Meal on wheels

One of the great joys about living in Ho Chi Minh City is the facility of bringing home any kinds of foods and dishes. This city is like one mega drive-through structure, where you can pick up all kinds of meals and snacks from the comfort of your motorbike, while you are on your way to your destination. From fruit shakes, to sandwiches, to rice meals, to soups, to fried foods, the streets are your menu, and your motorbike is your browser.

Here is a lunch course I picked up on the way home through my alleyway one day.

First stop on the far end of the picture: my banh mi stall.... 12,000 VND ( 60 cents)

The "crab soup" lady outside my alleyway is popular amongst the teenagers, who come after school and sit on stools beside her stall and slurp on her glutinous soup or munch on chicken feet which she also sells... She works everyday from 3pm-8pm... And see those buckets in front of her stand? They are full of her soup, and she sells 3 whole buckets everyday!

One cup of crab soup costs 8,000 VND (about 40 cents)

Let's grab a bag of fresh sliced fruits... for about 50 cents...

... And fresh sugarcane juice for 5,000 apiece ( 25 cents)

... And clip the bags onto our motorbike in true Vietnamese fashion...

And Opa!!! A tasty filling lunch meal for about $1.50 per person!

My sister in true Vietnamese photo-posing style...