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Location Date Sat, 11 August 2012 
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For our last day in Nha Trang we went back to Lanterns for our cooking course. The day began with a trip in cyclos to the local market with the chef. Here she introduced us to local delicacies and helped us negotiate our way through the mounds of vegetables, raw fish, raw meats and live animals (crabs, eels, frogs that we saw being skinned and chopped up alive and a mass of snakes slithering around in a net).
We took our collection of ingredients back to the restaurant and under close supervision proceeded to make a three course typical Vietnamese dinner. The best bit was the Flambé desert which caused large flames to jump out of our frying pans. The worst bit was the chef's demonstration of how to eat an embryo egg. All of us refused to try it but she had bought one at the market anyway. Apparently they are full of protein and can be eaten at any stage of development. This one, however, was only a few days off hatching when it had been boiled and was very much a formed duck chick. Rather gross!
After cooking we sat down to try our morning's efforts then were presented with a few recipes to take home and some cooking utensils. We then soaked up as much sun as we could on the beach for a last relaxing afternoon in Nha Trang.
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oatcake mum Not sure what your picture is but it looks like something mrs Hall dissects out of someones abdomen on a Wednesday morning. Awesome McAwesome says your cookery course sounds right up her street. She particularly enjoyed the bit about "skinning and chopping up a live frog!!" She's booking herself onto a Vietnamese cookery course as we speak!!
Pasty Mum Well, I'll be very interested to see what culinary delights Vietnamese-style you'll be "persuading" us to try on your return! Probably best not to try smuggling in any embryos, crickets or t-r--t-l-- (can't bear to type that word in full!!). Not worth putting their justice system or British Embassy loyalty to the test!! PS Great photos!!!
TrainMan I'll just have a pizza please!
Dad I'm delighted to see you kids are having such a good time. Have to say I'm amazed, astounded and taken aback by all your photos. Nevertheless there's one that's now beginning to haunt me, especially when I go to bed and start to doze off. We all know the one, don't we Luke. All this hair, is it real or is it stuck on? Is it some form of sun protection instead of sun block? Or just a northern thing to keep you warm in the winter? Emma C., that big tank in the lounge is still available. It'd make an ideal turtle sanctuary! Hope it continues to be as great a holiday as it has been so far. Be safe, both of you. PS Luke, you're letting the side down, more photos of the local talent, please!