Beer and rats

We are in a crusty pub with bad smelly pipes playing more pool. The Huda beer is better than Tiger canned which tastes like ashtrays. I think Huda is the same as Festival or maybe its the same company. BGI is like drinking tea, light beer and pee all in the same glass, not that I have ever drunk pee, but if you have too, and its mixed with tea and light beer, thats what it would probably taste like. BGI beer.

I had to cut my hair with the nail clippers before I came out. I wanted a fringe and it seemed like too much of a hassel to find a hairdressers and try to painfully express to them in my best sigh language exactly what I wanted. So instead, I cut my own fringe with the nail clippers and it was very frustrating but I did a really good job at it. The problem is now, I really dont think I suit a fringe at all, and wish it was the way it was before I had tried to cut it off.

Been seeing a few rats running around late at night. Apparently April is peek month for rat harvesting in the Mekong Delta, when some 2 tonnes of rodants are delievered to Urban centers like Ho Chi Minh City every day. I didn't know about this until I read it in a local magazine at the pub today. I am completely shocked! But its not at all uncommon, in fact, rat meat is almost available in every local restaurant in Siagon and the reccommendation is for it to be cooked in coconut milk. Gee... what have I really been eating all this time???

Flying out of Hue today, flying to Hanoi. Thank god we are not travelling on one of those horrible buses again. Our flight has been delayed, so now we are sitting in a French bakery passing time. We went back to the same restaurant for dinner again last night, we just had to try the deep-fried eel, deep-fried with butter sauce. Sam ate around it avoiding the bones and I just crunched into it, its just like eating prawn tails. I liked the eel. I cant say I noticed any distinct flavour, but thats probably because it was deep-fried and probably because I've only eaten it once. They do the best fried rice there. We ordered some more to take-away and went back to our hotel room to drink Hanoi Vodka with 7-up and watch movies.

I cant say I like Hue all to much. The rain might not help. The clothes are overpriced, restaurants minimal and there are not to many places to drink and when you do find one, its like drinking in my nans kitchen (no offense nan) Overall, its quite an ugly place, not very touristy with not much to do.

Tiger beer and coconut nuts.