Wow. The cuisine I expected and the cuisine I actually experienced was extremely different. There's no Panda Express or Rising Sun. The food here often comes from random food carts that line the streets. If these carts were in America, people may be quite hesitant to eat there which would be a huge mistake. These meals are often quite exceptional and often cost less than $1 which is about 20,000 Vietnamese dong. The photos below are from food carts at a local market a bus ride away from my dorm. Often times, us foreigners have no idea what we are ordering. The struggle is real, but most of the time the food turns out to be exceptional even though by the end of the meal I still may not know what I just consumed.
Here I got try frog legs for the first time at a local restaurant
At a Park Near HCMC
During our first week here we traveled to a nearby park with an all you can eat buffet. Dangerous, I know. And here I tried some very new and interesting dishes of Vietnam. The first photo is of escargot (i.e. snails) which were in a spicy tomato sauce. Pretty good actually! Odd texture as I could kind feel myself chewing on its face. The second interesting dish I tried was.... mouse! Good flavor but not too much meat on it.
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