Elias has told me that he has found a buyer for my bike, so after breakfast I go for a look around to see how much it will cost me. There is a place opposite the hostel that I check first, he is looking 500,000, I know that is ridiculous an so I'm not interested in that. I check another few places in the surrounding area, a lot of them don't fix the Honda Win, bizarre as there are so many here with the amount of back packers. I decide to give spencer a call and see if he can shed any light on good places to go. He meets me and we head out into the busy streets of HCM, with him on the back of my bike. First time I've had a passenger, and it's in the busiest place in Vietnam. Ha. Spencer is a brave man. We head down a narrow little street where spencer gets his bike fixed. The guy comes over and takes a look at the issues. He says he will have to go and buy the parts as he doesn't have them, so we decide we will just go to the market and buy ourselves. I show him my electric starter, he starts it with no problem, tells me I don't need it changed. Turns out that you don't need to put on the gas, just push the button. Right enough, I give it a go and off she starts, purring away nicely. Would have been good to know this from the start, would have made things a lot easier.
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So we head to the market, must take us about half an hour, with spencer on the back checking the directions on his phone as we go. We eventually get there and I park the Moto, instantly some guy comes running from one of the stalls asking what we are after. Spencer talks with him about the lights I need fixed, the guy then comes over and takes apart my lights so he can go and find them in the market, Spencer goes with and I wait with Jessie, make sure she doesn't fall over. When he comes back I move my bike round the street to where the guy is going to fix it for me. All in we are getting it done for 300,000, so it was well worth the trip out here. You can literally get everything for your Moto here, stalls are so full of stock it resembles dad's garage, the difference being that they can find what they are looking for. This is typical of everywhere in Vietnam, every stall, shop or street vendor packed to maximum capacity. I am not sure they will ever sell all their stuff.
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After the fix it's time to get Spencer back because he has a job interview. One has to drive with purpose to make it back in time. As I get to one of the busy roundabouts I feel Jessie spluttering, I'm pretty sure I know what's going to happen. She dies right in the middle of the roundabout, Spencer jumps off and starts pushing me. I am out of petrol! Spencer is panicking about his interview, I tell him not to worry. Ha. He pushes my round a couple of streets until we find a petrol station and get some juice in my girl. Fuelled and ready to go we head back out and I manage to get Spencer back in time. He is pleased. I head on to get Jessie washed, she is somewhat dirty from the trip, a nice clean up will have her shiny and ready for sale. The boys do a good job of cleaning her up, in fact she looks so good that I want to keep her, but, no time to sell. I let Elias know that she is ready and he tells me he will let me know when he meets the guy.
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The 4 of us head out for dinner, we ask at the hostel for some good Vietnamese food and we head out. It is a good dander but we get to this place on the street that has a BBQ. They have no tables so we are about to move on when suddenly a table gets lifted from the back and 4 chairs placed around it. Brilliant. In this place we have some new food to try. A delicacy. Some delicious goat's nipples. That's right. Goat nipples! We get a portion of those bad boys ordered up. When they arrive they don't look like the nipples I imagined. It is a longer thin strip, I think they take a lot of skin, and nipples, then flatten it out. Mmmm delicious. On to the BBQ, when I first try, it tastes exactly how you think a nipple would taste. The texture, the chew. Not so good. The second piece I try I cook it for a lot longer, the nipple is much more tender and enjoyable. After the nipples we have a seafood hot pot and I order some of the sesame crackers from a street seller. A great meal, where I end up taking the piss out of Elias' accent, I have myself in tears.
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After dinner we head out to find a bar, Spencer is in the mood for some shisha and so he takes us off in that direction. The place we head to ends up being closed, so Spencer asks for directions to another. We get to this shisha bar, very clean and very fancy. We choose raspberry and pomegranate. It soon arrives in an ornate pipe, and we get treated to a belly dancing show. Trying the shisha was interesting. The flavoured tobacco fills your mouth and I would liken it to candy floss. An experience. After this we head home for some sleep.