You can find all sorts of wonderful, wacky and weird things at a wet market in Vietnam. Lots of crazy scents, colours, shapes and sounds. Here we have a big mother fuckin’ bucket full of creepy little snakes… You won’t find me eating snake anytime soon, but obviously lots of people do. Too bad I didn’t have the brains to take a photo of the giant python that was skinned and rolled up like a ummmm… giant dead python. Cutlets in soup perhaps?

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I recently returned from a holiday to Vietnam, where for five days we had the pleasure of staying in the small and exquisitely beautiful fishing/tourist/beachside city of Nha Trang. One one particularly overcast day, we decided to charter a boat to take us around the islands for some touristy fun. I hopped on a jet ski and sped around the bay, did some parasailing and of course dined on some fresh from the ocean seafood.

And by fresh from the ocean, I really mean it. The boat stopped at a floating platfrom where all sorts of seafood was being kept in cages in the ocean. Pick the stuff you like, take it to one of the restauraunts waiting by the shore and they will cook it up for you. Can’t get any fresher than that.

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View from the hotel roof. Beautiful mountains in the background with lovely white beaches and blue water.

Houses a little way out of town, you can see a group of fishing boats parked in the cove.

Cruising by one of the many islands around the area.

The platform where one can select the seafood of their choice. Here we have lobster and crayfish, these guys also had cuttle fish and a billion varieties of fish.

One lobster dish. I’m not the biggest fan of ginger but it tasted nice.

This second lobster dish was much nicer than the first. I love pepper.

The fish was a bit tough I’m sorry to say, kind of like chewing on a car tyre…. Ok it wasn’t that bad.

I’ve never had cuttle fish before, not surprisingly it tasted and had a texture similar to that of squid.

The whole meal, minus the tempura cuttle fish bits.

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