Comment of the night at our table in the famous Chinese restaurant on Nguyen Trai at 2am from a Canadian guy who had been in Viet Nam for only 3 days. He joined Landon and I with a group of No.5 Bar staff and young street flower sellers for supper.

Also on the menu, ducks tongues and intestine.

I stuck to rice porridge, fried chicken and raw prawns marinated in lemon juice and soaked in soy and wasabi.