It’s kinda ironic that my first ever meal in Vietnam was not Vietnamese food, but western food instead…
It was at a restaurant called Kangaroo Café, which also runs some short tours around Vietnam. I was there to book a trip to Halong Bay initially, but couldn’t find the right schedule. However, after spending two hours walking under the sun, I kinda need a break… and the air-con and cold beer seemed a bit too hard to resist.
Hence, my first meal in Vietnam… a peppered chicken chop, some chips, salad, and a Bia Hanoi (Hanoi beer). Decent food and reasonably priced.
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Yum, thats one good looking meal.
There’s a Vietnamese version- chicken w/ lemon grass. Try it.
That looks delicious alright. But still, funny you ate Western Food first in Vietnam lol
looks good.
just meat, no vegetables?
that’s a lot of calories, lol.
butchroa… I know; most Hanoi food comes with lemon grass or mints or some other herbs. This was my first meal in Vietnam, plenty of others to share later.
bb… lol forgot to mention the salad, which kinda sucks though.
lol, yeah, I can see the little side salad and the few strips of bell peppers on the plate.
Still, it ’s a nice looking plate of food. Did you have them make that special for the picture? It almost looks like a food ad. Very clean and neat looking.
In alot of places the food prepared never looks as pretty as the picture they advertise.
Nope, no special request… in fact I was not really sure what I was ordering because of some communication problem; I was actually expecting something a bit more exotic lol.
Well, if it looks that nice I will have to contact the owner of the restaurant to charge some advertising fees :p
lol, if i ordered this meal, i won’t eat that salad because i hate those carrot/radish stuff.
tell them to give you free beer if you visit next time :)
bb… it comes in a set.
kyon… hmmm, not sure if they will have the chance to give me the free beer… it’s not like I will be going back to Vietnam anytime soon.
it’s not like I will be going back to Vietnam anytime soon. <== hey, why???
Gre… to rephrase it, it should read ‘I will not be going to Vietnam again soon’.
I am not from Vietnam, and there are many places around the world that I’ve never seen yet… so, until I finished visiting my desired destinations, I probably won’t be going to Vietnam again.