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full moon bar in hoi an

So we arrive in hoi an and manage to get a cheap froom with a tv for four people and head out to eat our first beef poh. Beef poh is a beef glass noodle soup with a pork meatball, beansprouts and various herbs and spices and it is amazing. We also bought some pork dumblings that come in the nicest dough and are about the size of a small cake. We ate on the street on little plastic stools and a makeshift table. I can't remember how much it cost but for all four of us you could have only bought one course in a restaurant. We headed off to tam tam's the best bar in hoi an to knock back some tigers and play some pool. Then rumor was it that there was this really good bar called the full moon bar about a ten minute bike ride from town, so when the bar shut at about mid-night we all got a moto driver each and headed off, it was raining cats and dogs and my moto drivers doing about 80 kph, scary but fun! The full moon bar didn't live up to expectations and we were the first people there. It picked up a little but we only stayed a few hours.
The next day i caught that cold had been doing the rounds and spent the day in bed. Felt a bit better after taking some thai cold medicine and headed out to eat, we found a restaurant that served fresh beer hoi for about twenty cents a glass. We stayed there about an hour or two, i had fried wan tohn a local speciality but i found them a bit too greasy. We headed back to tam-tam's and met up with some irish chap called dermot and a girl called phiona and rumor was it that absolutely everyone was going to the full moon, they were going so we thought might as well. So after another hair raising motorbike race we are again the first people there, not good we think. Within half an hour the place was packed, the owner let phiona, ben and i do the music, we had the place heaving, well it wasn't exactly my kind of music but i gave in to playing michael jackson and who let the dogs out, woof woof woof!! The owner was giving us free drinks and even gave phiona some money. We left about five all very happy, especially ben and phiona. Woke up the next day and had a walk round hoi an, a lovely french colonial town, very laid back and with amazing french and vietnamese architecture, lots of tailors everywhere and a lovely market that i spent an hour looking at all the differant food stalls fresh fruit and vegtables, live and dead meat and fish, fresh and dried herbs and spices along with an auray of other goods. Headed to tam-tams for a game of pool and i met dermot who's a chef, he'd been here quite a while and had got friendly with a vietnamese family who owned a restaurant. He was a pastry chef and had made the daughter a 21st birthday cake and after that he had carte blanche to use what ever he wanted in the kitchen. They were keen to put some farang food on the menu so that night he was cooking fish pie and i went along as his comi chef. It was chaos in that kitchen but was really interesting to watch the vietnamese cook their dish's. We made a really good fish pie with prawns, fish, a chilli and green bean white sauce and pastry to die for, we cut out the name of the restaurant out of the left over pastry and put it on the top. They loved it and we had free beer for the evening. We left to go to tam-tam's and then the full moon bar, it wasn't that busy but we knew everyone and i hooked up a killer pool tornament with everyone putting in a dolla. That night the owner took us back on his bike and we had beef noodle soup for breakfast about six o'clock in the morning. Caught a few hours sleep then woke up to catch yet another arduous bus journey to hue.

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