Hi guys,

First of all, xin chào from Cat Ba Island, Vietnam! Quite a bit has gone down since our last post! After three boiling and kind of boring days in Bangkok, we managed to get our Vietnam visas (phew!). In order to fill time, Joe had his first ever Massaman curry; we ate scorpion, which kind of tasted like chicken skin, kind of like seaweed, and kind of like sick (awesome!); we went down to Chinatown, which turned out to be the REAL Chinatown and not the touristy one that was in the guidebook – cool! After wandering through stalls selling delights such as shark fin (£1,000 a pop), whole dried duck, and vaccum packed pig’s face (now we know where they’re getting all their food from on Nothing to Declare), we managed to find a local restaurant where we had an amazing meal of roasted duck noodles and the best chicken spring rolls each of us had ever eaten. Big thumbs up for REAL Chinatown, Bangkok! Continue reading →