Saturday, March 1, 2008

Frog to Crab: "Let's be friends"

Recently we've discovered the Saigon night market. When Cho Bến Thành closes around 6pm they bring out the food stalls. They have a lot of interesting and really good food. Coconut snails is a favorite of ours.

In the photo below you can see that they keep the frogs and the crabs in the same tank. It's kind of cute how they wrap up the crab claws with cloth so they don't fight. Can't we all just get along?

We also tried the grilled shrimp, which was delicious. This guy was in charge of the shrimp. They rolled out the tanks before the electricity was hooked up so he was swishing the water around trying to keep it aerated. At one point he pulled off the hose from the air pump and was trying to blow through it. Luckily the electricity came on before too long.