Anyhow, Green Tangerine was cozy quiet alcove away from the consistently honking traffic. Highly recommended by TripAdvisor.com and a friend, we had high hopes for this pretty french restaurant.
Set lunch was US$8.90, including 1 main course and 1 dessert. Pea had the beef cheeks, which came out warm and tasting like homely stew. My duck reached me less-than-tepid :( so i had asked for it to be heated up. We then shared a creme brulee & a mango cake dessert. Pea like the creme brulee, but I wasn't a fan of the chilled yougart. The mango rolled in cake was soaked, so it was soggy... (but I think it was meant to be soggy).
The service was good, and the food was okay, but the portions were dismal. What we had wasn't even to fill 2 small girly-tummies :P
After lunch, we decided to walk towards the Revolution Museum and the Vietnam History Museum. Sad to neither was inviting enough to wander into :P But we did walk through a 'nineteen 11' restaurant, with a large al fresco area, just behind an opera house. Prices are steep, about 45,000 for a latte, but it looked like a good place to while away a slow afternoon :) there was a set lunch menu for about US$9.50 too, will try it out if we're in that area again.
On the way back to the hotel, we stopped for ice-cream, & are now napping / blogging before venturing out for a street food dinner, and buying back sandwiches for tonight's train trip to Sapa :)
---- Update ----
Found that yummy french bread sandwich store with the grouchy lady, which was a short walk from the cathedral near Melia Hotel. This time, after the grouchy lady had served a local, she caught sight of Pea & I, turned around and started mucking around with the meat slicer at the back of the machine. :( lame...
So another lady, who was way nicer, got up from a nearby table and got up our sandwiches for the Sapa train later tonight :)
Dinner was at Pepperoni's, a pizza & pasta place just a few doors (on the same side of the street) as the sandwich shop. We shall pho-on on Thursday after we get back :P
---- Update ----
Found that yummy french bread sandwich store with the grouchy lady, which was a short walk from the cathedral near Melia Hotel. This time, after the grouchy lady had served a local, she caught sight of Pea & I, turned around and started mucking around with the meat slicer at the back of the machine. :( lame...
So another lady, who was way nicer, got up from a nearby table and got up our sandwiches for the Sapa train later tonight :)
Dinner was at Pepperoni's, a pizza & pasta place just a few doors (on the same side of the street) as the sandwich shop. We shall pho-on on Thursday after we get back :P
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