Tet in Vietnam Part 4

Corners of Vietnam

Hermes' light

Fume

Reflect in safetiness

Sand shadow

Windmills

Calligraphy
Touch of Creation
Fountain
Light Sailing
Pace
Cyclo
Kiss
Strength

Ancient

Warmth
Firedance

Over an island up in the sky

Tet in Vietnam Part 3

Friends Photos: To continue with the series, here are a few pictures with my friends. In order to be a little more creative. The photos will be matched together with a song that I love from the movie "November rain" with Keanu Reeves inside. This is how I felt about these people. ALways keep my days bright and hopeful. It's called "Touched by an Angel"

And when she walked in the room
After so many years

He looked up and saw her
He was standing at the crossroads

She was moving in slow motion

Everything was the same
Except that everything was different

In that very moment, everyone was silent

And everyone was friendly
For the first time in years

Everyone was smiling
Though their pain was apparent

And the floor was wet and slippery
With the tracks of their tears

And then I see someone standing
At the side of the stage
Not standing in the shadows

I see her face
Glowing in the darkness
In her own angel way


"I have come to make you better
I have come to take you away"


No one slipped and fell
This time, everyone was steady

Someone held my arm
So that I would not fall


For the first time in a long time
Everyone was ready

No one said a word
And that simply said it all

Walking through the room together
In suspended animation

No one saw us go; no one said goodbye

But in my heart, I leave
Great expectations


That you will find the answers
To your questions

And that life will once more
Be a celebration

And that you will be touched by an angel

And that you will be touched by an angel

And that you will be touched by an angel

Celebration

Someday, someday
Celebration...

Food Photos
To continue on with the series Family, Food, Friend, Fun and F.... yah you wish! This next series is about the authentic very Vietnamese (and very my family kinda food). Enjoy

The famous Pho (Vietnamese Beef Noodle)


Banh chung (Made from meat, green bean stuffing and sticky rice skin. The green color is from the wrap leaves when we boil it. It represents Vietnam as a square earth with animals (meat) and plants (beans) and green and filled with rice (cos we are agriculture nation))Chicken porridge (This is how we cook at my house, dumping the whole chicken inside)
Grilled prawns (Very big and very juicy. At home I eat the prawn head fully scaled also. We don't waste anything from the sea, that's what sea people do :p)
Fish
This is the type of fish that is pregnant and it had chewable bones. So basically you can eat the wholething just like that. And it was fried together with crumb. I like to eat this a lot when I was at my hometown by the sea

Grilled squid
7 giant squids grilled. This is just like 1 of them :p I L.O.V.E sea food. Muahaha
Nem
Another authentic Vietnamese food that a lot of my Singaporean friends refused to eat. Simply because it's ... raw. It's pork with some boiled skin and then wrapped inside guava leaves and some other leaves and leave until the good virus made the whole thing sour (think yoghurt). It's super ultra nice and cool!
Bo luc lac
A typed of stewed beef with onion. The beed is very thick and very sweet :)
Pha lau
Think Chinese has this too. It's pig stomach stewed like about 6 hours in coconut juice and and wine and spices. Very rich in flavour and very chewy
Banh can
Authentically from the south, this is banh can. What you do is have a charcoal stove (yes, I blew the fire by charcoal and woods). Then you ground rice into powder, mix them with water and put them in. After that you put a bit of egg in. Then the whole thing will become like a type of cake, fluffy, very soft and very nice. You eat this with tomato fish sauce and fri spring onion, which is amazing :)