We were kindly invited to dinner at one of Greg's friends houses - a real Vietnamese feast with the extended family. The spring rolls were fantastic, and we also ate a huge variety of other dishes including the Vietnamese speciality of snails! I did try them but much preferred the tofu and other vegie dishes.
Hoi and his wife were our hosts.
We drank rice wine with the meal - a spirit-like drink that taste somewhere between port and vodka - potent stuff! There is a women's versiontoo (which stef had) that tastes more like apricot or peach schnapps, but still pretty strong - thankfully the glasses were small.
And it turns out that his father-in-law is a famous Vietnamese authot. He was extremely generous to us and gave us a signed copy of one of his books that had one an award!. NOw we just have to practise our Vietnamese in order to read it!
Hoi and his wife were our hosts.
We drank rice wine with the meal - a spirit-like drink that taste somewhere between port and vodka - potent stuff! There is a women's versiontoo (which stef had) that tastes more like apricot or peach schnapps, but still pretty strong - thankfully the glasses were small.
And it turns out that his father-in-law is a famous Vietnamese authot. He was extremely generous to us and gave us a signed copy of one of his books that had one an award!. NOw we just have to practise our Vietnamese in order to read it!
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