Monday, July 20, 2009

Feels nice P2

So like I said I'll write more because I was really tired and blogging was the last thing on my list to do before I go to sleep. So to continue the story, Vietnam is a pretty dirty place. But it has so happy moments on it. Places to eat is like next door or across the street or so. For people who don't understand. If you own a house, there is bound to business in front of your door. For example, someone might rent the front of your house to sell stuff or to sell food n so on. So yea, but they pretty much make stuff we wouldn't have here because if someone got sick or so, the chef would get sue and be broke as hell. So yea. But pretty much food is everywhere and at night is where all the good food starts. So my long time friend that I know since we were little is now 20 years old. He decided since I'm leaving early he'll take me out and indeed he did. He bought me to a place where BBQ takes place, it was like BBQ with anything, noodles, rice, or even with porridge. Which I tried the porridge because I never had BBQ with porridge. Overall, IT WAS FANTASTIC. The guy who made this just knew how to mix and balance out the flavor and texture of the food. I would love to learn the way he cooks someday. After eating he took me drinking, non-alcoholic of course, we sat down in the chairs in the dark. I literally mean the dark. The only lights were from the stars and moon, the nearby house that was making drinks, and a cart a women was pushing to sell snacks and fried meatballs and stuff. There was one food called the chicken tongue. My friend, he ordered it and I felt sick to the stomach. But he told me it's only called chicken tongue because the slice of salami curls up likes a chicken tongue when it's grilled. And when I tasted it, golly damn, it was good. After our drink arrived, I looked at my drink that contained sliced strawberries in a blended smoothie of bananas and tomato. Overall I actually didn't order this. My friend did. He said it was their specialty. Tomatoes with bananas? Sounds kinda nasty. So I ate the strawberries alone. Then he persuaded me to drink it. When I did I was expecting a crap load of spitting out the drink. But it was really good, like it should be rated number one drink of the year! So after drinking he took me to play pool and he took me to watch little pigs run around in the dark playing with their brothers and sisters. They looked really cute and I got to pet one! Then after that I got home and it was around 11:30 PM. I decided that I'll at least try the food when I go out to eat unless it is literally something like pig's heart or so. 2 days passed and I didn't do anything much because everyone was busy with work or school and today was my last day. I decided to have fun myself, so I walked around and around for like 30 minutes and I came upon a shop that sold some pretty interesting stuff. The shop was like a shop I never saw before, a shop containing items from myths and legends. Some were fake but some were real. A tooth from the loch ness monster. I presume it was fake but the texture and how it was shape made it looked real. And there was one that was really interesting a $50 bill that had george washington's face on it. The guy told me it was a misprint and this is one of the 22 bills that were misprinted. I took a look at it to make sure it was real but it sure seemed real, it had that face of someone when you hold it into the light. I wanted it but he told me #73 USD. Damn. The price is pretty fixed because it's a misprinted $50 bill. But other than that, pictures of aliens and so. I left the shop and I came by this other shop that sold noodles. It seemed to be really really crowded. So it must've been good. So I waited for a table. After 20 minutes or so, I got a table. I order a bowl of soft noodle extra crunchy. Now how the hell do you make soft noodle that is extra crunchy? To my knowledge of cooking, that is impossible! When my bowl of noodle came out, I saw that it was fried and not just cooked. When I took a chopstick full of noodles, every bite was crunchy but after you bite into the crunchy noodles, there's that soft inside noodle feeling. And you can literally tell the difference. It was like 50% crunchy and soft. After eating payed 22,000 Dong which is $1.17 USD. Which is really cheap. The food was amazing. I walked home and soon in front of the door was no one. Slippers were gone. My parents have decided to go drinking and partying becuase it's the last day. No suprise and I didn't want to stop them. So I went to go drink Ice tea with milk and pearls. Which is really good in my opinion. After that I just walked around and browse through shops. When I came home it was like 8PM and my parents weren't home. I got a call from my little 12 year old friend saying 6 in the morning, we're going to swim. I said okay. And I understoof why it was 6 in the morning. It's because tomorrow would've been the day I go to the airport, get on a plane, and suffocate until I get back to the US of A. After swimming it was refreshing and so on. When I got home it was 11 am and it was time for me to leave because there was going to be traffic and I can't be late. While the car ride there, I notice a lot of things, a lot of people knew me because a long time ago, I was the little rascal. I guess the word spread but also everything changed after I left 3 years ago. When I left 3 years ago, my friend's dad stopped smoking and started drinking less, my friend got a gf exactly 4 days after I left 3 years ago. I could list more but it's just a continous chain of remodeling themselves. I have to say, vietnam has some great stuff and some bad stuff. But same thing with USA. There are always Pros and Cons. OH yea, for others wondering about my flight trip, 3 hours to teipei, then 12 hours from there to the USA. So lets see you gotta wait one hour at teipei before going to the USA. So It's 15 hours and I slept 13/15 hours. Which made my flight trip seem fast [= And now I'm back here and gotta distrubute the gifts I got for people.

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