13 sept Rest day in Qui Nhon

Our breakfast this morning was at a little Noodle stand that sold pork liver and pork blood con gee it was a typical Vietnamese local stall where everyone sits on low plastic stools and eat off a small plastic table..again we just ate whatever everyone had,,surprisingly I have not had the runs yet after eating street food for 9 days but Lou had it on the 2 nd day after eating some sauce with "Belacan" (shrimp paste)..later we went to the wet market to find fruits..we bought rambutans,dragon fruits and we also bought some local Vietnamese cakes(kuih) then I went looking for some batteries.
we then went to have coffee at a nice trendy coffee shop next to a hotel...the place is pack with local on this Saturday morning enjoying the coffee,,they had old parachute as shades..very ingenious..coffee is very good as usual.. A young trendy Vietnamese guy from the next table said hello and came over to ask where we were from He spoke good English..later we found out he was a "Viet Khieu" (overseas Vietnamese..those who have fled Vietnam as refugees he is now living and working in Houston Texas with his father and mother,he then invited us back to his sister's house for Lunch...we rode our bicycle there and met his sisters and younger brother who was all waiting to migrate to the U.S. the lunch that his elder sister cook was fantastic we had calamari..beef with lemongrass.some kind of soup and he let us try some of his home brewed rice wine,after Lunch we all went to another coffee shop in another hotel by the beach..in fact it was the same beach we were staying on but this was the southern end ..its a very very long crescent shape beach...Lou said it reminded him of his hometown..Gurney Drive....after the coffee Phoung said He will take us for Local fish Noodles tomorrow for breakfast the local specialty of Qui Nhon town
After we had a rest back at the Hotel we went for dinner next door to Babara's,its a Seafood restaurant..we had seafood fried rice and a specialty of the restaurant called "LAU" which is similar to our steam boat but this is with Mackerel fish and veggies and you eat the soup and veggies with "BUN" rice vermicelli the soup is like the thai "tom yum" slightly spicy and sour and a little bit sweet ...so after that I am now at the inter-net cafe typing up the days blog...... tomorrow another day for me in Quin Nhon ..maybe Lou will start to cycle to Nha trang.....