Vietnamese Food

I haven't done anything really noteworthy the past few days, so in the interest of keeping in the habit of updating this, I thought I take a moment to talk about Vietnamese Food. The food here is...interesting. It mostly consists of a lot of noodles in soup and raw veggies. Most of the food sits out in the heat all day and yet I've yet to be sick from eating anything here. Perhaps our paranoia about food spoilage is just that, paranoia. Although I have been sick from eating pork in Beijing more than a few times, so I'm still going to avoid that where I can.

The food that I do eat here is quite tasty, but as my friend here Abbie put it, it is "ethereal." What this means to me is that although I can eat a giant bowl of Pho (soup noodles) and be quite full, 2 hours later I'm starving again. It actually seems to be a bit of a challenge to get a meal that lasts me the usual 6 hours between meals. Perhaps I just don't know how to ask for more hearty foods...hopefully I'll get better at the eating thing over the next 3 weeks.

On the other side of the coin, fruit juices are readily available, cheap and easy to come by, and taste absolutely delicious, so if not for my protein cravings, I could live on the fruit juices alone quite happily.