Archive for August, 2007
Well-balanced meals
As the Introduction to Vietnam and Hue says, of the countless Vietnamese dishes, there are about 1300 dishes specific to Hue. Of these about 700 are popular among the Hue people. There are three ingredients almost always used in cooking: fish sauce, salt, and shrimp paste. Spices are used in everything, [...]
Century Riverside
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Breakfast at the Century Riverside. Don’t forget your breakfast card.
Bode Restaurant
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The Bode Restaurant is across from the LRC on Le Loi street. Quietly popular, it has been expanding steadily to the left and the right in this picture. Monks ate at the Bode almost every lunch, and next door a temple is being built.
Tinh Tam Restaurant
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The Tinh Tam Restaurant has beef, chicken, ears, and small intestines on the menu, but fear not, vegetarians, all is tofu.
Tay Nguyen
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The Tay Nguyen restaurant is on the Perfume River, to the right in this picture. To the left are two tennis courts. Usually tables are set up outside for large parties.
In Review
Quan Am
This entry is written by Sydney Plum who visited Hue in July. She and Nhiên toured many of the Buddhist sites.
I spilled off the back of the motorbike at the foot of a stairway and watched as Nhiên bought incense sticks and a bottle of water from the vendor, who also told her [...]
Quan Am Buddha, Hue
Quan Am Buddha, Hue
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The Quan Am or Lady Buddha, after climbing the stairs. Note that the marble hand rails are not dragon stairs, with the dragon head facing downward, but instead are two lions or unicorns, playing with the world.
Quan Am on hillside
Quan Am on hillside
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Quan Am as approached by motor bike. It is visible on the hill from the Perfume River (Hương Giang), and from the nearby Mausoleum of Khai Dinh, the penultimate Nguyen emperor.
