eat your greens

A brief note as I just awoke from a food coma. We went to Loc Thanh, because we'd seen the large BBQ out the front. But in spite of the BBQ the best dish was a salad - I'm not sure of the Vietnamese name but it was translated as coconut body with chicken shred. Fantastic flavour - not of coconut at all - with carrot, young coconut flesh (?) cut into strips, roasted peanuts, pieces of chicken, dried onions, herbs and a wonderful fish sauce and lime juice dressing. We dined to the dulcet tones of the karaoke singers in the bar above.

Yesterday was the Hung Kings public holiday (even the maids got a day off). We went out walking to Tao Dan park early in the morning to see if anything was happening. A ceremony was in progress at the pagoda in the park. There were tag teams of boys working the dragons (screen right, out of shot except for a couple of feet!) and the musicians took turns to play the big drum (which did look like excellent fun).