A quandry

There are so many places to eat in the area of the Horison I don't know where to start. The problem is that they most seem to serve the famous soup with vegetables/fish/other meats that I do not recognize. When at the fish restaurant near Minh's jazz club last night there was a bowl of dipping sauce that had something in it whose taste I did not like. One day last week I turned left out of the office building where I work and then down an alley for some very nice soup. I don't want to know what was in that soup but it was good.

So I made myself a list of places to try and have them carefully written on a piece of paper to show the cabbie. I will try Au Lac (I did go there with Bruce and Ron once already) as well as Tamarind, Cha Ca La Vong, and Little Hanoi 2 that I read about here as a start. Some of them could be quite a piece from the Horison but it does not matter since I can then explore the new surroundings and cab it back when swimming in perspiration. I so want to see Hanoi again when it is not summer. Supposedly they have 4 seasons here rather than the 2 they have in Africa ... wet and dry.

Now I will ask the Trangslator on Monday to write down on a piece of paper how to say:

No snake
No eel
No stomach or intestines
I like chicken
I like pork
I like beef

I will then present this list wherever I go and should be fine. Without these adventures I will go back to Ottawa missing the what I know is some of the most amazing dining experiences of Vietnam.