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Today we are eating lunch at the Bale Well in Hoi An. This is a very small local restaurant.
They have a fixed menu. Actually there is no menu. They just bring you food and you
pay a fixed price and you eat as much as you want. There focus is on country pancakes and
spring rolls. Which we both love!
You take the salad, cucumber, kimchi and a spring roll. It is going to be crunchy. Now
that is a special roll. That has got meat. Thank you very much. So I dip it here? Give
it a try Audrey. Here we go. How is that? Wow, hard to bite huh?
So you are going to what? Well, Sam here wasn't paying attention to whole assembly process,
so I will have to demonstrate how to roll a spring roll. Okay, so we add a little bit
of greens including some lettuce. A bit of fumbling with the chopsticks there. Hey, don't
be hating. Then she said this is our kimchi which looks a bit different from the kimchi
we ate in Korea. This is Vietnamese style Kimchi. It must be pickled vegetables. Then
she added a spring roll. Don't forget the meat. Let's try this one. Yeah, try a smaller
one. I don't know if it is chicken or beef but it looks good and smells good. Now that
is a super loaded roll. Ok, now to roll it tightly. Viola! This is it. Now you add just
a little bit of chilly to the sauce. It is kind of a peanut based sauce I think. And
we dip and enjoy!
Oh, there comes more food. Oh wow, here is the country pancakes. Yum.
So this delectable roll. This time instead of the spring roll it has the country pancake
inside of it. So we're going to give it a try. Is that better? These rolls are amazing!
You've got pancakes, springs rolls, the greens, the skewered satay all in this. Happy boy!
And if that feast wasn't enough we've got a little sweet treat to end off with. What
flavor did you get? I got cherry.
And the dessert just keeps on coming. Now we have fresh pineapples. Do you have any
room for that? No, but I'll eat it.
Okay, seriously that was the feast of feasts. Normally country pancakes or spring rolls
or satay taste great on their own but all wrapped up together in one big roll dipped
into a peanut sauce. WOW!
Our lunch came to one hundred and eighty thousand *** which is about nine dollars. I think
that is a great price because they just kept bringing out plates and plates of food and
we were stuffed and then they were offering us dessert and it was like 'oh, I don't want
to turn it down I guess I'll eat it anyway' so yeah it was a great selection there.
The service there is really friendly almost in a very unique kind of way. There was one
time when the lady was coming over and she looked like it appeared she was going to be
wrapping up a roll for us but instead she just grabbed a satay and plopped it right
in Audrey's mouth and at the very end of the meal she came over and noticed I was looking
hot and she undid a napkin for me. I thought she was going to put it in my hands. Oh, no.
She just came and rubbed my whole face right down. Oh yeah.