dog meat.. lol.. I ate this and When i got back into Malaysia, I was bitten by dog.. So... eat them they will eat u back. Oh.. the taste.. it tastes like pork, seriously!

This is an ordinary fer (phor in vietnam) in Vietnam.. We ate this thousand times d.. 

the left side one is banana with soya.. The banana is a bit different.. very nice; the right side one is some special rice... It has a very good smell and even it tastes like good smell.. quite nice.

Emmm. this is nice.. But sorry i cant remember the food name.. It's some weird mee mix with blackpepper beef i think.

This is famous local food also. But actually is kinda chinese food. Not uncommon to us.

hahh.. wat is this? I cant remember.. lol

Some Fer... famous local food. but.. its taste is jz normal.

We ate steamboat in our local fren, Dat's house. Many diff food there. Very full and tasty.

This is ice cream with 'sticky rice'. Not bad.. quite a good combination. I like it.

Fried crickets! YUMMY!! it is so delicious!

Nam Pak Knor, infamous vegetable drink.. We searched for this drink all around the town.. lol

This is some noodle in Savanakhet, Laos.. This isnt Fer (noodle soup) but similar

It looks scary.. but it actually is tasty.. It's beef.. It's cooked.. I think... (and i hope)

They called it sandwich there.. In luang prabang.. quite delicious but the bread quite tough also.

Laos Fer.. (noodle soup) this is only the 30% leftover.. It is very few anyway. 

 

Rice in somewhere Laos (rare to find non-sticky rice in Laos o)

Sticky rice in Vientiane. It's cheap and not really nice. The rice is quite 'hard' and hard to chew

In Dalat highland... These are the few of the most memorable food eaten in Vietnam. Got hot breads, buns, the green thing is very delicious actually! and hot soya... it was so cold there.

This is found in Dalat also. It was hot sweet potatoes! mixed with salt that makes it sweet and salty. 

Some charsiew rice... Cant really remember where we ate this.. Vietnam i guess..

Indochina trip - Vietnam (i promise this is the last)

Hanoi - New Year 2009

 We purposely rushed back to Hanoi to witness how Hanoian celebrate their new year. And at that very special new year eve, we went to the city centre. It seemed that all Hanoian and other foreigners in Hanoi (like us) were gathered in this place. This caused a seriouThs traffic problem! We couldnt even stand at the same spot. Everyone is pushing forward or backward to 'exit' from the human waves. Well, I had a little fun experience here. When me and Calvin were on the way 'pushing', there was this guy, a quite a huge size middle aged guy pushing Calvin aggresively to the front. That time,i was wondering why was he doing so, he was in a hurry or what.. Suddenly, the person 'changed target' and i became the one that being pushed. I was suspecting something and suddenly he hugged me ( used his hand to wrap my body). I was a bit shocked that time and at that second i felt a hand (another person's) slip into my pants pockets. "gosh!, theft!" shouting in my mind. I quickly used my hand to 'attack' that 'long hand'(panjang tangan). Luckily the hand retreated and I declared I won! (ok.. ignore the and I declared... part , juz crapping). Probably he cant get anything, although my handphone was in that pocket, he probably manage to touch the 'tissue papers' instead of my handphone. It was a frightening experience. Luckily, I had this agility and smartness (hahaha, crapping) else my handphone would be gone.

the crowded ppl in Hanoi

After we went for our New Year Eve dinner (long time never ate expensive stuff), we waited for the countdown. The countdown was not as good as we expected. Instead, it was kinda lame. Everyone was counting their own seconds, and we didnt even know that it was already new year. THere wasnt any central clock that allow everyone to follow.. Lame~

the place we ate our new year eve dinner.. the aunties there treat me eat ice cream. So nice!

waiting to countdown..

Sapa - super cold!

We said goodbye to Hanoi again and we went for our second tour to Sapa. In its Winter season, though there wasnt any snow when we went there, it was terrible experience for me. Who could imagine that even Vietnam can get so cold, we were still in South East Asia, man. We didn't prepare any thick thick jacket or wat to protect us from the cold. And thus, I was wearing 4 layers all the time. lol. It wasnt very interesting the places. The interesting part is the weather, that's it (in my opinion). We tried some non-halal food here. shhhh.. (ignore this part if u are muslim) we ate dog meat and horse meat.. kaka.. Suffered badly from the coldness there. First time i had this bad experience of sleeping. We dun hav heater in that room.( but for sure we have hot water for bath la). Can you imagine when u are sleeping on the bed, u cannot even move even a little bit? Because once u move, u willl get in touch with those super cold bed and it will make u shiver. swt.. Sleep at the same pose whole day.. really going to get crazy... I really prefer to sleep in the train than here. Luckily we just stayed here for one day. To be honest, I skipped bathing one day.. keke.. Wont b dirty and smelly la.. U wont swt there. lol.

on the way to Sapa by train

My room! wearing 4 layers that time.. 

Actually Sapa has a nice scenery

This tribe people are very very friendly.. only if u buy things from them.

Hanoi - food tour

Back to Hanoi from train. That time we had this a little bit sad feeling ( and happy) as we were going to go back already. The last 2 days in Hanoi before going back to Malaysia. We had our food tour around Hanoi, trying all those food that we had missed out. Coz at this time, we realized we actually bring back money home (means we spent less than budget). We didnt care so much on the money spent, eat eat and eat. Coz i dun think i wont come back here anymore. We ennjoyed ourselves to fullest.. And we ate buffet lunch! haha.. The restaurant sure rugi, coz we eat like ghost of hunger. lol. (it made me stomachache and couldnt move for an hour that time, too full d). At the last night in Hanoi, we simply spent all the money just to get rid of all those local currency. lol...

