Just polished off five liters of Vietnamese home brew with some friends after dinner here in the border town of Lang Son. These dodgy beers were about 70 cents a piece and bottled in old green one-liter Sprite bottles.
The dodgy beers were a nice compliment to the dodgy food I gathered at the hocker stalls. I had three dodgy spring rolls, two dodgy skewers of barbecue meat (not necessarily identifiable), dodgy noodles with meat (again not sure what the meat was, but it appeared to be fowl of some sort), and some dodgy duck (which included chopped up head and bill). All this for the bargain price of 15000 dong. That's about one US dollar to you and me. The food was great, but definitely dodgy for a western stomach. After this combination of dodgy food and beer, I'm waiting and hoping...
I'm cutting this journal entry short. I have an early start tomorrow. Crossing into China shouldn't be a problem, but who knows.
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