Dinner at Co Do, Breakfast at Hoang Phu Gia

After the Lacquer factory, our last event for the

day is dinner at a local Vietnamese restaurant

for another authentic local cuisine.

 nice oriental looking restaurant with tasteful decor and great ambience

 This is the restaurant: situated at 367 An Duong Vuong, Phuong 3, Quan 5, TP Ho Chi Minh

tempting array of delicacies

door of toilet, with a latch that reminds me of the doors of old China

houses in my hometown

tucking in to the food

 note that most of the servings are for four: 

 like this starter: four banana leaf wrapped savoury rice paste

 Deep fried steam pancake with shrimps, and squid,

 this one two each!

 Lots of salad

 sour lemon drenched salad

 four pieces of fish keropok

four fresh srping rolls

 taugeh ommelette

 tiny piece of meat patty

 wafer thin rice wrapper for you to wrap the meat with condiments

 son is picking up the rice wafer for some wrapping moments

we have nearly finished all our dishes

 Lastly we are served Com Sen: Rice Lotus Cotyledon with shredded chicken

 shrimp, pork, sour pork hash wrapped in lotus leaf and steamed

They eat everything except the salad and the sour appetiser

 noodle soup with beef

 after dinner we are driven back and we see luxury cars outside the designer row of shops

 then we reach our hotel, and as usual, we sit outside to watch the street life unfold

 people loitering outside the pub near our hotel

 the itinerant street vendor with her heavy load, peddling all sorts of wares

 Next morning, we have breakfast here

 and here

 we have a vantage view of other people's tour bus, starting off at 7 in the morning; 

we are lucky, we have our own van and personal guide;

and we do not need to wait for anybody or have them wait for us.

 Hawkers trying to sell souvenirs to the tourists;

there are very few souvenir stalls, 

so get all that you need from them!

Then, we start our journey out of the city to My Tho

 My Tho is a waterfront village, we will be taking a boat ride, then a sampan ride...see next post.