Me and Calvin eating buffet (not this pic la, in this pic we were posing.. )

Back to Malaysia.... 

There was already a post in this part.. check it from my previous posts. 

Finallyyyyyyy i finished la! i went to this trip at december 2008 and now it's end of march 2009. lol.. So glad that i finally end this series of posts. lol. thank you for supporting.. //**I want to thank my parents to support me, my friends for giving me this chance, my producer (do i have one?) , and blogspot creator. And last but not least, my fellow 'fans'. Without u guys, i wont have this success. kakakaka **//end of crap.

Indochina trip - Vietnam (finish up)

Honestly, i'm getting very tired of wrting posts bout Vietnam trip, coz it seems endless. So, now i will just highlight the points instead of saying everything like last time.

Dalat - the flower town

Dalat is one the most wonderful place throughout the trip! It is like Cameron Highland. It's the flower city. CIty fulll of flowers. THe weather is like Genting Highland, but cooler coz it is very windy. Everytime I would shiver when we went out for dinner. THat's the place i decided to buy gloves (my hands are freezing~~) . You know, we were soooooo lucky! When we arrived Dalat that time, it was their flower festival! and this time is a more special Flower Festival. Coz it's their 55 years aniversary or something like tat. This special flower festival is held every 5 years. And we were so lucky to have this chance to witness this 5-years-once festival! There are dances, performance, flower competitions and so on.. WOnderful place! 

 

crazy house

 

elephant waterfall

 

nightscene in dalat taking pic with vietnamese

Nha Thrang - mudbath

Nha thrang is just a normal town near the river. The place of interest (to us) is the mudbath and hotspring spot. This is the first time i went for mudbath.. Ya.. bath of mud. Make urself totally 'brown' and muddy.. It's a very fun experience. And you will feel your skin is revitalized and 'has mineral' (mental psychological effect).  The mineral hotspring is fun too. But too bad, I don't want to post picture on this place. Coz it's a bit private ;P. But for your information, the pants i wore that time was thrown away coz it was too muddy and hard to clean (or i lazy to clean). Great experience.. must try there..

Hoi An - Taylor's city

Hoi An is the taylor's city. If you are a girl you probably amazed by this town. It has a 'china town' look. All the buildings are like chinese style. And the speciality of this place is the taylors. It is called taylor's town because almost everywhere has a taylor shop. They can help you taylor ur shirt, customize it and create it for you. Many people stopped by here to do some ball dress, cheongsam, format shirt and so on. And the price is cheaper too. I did one shirt for my mom. And i had no idea on how to do it.. I asked my mom what's her waist inches, shoulder, ... Then the shirt is totally up to me. The taylor asked me how to do it how to do it. But i also dunno how to answer, coz i really dunno how to do it. Then i simply point to a picture that it seems nice suited to my mom, and i asked the taylor to do that to me. Then i have to choose cloth materials, lol.. i dun have idea which is nicer or best.. swt.. totally made me swt! If my mom or sis came here, definitely they willl know wat to do.. Girls, mz come here, it's like a fashion town here!

the taylor city.. 

Hue - nothing much

There is nothing much in Hue, an ordinary city. We spent our christmas here. And the bad thing was i got a bit emo that time... So we have a separated christmas celebration. Anyway, i was not feeling so well and wanted to vomit. tat;s one of the reasons that make me emo too. I ate biscuits with Wen Pin. this is our celebration. It seems simple, but i enjoy it and appreciate it. It's one of the happiest christmas. :)  

imperial palace of hue

Hanoi - the capital; the football match

Finally, we reached Hanoi. We had been dreaming bout reaching Hanoi while we were suffering during the journey in Laos. swt. Hanoi is a very beautiful places with good weather. Wah.. memorable place. It is less 'city-like' compared to Saigon. But it is very very nice.. Out of adjectives to describe it. One interesting thing is the ASEAN football match. I'm not sure what the competition was named. But it was the competition between countries in ASEAn, if i'm not mistaken. When we were there that time, it's the final match between Thai and Vietnam. While the game started, every resident in Hanoi has already prepared to 'celebrate'. They have prepared flags anywhere. I was a bit curious. How could they so sure they will win the match. Coz they really prepare to celebrate it adi. Lol, and true enough, and lucky enough for us to see Vietnam won. I heard it was the first time out of N years, Vietnam won the championship. THe whole Hanoi city was crazy! They shouted, screamed, shouted, screames, waving their flags around the city. They were all crazy! I shall attach a video clip captured by Kylie ( i dun hav it yet).

Anyway, we stayed in Hanoi for one night then we had to go to Halong Bay (follow tour).

near the Angkian Lake (simply spell) 还剑湖

night scene

Ha Long Bay  - breathe-taking view

Halong Bay is one of the most beautiful natural place in the world. We all spent the whole day on the ship. And we had much fun there, enjoying the scenery, playing cards with friends from different places, eating delicious food... Yummy! (well we paid much for that tour). We met our new 'family' there. Family consists of Malaysian, Vietnamese, Australian and Korean. lol... 

take pic with our 'family'

the scenery.. see the calm unpolluted water, and feel the sea breeze.. great!

in a cave near halong bay

Back to Hanoi

We quickly rushed back to Hanoi just to celebrate New year. ps: lazy d.. to be continued.