Monday, October 11, 2010

Breakfast

Rose Airport Lounge

Self-service pho
Dragonfruit
Mini banana
Spring roll
Shrimp ball
Tamarind candy
Coffee candy

Sunday, October 10, 2010

Dinner

Mojo (Cafe at the hotel)

Chao Tom - shrimp paste grilled on sugarcane, rice noodles, "young banana," starfruit, fish sauce

Good!

Dinner

Sésame (another training school for disadvantaged kids)

Lotus salad (with hot pepper, carrot, daikon?, shrimp, crispy fried potato? crackers
Chicken with fried rice
Soup (ground pork, cabbage, scallions, black pepper)
Watermelon (set menu - no choice)

Quite disappointing (though they seated me when I showed up an hour before they opened) - the salad was a little too much like eating a pile of raw onions, chicken undercooked, soup lukewarm

Lunch

Pho 24 (chain)

Chả cá thì là - Fishcakes with dill - with hot chili paste/sauce
Chả giò - Fried spring rolls - delicious!
Chả - Pork pie - like meatloaf
Cà phê sừa đá - Iced coffee with condensed milk - almost tastes like chocolate

Snack

Baguette - very airy, with chewy crust

Saturday, October 9, 2010

Lunch

Huong Lai (training restaurant for kids from poor/homeless families)

Fresh spring rolls - chicken, mint, shrimp, fish sauce
Taro soup - rice, ground pork, white pepper
Shrimp in coconut curry sauce - rice noodles
Grilled eggplant - sweet and salty with scallions, peanuts, toasted garlic? Slight burnt flavor
Lemon juice (diluted & sweetened)
Coffee ice cream - very weak coffee flavor and streaked with vanilla - I think it might have been made by pouring coffee over vanilla ice cream!

Pretty good overall.

Breakfast

Buffet at Sheraton

Lots of good food! See pictures.