Transit – Changi – Vietnam Day 1

With Country Joe and the Fish in my head (Feel like I’m fixin’ to die rag http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xuUBCF3KKxc) we’re off to Vietnam.

It’s our honeymoon, so first a huge thanks to everyone’s very generous contributions to our travel registry. We’re here because of you all, thank you.

Here is presently Changi, the Golden Kris lounge at Terminal 3 (in true Singapore Airlines style, the posh lounge is the Silver Kris, the partner members are gold).

I’ve just eaten congee for third breakfast. I succumbed to its charms. I’m no big fan of congee, if I want to consume something that kind of feels like warm vomit, well let’s just say I don’t. It’s charms, however, the idea that you add lots of other interesting things to improve the taste and texture, well I’m occasionally a sucker for them. Who doesn’t like the crispy deep fried onions? Thinking about it, maybe that’s the whole point of congee, it’s the excuse someone came up with who didn’t want to be seen just eating deep fried onion bits (the western world then came up with onion rings and obesity but that’s beside the point…)

Regular followers of these travel ramblings (of which there may be two or three) will note that food is a very common theme in our travels. People must think that we like food and travel (cos we have been gifted over time a shelf load of cooking travel books).

This trip will be more of the same. Much, much more of the same. We’re doing a food-themed organised tour of Vietnam, land of rice paper rolls, pho, dead snakes in jars of spirits, and who knows what else. And hopefully we’ll be having all these and more, and sharing the results here (and at L’s fabulous twoweeksaway blog).