Last night we officially became un-official Viets. In other words, we got down and dirty with some traditional Vietnamese street food that took us off the "tourist" list and placed us firmly on the "local" one. Our friend from work, Jimmy, took us and another adventurous eating couple out to a restaurant located right next to our apartment building. Once there, Jimmy, who is Vietnamese American, ordered us up all sorts of fun food to try. We are glad that Jimmy's native language is Vietnamese because we sure are not learning this food vocabulary in Vietnamese class.
We both ate garden snails in a coconut chili broth, beef-tendon stew, and chicken feet. Adam enjoyed most of it, Heidi -- not as much. In fact, Adam said that chicken feet might be his new favorite snack as they really are, "dessert for dinner." Adam even went as far as to take a bite of Jimmy's dessert -- a fertilized, half developed duck egg -- complete with crunchy little beak and soft feathers! Bon appetite!
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| The pile of feet = 90 cents. |
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| Tendon beef stew with tomato broth and herbs. Delicious. |
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| Like candy. Well, kind of. |
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| This made Heidi throw up a little in her mouth and made Adam get no kisses goodnight! |
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