Hanoi viewed through Leica M

Rayt said:
No I don’t speak German. It’s a global company with offices worldwide and I was a legal manager for Asia Pacific compliance issues. I am American and we have delicatessen everywhere and head cheese is pretty common maybe not as good as what Germans get. At least Chinese offals are fresh and unprocessed though troublesome if the food look at you while you are eating it! Street photography is fine in Vietnam so don’t worry about it. I have been to places and people chase you down if you did that. Morocco is such a place.
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Only Casablanca, Rick's Place. ;o)
 
boojum said:
Only Casablanca, Rick's Place. ;o)
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I believe it was Oscar Wilde who once said you should never eat anything larger than your head.

And someone else (not Oskar) who opined that it's bad manners to eat food while it stares at you.

As I'm now 95%+ vegetarian my era of eating parts of things deceased are long past. A little fish now and then, yes. Red meat, never. Today's commercial chicken has too many antibiotics stuffed into it while it slave-labors in the egg laying pens before it gets taken out and given a head twirl and that part of it is then chopped off. Ghastly I know (and not in good taste to be writing about it so I'll cease my Dante's Inferno comments about food now, except to say my diet is now mostly plant-based with tempeh and tofu and some soy protein and occasionally a fish fest which accounts for that last 5% of my food-stuffing. I suffer much less by abstaining from meat than does my SO who is Chinese and from a family of dedicated carnivores dating back to a great many generations. Lunches and dinners when we visit them in Malaysia is a maelstrom of exotic dishes covering large tables, but they are kindly folk and always provide good veggie (usually tofu and tempeh based) gourmet courses for me. Otherwise I'm entirely happy with my choice of food and if you see me you know I'm not wasting away from malnutrition...

How ever did we get on to this aside? Last thing I recall we were on the topic of Hanoi, a place I've yet to visit but intend to with my arsenal of camera while I can still walk and carry a Nikon D700 or D800 and before I pop off to the land of great clouds. The images in this great thread have inspired me to plan a return visit to Vietnam - my first since 1975 when I spent six amazing weeks in Saigon before the place went socialist and everything changed. I recall the many photo retail shops in Cholon where I had my B&W films processes and I bought a Nikkormat FT2 there from a seller desperate to get some foreign cash, about four days before I flew out of Vietnam to Bangkok - and on to an entirely new phase in my eventful life.

Hanoi is a place I most definitely want to visit. Saigon/Ho Chi Minh, well, I've been there, tho' a short stopover to walk the streets of the city centre again for my old memories, such as they are, to return.

Some truly great images in this thread, btw. And most enjoyable comments from intelligent travellers. A real treat!
 
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DownUnder said:
I believe it was Oscar Wilde who once said you should never eat anything larger than your head.

And someone else (not Oskar) who opined that it's bad manners to eat food while it stares at you.

As I'm now 95%+ vegetarian my era of eating parts of dead animals are long past. A little fish now and then, yes. But red meat, never. Today's commercial chicken has too many antibiotics stuffed into it while it slave-labors in the egg laying pens before it gets taken out and given a head twirl and that part of it is then chopped off. Ghastly I know (and not in good taste to be writing about it so I'll cease my Dante's Inferno comments about food now, except to say my diet is now mostly plant-based with tempeh and tofu and some soy protein and occasionally a fish fest which accounts for that last 5% of my food-stuffing. I suffer much less by abstaining from meat than does my SO who is Chinese and from a family of dedicated carnivores dating back to a great many generations. Lunches and dinners when we visit them in Malaysia is a maelstrom of exotic dishes covering large tables, but they are kindly folk and always provide good veggie (usually tofu and tempeh based) gourmet courses for me. Otherwise I'm perfectly happy with my choice of food and if you saw me you would realise I'm definitely not wasting away from malnutrition...

How ever did we get on to this aside? Last thing I recall we were on the topic of Hanoi, a place I've yet to visit but intend to with my arsenal of camera while I can still walk and carry a Nikon D700 or D800 and before I pop off to the land of great clouds. The images in this great thread have inspired me to plan a return visit to Vietnam - my first since 1975 when I spent six amazing weeks in Saigon before the place went socialist and everything changed. I recall the many photo retail shops in Cholon where I had my B&W films processes and I bought a Nikkormat FT2 there from a seller desperate to get some foreign cash, about four days before I flew out of Vietnam to Bangkok - and on to an entirely new phase in my eventful life.

Hanoi is a place I most definitely want to visit. Saigon/Ho Chi Minh, well, I've been there, tho' a short stopover to walk the streets of the city centre again for the old memories, such s they were, to return.

Some truly great images in this thread, btw. And most enjoyable comments from intelligent travellers. A real treat!
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I believe the thread has stimulated interest in this lovely country with its lovely people. Travelers reports bear this out. I look forward to getting off the plane, taking a cab to my rental, getting a meal and starting to see the wonderful things I flew halfway around the world to see.

I am beginning to believe that kiemchacsu either works for the Chamber of Commerce or the Tourist Board. If he doesn't they should hire him! LOL He has curried interest. He has been very helpful to me in ideas and suggestions. My trip is better even before I leave home.
 
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