Hue

Hue is an ugly, grimey place. We ate lunch today at 'Mandarin', a very cheap backpaper restaurant where the owner displays his photography allover the walls and the house cat 'Mew' sits on your lap and licks your leg.
...but why does every restaurant in Vietnam have their own house cat rubbing itself up against your legs while your eating and why do they all have to have oversized goldfish jammed into tiny tanks for, apparently, your viewing pleasure???

Local 'Pho' restaurant. Pho is a traditional Vietnamese beef noodle soup, mainly eaten at breakfast.

Yesterday was HOT! Not as hot as in Cambodia, but up there. Today I´m walking around with my coat I had made in Hoi An, jeans and a scarf. It rained the entire day but that didnt stop us, we hired 2 motos with drivers and went to visit their gorgeous Royal Mausoleum. We put on our silly plastic raincoats and wondered around for about an hour. I dont really know the history of the place but it was beautiful inside. Lots of little lakes with floating lillies and pretty wooden buildings, stone paths with moss growing in the cracks and up over the walls.

Our moto driver is quite a character and tells us he is a black belt in karate and eagerly shows off some of his moves. On the way home we visited a Pagoda and the local markets. The markets where not that exciting and they stunk, but the coffee beans where A1.

Tonight dinner was just delish. We ventured out to a small resturant called Ngoc Anh. Sam was absolutely fasinated with the pop-up toothpick holder. They had an interesting menu:

Deer Tendon Soup, Frogs Legs and Smoked Eel and fried Vericelli 'FucKien' style

What tha ?????

We odered crab served in the carapace with cheese and lime and stewed duck with to die for Vietnamese mushrooms. Frogs legs in garlic with yummy chunks of fat onions and tastey sauce. IT WAS ALL SO GOOD AND YOU ALL SHOULD BE JEALOUS...