5/6 Dinner with the Students

Tonight we were treated to dinner at the most beautiful restaurant that I have yet been to in Saigon. About 10 students and 10 teachers crowded into a private room gratefully with AC around a huge square table.  They ordered plate after plate of traditional food: yummy little molded rice cakes, lots of strange seafood wrapped in big lettuce leaves with basil, the most tender beef on little bruchettas.  The final meal, seafood hot pots, came on portable little burners that immediately turned the room into a sauna.  However, the hot pots were incredible - clams, mussels, prawns, bok choy, and morning glory  in a pot with the most amazing broth. After a few tears and a lot of hugs from the students, we all headed out for another nite of "celebratory" dancing:).