Jan 24 22:30 local time
Just back from dinner at a fabulous seafood restaurant.
Prawns, clams in spicy brown sauce, oysters (cooked and spiced differently), seafood noodle dish, Thai Tom Yum soup.
Picture is of part of dinner.
The table next to us had a birthday party. Cake included with the Happy B'Day song. Got up to take a picture, with their permission, and they gave me a glass of the celebratory drink (not Champagne but a fruit juice packaged as Champagne). Very hospitable.
Turns out that they started singing Happy B'Day about 10-15 years ago when the economy got better. In earlier years they were scrambling for food and cloths and birthdays were not celebrated.
Thrang, my guide from the first trip, very gratiously invited me to both a wedding of a friend and best of all to have Tet with his family. He cleared it with his grandmother. Talk about welcoming and friendly! Will report on the wedding on Friday – I think that is when it is.
Off in the morning to a 'home visit'. Just me and Thrang and a driver .
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