Chicken Foot Anyone?

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Started the day off right with a Saigon sunrise at 5:30am and a stroll around district 1. It is amazing how many folks are on the move at this hour, setting up shop, exercising, milling about.

A very refreshing swimming pool on the sixteenth floor, daytime temps in the mid 90's with 400% humidity. U.S. Commercial Service was our first tour. They are a U.S. government agency that assists American businesses wanting to do business in Vietnam. Very interesting visit on many levels.

The Vietnamese leave nothing to the imagination in the (American) War Museum and the Reunification Palace, built by the French in the mid 1960's, was stately. Had a fabulous lunch for $100,000 dong (insert audible gasp). This is only five American dollars. 😊 Ended the evening with an entertaining dinner cruise, complete with a Vietnamese band singing American country and pop standards. Travel half way around the world and hear the same music.

We have three tours tomorrow and hopefully some time set aside for leisure.

Brian

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Comments

[Tommy]

room
Makes the Encore look pretty boring. Food looked good.

[Mom]

chicken foot
please tell me you did not eat a chicken foot - looks more like a bbque troll hand. OMG

[Melissa]

good to see
good to see that you are all accounted for!!! :)

[Nancy]

Did you really eat the chicken foot? I'm going to start calling you Andrew Zimmern!

[Aunt Wanda]

Yummy - looks good. We just thought we utilized all chicken parts in the US! Learn how to cook those and you can cook them for us at our next birthday party. I hope you are having fun. From all your pictures everything looks beautiful and what a welcome committee. I bet you felt like a celebrity. Be safe and send more pictures. Love ya, Aunt Wanda

[susie]

chicken foot
how interesting.. now did you eat this or any dog yet...

[Brian Clements]

It was more like sucking on a neverending popsicle. Very tasty. Brian