We met the nowadays world famous organiser of visits to the largest cave on earth, Son Doon, but due to the season, flooding, it presently was closed for visits. We saw the entrance to another cave and enjoyed the wonderful Vietnamese black coffee. On our way back "home" we managed to eat twice, had at least three ricevin shoots tasted and hired a boat to cross a river.
We bought some rice vine with us to have another zip when this days final meal should be eaten. 'Cause we had ordered snake for dinner.
To eat snake is more of a ceremony than having dinner. The poor snake was emptied on blood when still alive. The last part of its tail was chopped off at the end to squize out the last part. And this tail was "alive", twirling at least 2 minutes after cut-off.
The blood was gathered in one of our rice vine bottles together with the snake's heart, and while the rest of the snake was prepared, we enjoyed this flavoured ricevine supposed to give our group of seven people additional strength.
It is clear that you have to eat a lot of snakes in order to fill an empty stomach. This grass snake was rather slim and it contained more bones than I have ever encountered before, all sorts of fish species accounted. It was an experience, we all felt stronger, but at the end we ordered a more ordinary meal as well.
//Stefan
I am truly and deeply impressed by your food intake !!!
SvaraRadera