Sunday, 8 May 2011

I had a week off this past week and spent it here in Hanoi. Most days I didn't do a great deal but i did have some nice days with my friend Tuan who also has some time off right now. He is a tour guide in Hanoi and he asked me to visit the museums in Hanoi with and help him with some English. We met on Friday and Saturday and ticked the first 2 museums off the list. On Friday we met in the Old Quarter for lunch first - we ate Bun Cha and spring rolls. Yum yum yum!



After that we went to the history museum and had a nice couple of hours walking round the museum and looking at all the cool stuff in there - it was much more fun to go with someone else than to go by myself!

When we finished at the museum we went for some nep cam, which is sticky black rice with coconut milk, condensed milk and a little bit of yogurt.



mix it together



and enjoy.



Yesterday we went to Hoa Lo prison, aka the Hanoi Hilton then came back to my place for lunch. I've introduced Tuan to the delights of Campbell's soup with buttery toast so we enjoyed that! I've also given him an assortment of other foods he's never eaten before in the past few months like lasagne. He's also been a guinea pig for my baking adventures. I fed him cookies and cakes, and he also sampled some of the scones I cooked earlier in the week.



The scones were good! (recipe so I can find it again! ) I also attempted crumpets but they weren't quite as successful. They were a pain to cook and took forever to make. They tasted OK but not amazing so I don't think I'll bother with them again.



Finally, a pretty picture of the sunset seen from my apartment!

2 comments:

Liz Lansdown said...

Those scones look really yummy! Shame the crumpets didn't work out. :(

That rice drink looks odd...I'm guessing it tastes much better than it looks! ;)

We're having a Yorkshire pie roast here today. Sis the vegetarian is back for the weekend so it''s roast veg inside a giant pud for lunch instead of the meat. :)

Nukulah said...

It does taste good. It's quite sweet though!

How was the yorkshire pie action? I've never been brave enough to try that myself! I'm not sure how successful any attempts to make a yorkshire would be for me in my crappy little oven