Monday, December 15, 2014

Lunch on a Dragon Boat

As we travelled by boat to the tombs and pagodas we had lunch cooked for us. It was a wonderful experience. Not the best food that we have had in Hue but one of our memorable meals!
We had a boat driver and his wife. Neither had any more English than we had Vietnamese.
We negotiated the menu with lots of actions and sounds. Oink, oink means pork but it was done will full theatre , lots of noise and descriptive faces. You will see from the photos that it must have taken a little while to work out the food.
Once the menu was selected we had a short stop as our chef took off up the bank to a market to buy supplies. In no time the stove was on and she showed us the raw dishes ready to be cooked. A stop at  the Hon Chee Temple and when we came back aboard the table had been produced and set for lunch
An enjoyable meal and an even more enjoyable experience. Worth a hat!

The food ready for cooking

The ships kitchen

Gail ready to eat. We only ate about half!

1 comment:

Miss Di said...

Goodness, aren't you glad you don't have to cook from a squatting position! I don't think my knees would take it.