For our first farewell dinner in Saigon, our tour leader, Tan, took us to a dinner place that offered many kinds of meat that you grill yourself at your table. We decided to see how many different kinds of meat we could eat in one meal (i.e. increase our kill count), so many of us ordered different things.
Because I had a shrimp spring roll as an appetizer, I ended up with the biggest kill count at 8: shrimp, beef, rabbit, goat, frog, ostrich, shellfish (clams, I think), and ... snake. I ordered the last one just for the novelty; it came in a hot pot that cooked at the table and it was quite tasty, although a little hard to eat due to the internal spine.
After dinner, we decided to let loose a little, so we went to the Blue Gecko, an Australian bar a few doors down. They clearly knew Tan there, because we all got some free shots, and it was hard to buy him a round because free drinks kept showing up for him. We played some pool for a while, and after everyone else left, Rob, Michelle, Dennise and I decided to check out a club named Apocalypse Now. There, we got a taste of the fairly forward prostitution; as we walked upstairs, the host welcomed me and Rob and ushered us towards two girls at the bar, despite the fact that we were clearly both with partners.
The club had some appropriate touches, with oil barrels as tables, paintings reminiscent of the movie, and t-shirts on the staff that read, "May I help you, sir!" We joked that they should play "The End" every night for last call. It was quite a popular place, and I think the highlight of the evening was dancing with a bunch of locals and foreigners to "It's Raining Men".
For our first farewell dinner in Saigon, our tour leader, Tan, took us to a dinner place that offered many kinds of meat that you grill yourself at your table. We decided to see how many different kinds of meat we could eat in one meal (i.e. increase our kill count), so many of us ordered different things. 
Because I had a shrimp spring roll as an appetizer, I ended up with the biggest kill count at 8: shrimp, beef, rabbit, goat, frog, ostrich, shellfish (clams, I think), and ... snake. I ordered the last one just for the novelty; it came in a hot pot that cooked at the table and it was quite tasty, although a little hard to eat due to the internal spine.
After dinner, we decided to let loose a little, so we went to the Blue Gecko, an Australian bar a few doors down. They clearly knew Tan there, because we all got some free shots, and it was hard to buy him a round because free drinks kept showing up for him. We played some pool for a while, and after everyone else left, Rob, Michelle, Dennise and I decided to check out a club named Apocalypse Now. There, we got a taste of the fairly forward prostitution; as we walked upstairs, the host welcomed me and Rob and ushered us towards two girls at the bar, despite the fact that we were clearly both with partners.
The club had some appropriate touches, with oil barrels as tables, paintings reminiscent of the movie, and t-shirts on the staff that read, "May I help you, sir!" We joked that they should play "The End" every night for last call. It was quite a popular place, and I think the highlight of the evening was dancing with a bunch of locals and foreigners to "It's Raining Men".
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