Sapa

Once again, I’m sitting again while Tra My and her mother cooks.  I go to restaurants and people cook for me all the time, I visit friends and they cook for me, but I do not usually sit in my own kitchen as someone cooks for me.  And I rarely sit and do absolutely nothing while someone cooks in my kitchen.

It is unnerving.

Tonight the dinner party is vegetarian—tofu and soft tomato.  I have no idea what that is but there is lemon grass, cabbage, maybe some garlic.  Everyday, well almost everyday is a culinary adventure.  

But I want to start writing about our Sapa adventure.  A week ago tonight, we took the night bus from Hanoi to Sapa.  The ride to Sapa will be a separate post.

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