Thursday, December 22, 2005

I'm a celebrity, GET ME OUT OF HERE!!!!


Oh Dear! Just had a few Hoi Beers, that's draft beer for 6p in the streets of Hanoi, dangerous!!! They we went to a restaurant recommended in the Lonely Planet, which so far have been great recomendations, though this time I think they got it a bit wrong. I am sure that someone had a shave in my food tonight as I kept finding lots of little hairs (the type you'd find in a Gillette Match III) mmmm.... I think if any of my spanish relatives came here they would die of starvation you see because when you need to go to the loo you often need to walk through the kitchen (yeah I know!!) and...well walking throught the kitchen tonight (luckerly after my hairy dinner) reminded me a little of the TV show "I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here".
Now there's a point to this story because Chris and I have been wanting to do something interactive with you guys, so it reminded us of a brilliant idea we had a few days ago which went something like.."Why don't we tell our friends and family about the things you can have to eat in Vietnam and then get them to vote on what local delicacies we should sample?"

So that's what this entry is about (conveniently at Christmas so hopefully not too many people will vote), here are the options, please us the comments to vote on what you think our Christmasey feast should be spiced up with:

Option 1 :Frogs legs
(Neither of us have tried them and despite people saying they taste like chicken....they look pretty slimy to us!)

Option 2 : Woof woof!
Yeah there's dog on sale just round the corner in the market. According to the Vietnamese it's good luck top eat in in the second half of the lunar month - so lucky us if you vote for this one! Chris says he will give dogs a knowing and masterful look from now on if he knows he has eaten one (as a psychologist I'm slightly perturbed by his illusions of grandieur).

Option 3: Snake
But not just any snake, oh no, why not have it brought alive to your table and then they can pour it's blood into a goblet so you can drink it(aparently it makes you strong but don;t even bother voting for this one, I'll just stage it, there's no way I'd do it!)

Option 4: Sauce made of refined insect semen
It's a dipping sauce. I think the title says it all. It is what it is ok.

Option 5: Chicken
Ooooh this is a dangerous option! You can't even get eggs here at breakfast because of bird flu, it's that bad! You can vote for it but it'll be on your conscious if we die!!!

Option 6: A whole crab
It's called soft shell crab and you can have the whole thing in batter or breadcrumbs, just imagine those little black eyes staring sadly at us though.

Option 7: Cake filled with meat
All I'm saying is...if you love us you'll vote for this one! Disgusting but I think I can do it.

The rules: a) no annonymous votes will be counted, b) we WILL do it and post a photo evidence for your entertainment c) remember we know where you live AND it's the season of good will.

Love you all LOTS!!!!!

Spam and Crisp

P.S. Be kind x

21 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

My vote is for the crab, I was going to say snakes blood but that would be to cruel.... (I feel queezy just thinking about it)

Anyhow have a great christmas, and I will tell the nortel lot to get voting.... what have you let yourselves if for :-)you crazy guys.

All the best,
Andy.

2:13 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I vote for Dog
Jules votes for Dog

So that's 2 for the hound and I want pictures!

2:30 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hi guys

Hope you're having a great time out there. Until you eat dog of course!

Woof woof. Gets my vote :)

Merry Xmas

Matt H

2:32 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I've got to go for the Dog, as they say "when in rome ...".

Keep up the blogging, it's a great read, even if it is a bit depressing on a monday morning at work!

Merry Christmas both.
James

2:32 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hi,

Looks like you are having lots of fun out there, productivity is getting slower and slower over here through jealousy.

I don't like the idea of killing a poor little puppy dog, so have to go for the snake:)

Merry Christmas,
Andy K

2:42 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Out of sympathy for the dog and the snake I'll go for the crab

2:44 PM  
Blogger Search Ladder said...

You asked for this :) I go for the snake to even out the votes.

3:13 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Merry Merry you guys

Can't be the dog it must be snake !

Cheers Andre

3:35 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Our vote is for Snake.
Can't be dog as I cannot get a picture of Chip out of my head on a dinner plate!.

3:47 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

It has to be dog, I feel there are too many puppy lovers and not enough snake lovers voting here :-)

I'll ask Catherine, but for some reason I don't think she'll agree with my vote.

Alex dC

4:10 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

if you eat puppy dogs i will disown you. think of those cute little eyes and velvety ears! a dog is for life - not just to eat for christmas! i vote crab. they walk sideways and that's just wrong! john votes snake!

6:23 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

If you do eat dogs, I'll send someone out there to make you eat chicken!

10:11 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I'm going for snake just to outweigh the dog votes and I'm taking the liberty of voting on behalf of tito and papa so that's 3 votes for snake ..... save the dogs!!!

10:20 PM  
Blogger Chris said...

Blimey! I thought you would all be on holiday by now and not checking the internet ! Sam is crying because too many people have voted for the snake. Remember the dog is already dead, and the snake comes live to your table.
We aren't counting votes on behalf of other people. So far the votes are:
Snake : 6
Dog : 4
Crab : 3
Insect semen : 2

We will give it another day, and will be having what ever festive delight you decide for either Christmas Lunch or Boxing Day lunch. Await the photos, and keep voting.

1:17 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

My sick husband is forcing me to vote for dog! I'm told that the dog is already dead so that's my vote...

Very jealous of you guys (just the food experience bit!), hope you have an awesome Christmas!

9:10 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

My vote is for dog dipped in insect jiz. If they show you how to extract insect jiz it could be worth it.

However live snake oozing blood sounds the most offensive so am happy to see that too.

Gazza

9:39 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

If you eat a dog I will never let you cuddle me again. But a live snake is horrible. So my vote is for Crab (easy easy easy easy)

10:02 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

snake :)

10:40 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hi!!

I'm voting for dog because pigs are cute too :P

Have a wonderful Christmas!!

Cath
xxx

6:58 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

i was going vote for crab but am told by matt there is point at this stage so i guess i'm gonna have to vote for snake as ruth has threatened me with no christmas present if i vote for dog. could you disguise crab as dog and lie?

11:29 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

carol and ian say go for the crab, and after a few drinks....hic! if you walk sideways you can always blame it on the crab. Happy Christmas

4:16 PM  

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