After another amazing breakfast, me and Michelle, took some bikes and cycled to the Ancient Town. We had a little map and I was trying to locate some pottery making which we soon realised was far out of the town.
The pottery village that was too far away!
We went into the 'Old House of Quân Thang.' There was an old man who took our tickets. He explained that he lived in the house and he was the sixth generation of his family to live there. The house had a Japanese section, a Chinese section and a Vietnamese section.
He was trying to learn English so we helped him pronounce words such as 'style' and 'inner tube' (he had the words on a bit of paper!) There wasn't much to see in the old house so we moved on to a temple.
We went to the Quân Công Temple. The guy on the door very kindly let us in without tickets. It was a Chinese style temple, which had many intricate patterns.
The front of the temple
The back of the temple where people could pray
On our way out, the guy at the door asked us the year we were born and said we could buy a lucky coin. Mine was the monkey.
My year of the money lucky coin
We had some lunch- some Vietnamese spring rolls, which taste so good! And then decided we'd beat the rain and head to the beach. We somehow managed to park our bikes for free- (not in one of the bike parking places that they try and get you to use) and chilled on the beach for a bit.
Not wanting to push our luck, we headed back to the hotel before the rain came. We met an American guy by the pool so we all headed out to have dinner at this place that Michelle's friend had recommended, called 'Bale Well.'
When we reached the road where the restaurant should be and there was a sign saying it was 50m down a slight alleyway. In Vietnam, distances tend to be a rough guess rather than an actual distance, so after we had walked for over 50 meters we saw a sign saying it was 20m away to the left. We followed that path round to find nothing but people's houses. After heading back to the sign again, walking straight for a bit, we finally found the restaurant.
We sat down and were immediately presented with food! We told them that we hadn't ordered but they said that there is only one set menu.
The set menu at Bale Well
They brought out some small bowls of what we thought were soup. We were trying to work out how we could eat some soup with chop sticks, when the woman came back with some lettuce, a bowl of veg, spring rolls, rice paper and some meat on sticks.
The food we were given
She explained that the 'soup' was actually sauce. You had to take 2 sheets of rice paper, add some lettuce and veg, a spring roll, then put the meat on and pull it off the stick. Then wrap the rice paper around it to form a giant spring roll type thing, which you could then dip in the sauce.
Me with one I made myself!
The food was very good and we left the restaurant very full- and we only got caught in a little bit of rain on the way back!
That food looks amazing.
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