A flautist and singer by Hoan Kiem Lake.
The passageway behind a photography shop in Ta Hien Street.
Down a laneway off Hang Buom Street, someone is getting a haircut.
In another laneway off
Hang Buom Street, people are eating breakfast.
A delicate terracotta tile on the ground
outside a pagoda near our hotel.
On Thursday evening we accompanied my friend Thanh to hear the Vietnam Symphony Orchestra at the Hanoi Opera House. The building is a replica of the Paris Opera House and beautiful. This past week we heard Rossini, Faure and Dvorak. On Tuesday evening we are off to hear La Boheme with some AVI friends. I was regretting not getting to La Boheme in Marysville today and here it is in Hanoi. This is a city of many surprises and so many sensate experiences.
Last night we ate at a wonderful restaurant called Anh Tuyet with two of my very old friends from UNICEF days: Sit and Huong. Anh Tuyet is a traditional Vietnamese restaurant and has been operating for possibly over a 100 years. The food was wonderful and the dessert, well just a bounty of flavour. It has a base of green bean sauce which looked opaque and gelatinous,, to which had been added the flavours of grapefruit flowers and betel nut flowers, We all added teaspoons of young rice and both the flavour and the perfume was wonderful!
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