Friday, March 25, 2011

walking is good for you

More walking today - this time to the Botanical Gardens and Zoo, where it appeared to be school excursion day. There were hundreds of kids, some of whom were very excited to shake hands with a foreigner and practice saying 'hello.'



We also completely failed to find the Australian Embassy in District 1. We were using a map we picked up last time, which directed us to a demolition site. 


Tonight we dined at Quan Nem, which has the English tag line 'Special Vietnamese Spring Roll'. This turned out to be accurate as the restaurant only did one kind of spring roll, crab meat, which was delicious. There was one other option on the menu, grilled pork, also tasty. 


The length of the menu was in complete contrast to our lunch venue, which had a menu of about 20 pages, including choices such as goat's penis and field mouse. In both places the waiter handed us menus and then almost immediately pointed to the dish deemed most suitable.