Trying some eel
Originally uploaded by bastchild.
Trying a couple Mekong culinary delights: eel and frog. On the boat, we met Andrej, a Slovakian photographer living in Sydney for the past three years. We all hung out for the next couple days.
We spent the first night in the Mekong Delta at Cantho, a pretty large town. The tour guide said we could meet him in the hotel lobby in the evening and he would bring us to a place to get some traditional Mekong cuisine for cheaper than we could get it in Saigon. Of course, he would be taking us to a tourist place and possibly receive a kick back. We had dinner on our own, eventually finding this well-lit restaurant away from the riverfront area. They first gave us a menu in Vietnamese without prices, but we asked for English and got the menu with prices (possibly inflated? who knows?). The Lonely Planet book says you're supposed to order food at these restaurants without knowing the prices, but to ask for the price after you are done ordering. I think it's just another way to give tourists an inflated bill.
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