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Galavanting in Southeast Asia: Vietnam Part Two: "Street Food Touring Vietnamese-Style"

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Ro and Lotus As mentioned in our last blog ( Part One ) our bus broke down in a small town in Northern Vietnam.  We were  making the best of the experience by enjoying some lively Australian company at a local coffee shop, but beginning to stress because we had booked a food tour back in Hanoi and the time to drive back was going to be very tight. Finally our repaired van did come to pick us up.  We arrived back in Hanoi about 5 minutes past our agreed upon pick-up time, which was pretty good considering the circumstances.  We were super excited to try an international food tour a) because we own a food tour  ourselves in Seattle and b) because this one was on a moped--vroom, vroom! The manager of the Hanoi street food tour and two young women with helmets were outside our hotel when we arrived ready to whisk us away. We paid the manager for the tour and never had to worry about paying for any of the food we ate again all night (and you'll soon read about just how muc

Galavanting in Southeast Asia: Vietnam Part 1: "and so the adventure begins"

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Our most excellent adventures continue and this time to Southeast Asia.  Apologies for the pause in posting blogs, but we were very busy starting up our new food tour business Taste Seattle Food Tours .  Are we crazy?  Of course!  But there was a method to our madness—we both have a passion for food and sharing out beautiful city of Seattle so a food tour was the perfect medium to do both.  Plus, we figured we could take time off during the winter season for our other passion traveling. Speaking of travel—this year we each picked a place from our respective bucket lists.   For Ro, being an island girl at heart, she had always found Bali to be a place she hoped to visit.  We decided this would be a perfect place to get some sunshine in January.   Early in Flo’s childhood and after the Vietnam War had ended she remembers having a young Vietnamese man who was attending the local university visit her family.   He was trying to bring the rest of his family to the United States.   With