frog saliva

Wiring more haywire than usual!

Having experienced dodgy internet connections the last few days, this is just a quickie from a local cafe.

For our last night in Saigon, we lashed out and had a fantastic meal at a fancy restaurant called Nam Phan. Decent wine served in proper wine glasses, interesting and delicious food: grilled eggplant, braised tofu and mushrooms, mudfish and pork claypot, beef in betel nut leaf, goose with galangal. Also the most beautiful bathroom I've ever been in.

My dessert was hasima with lotus seeds - we asked a couple of waiters what 'hasima' was and finally got 'frog saliva - good for your health.' So of course we had to try it - the texture and appearance was like soft pear, no real flavour of its own - the lotus seeds made it kind of nutty, in what seemed to be a fruit syrup.


We're departing for Thailand tonight.