We are now onto the final leg of our journey through Vietnam together having arrived in Mui Ne midday yesterday after a 17 hour night bus from Hoi An. Starting where we left off on our last post, the second half of our time in Hoi An was event and appointment filled. On the Wednesday, we decided to improve our culinary abilities respectively and we undertook a cooking class at a local restaurant named Day Night. Since Hoi An is a hotspot for tourism, there are many cooking classes available, its hard to gauge what is good, bad or plain ugly - we chose Day Night after having been delighted with delicious dishes for lunch and dinner (and after asking if they did cooking classes!). Our personal instructor (it was only the two of us in the class) was the owner/chef/Maître d', Ms Ahn. We chose the dishes from the menu that we wanted to learn and we were off! We first cycled to the markets with Ms Ahn and had a guided tour through the maze of stalls - at a cracking pace, Ms Ahn doesn't stop for any person or animal!
Jen and Ms Ahn riding to the markets.
At the markets, we bought fresh tuna, herbs, noodles and all the ingredients required to make our dishes - Banana Blossom with Beef Salad and Tuna cooked in Banana Leaf.
Herbs and Banana Blossoms
"Secret Cau Lao Noodles" supposedly everyone in Hoi An uses them from this lady!
The market was slightly crowded!
We departed the markets and cycled back to the restaurant to begin preparation for our meals! See below for pictures of us preparing the dishes!
After our cooking classes we had a few appointments with tailors - nothing too interesting! The next day we cycled to the beach which turned out to be a half nice day - our time in Vietnam has been great however good weather with blue skies seems to be somewhat elusive.
Over our last day and a half in Hoi An we took it easy, although it ended up with last minute adjustment appointments scheduled throughout the days with the tailors-Mitch's suits fit just right now!
As written earlier, we took the night bus from Hoi An to Nha Trang and onto Mui Ne - this was an experience in itself. As we're on the tail end of the trip, we're not being very active here, eating some great fresh seafood and we'll see some of the sights around Mui Ne this afternoon, hopefully the current rainy conditions change. We'll make our way back to Saigon (Ho Chi Minh) tomorrow in preparation for Jens flight back to the land down under on the 7th. We'll try to post before the flight!
Jen and Mitch.
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