More Food in Hanoi
I met up with my teammates after blogging yesterday and we headed to the Old Quarters. The tops I asked to be tailored still needed alteration and so I haven't seen the finished product as yet. I hope they will be nice and ready by Friday evening when I go collect it together with my 50 "chun chun".
We had wanted to head to 69 cafe to have dinner but it was fully booked and so we walked along Ma May and came across an Indian restaurant. We ordered a few curries and naans and wow.. It was really really good! The Korean star decided we should have some meat and so he ordered tandoori chicken and it was not only tasty, it was succulent, juicy and tender. Simply perfect!
We decided to walk back after the meal and by the time we got back, we were so dead tired, we just fell asleep!
Today, we met up with the Dean of the English Faculty at our university. It was a really good meeting with him as we evaluated the attachment, shared the experience and explored future opportunities for collaboration.
The meeting ended early and so we headed to the nearby coffee shop to have the Vietnamese drip coffee. My teammates were hungry and so we ordered a baguette with omelette which was just heavenly!
Then we headed for lunch at the staff canteen.. We had Miriam's favourite fish... And a picture of her with the fish for her mum back home in Singapore to see...
Only 10 students turned up for class today. I made them do advertisements and with their limited vocabulary, I was quite impressed with what they had come up with. I hope the whole class turns up tomorrow since it will be my last session with them. I dropped by Tran Tien Plaza just now to shop for some chocolates and cookies to give out tomorrow.
Dinner with the Direct-General of the Minstry of Education and Training was at 6pm. I wasn't exactly hungry and I was in pain actually from gastric. My teammates assigned me to do the PR part for the dinner and so I duly did. I think I did quite an OK job. The Director-General is actually a very down-to-earth man.. I learnt he collected bells as a hobby. Very interesting.
The dinner was a sumptuous spread of around 8 - 10 dishes. The one dish i have to share with you is this shrimps in coconut.. then they light a fire round the coconut to kinda burn the prawns and let the coconut juice evaporate to sweeten the prawns.. I don't know how it tasted cos I can't eat seafood (damn!)... But I'm sure it was good... I know someone back in Singapore who'd simply love this dish!
Thankfully, dinner ended fairly early and so we headed back to the hotel and now, I'm blogging with two of my teammates at the Hilton.. Boy am I thankful I have this place - great music, great WIFI!
We had wanted to head to 69 cafe to have dinner but it was fully booked and so we walked along Ma May and came across an Indian restaurant. We ordered a few curries and naans and wow.. It was really really good! The Korean star decided we should have some meat and so he ordered tandoori chicken and it was not only tasty, it was succulent, juicy and tender. Simply perfect!
We decided to walk back after the meal and by the time we got back, we were so dead tired, we just fell asleep!
Today, we met up with the Dean of the English Faculty at our university. It was a really good meeting with him as we evaluated the attachment, shared the experience and explored future opportunities for collaboration.
The meeting ended early and so we headed to the nearby coffee shop to have the Vietnamese drip coffee. My teammates were hungry and so we ordered a baguette with omelette which was just heavenly!
Then we headed for lunch at the staff canteen.. We had Miriam's favourite fish... And a picture of her with the fish for her mum back home in Singapore to see...
Only 10 students turned up for class today. I made them do advertisements and with their limited vocabulary, I was quite impressed with what they had come up with. I hope the whole class turns up tomorrow since it will be my last session with them. I dropped by Tran Tien Plaza just now to shop for some chocolates and cookies to give out tomorrow.
Dinner with the Direct-General of the Minstry of Education and Training was at 6pm. I wasn't exactly hungry and I was in pain actually from gastric. My teammates assigned me to do the PR part for the dinner and so I duly did. I think I did quite an OK job. The Director-General is actually a very down-to-earth man.. I learnt he collected bells as a hobby. Very interesting.
The dinner was a sumptuous spread of around 8 - 10 dishes. The one dish i have to share with you is this shrimps in coconut.. then they light a fire round the coconut to kinda burn the prawns and let the coconut juice evaporate to sweeten the prawns.. I don't know how it tasted cos I can't eat seafood (damn!)... But I'm sure it was good... I know someone back in Singapore who'd simply love this dish!
Thankfully, dinner ended fairly early and so we headed back to the hotel and now, I'm blogging with two of my teammates at the Hilton.. Boy am I thankful I have this place - great music, great WIFI!
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