Those are some good looking table grapes. I imagine that grapes were introduced to Vietnam by the French. I met my wife while picking (wine) grapes in the South of France...which reminds me: when I was in Vietnam in 2003/2004 I remember seeing a big iron communication tower built to look like the Eiffel Tower in a mountain village up north. It was a bit of a cheesy tourist attraction, a hat-tip to the French, and part of a campaign to make the town a honeymoon destination for the Vietnamese.
Here in Portugal you can get a decent bottle of wine (red, white or green) for $3.44; back in the mid 80s a bottle of decent Portuguese port cost only a buck, or you could get six 20-cl. draft beers in a café (and change) for that same one US dollar. Those days are long gone, now it costs one US dollar for just one 20-cl. draft beer in a bar or café. What I usually do is to buy a litre of cold beer from a mom & pop shop for $2 and drink it down by the Mondego River, in a place where I have a nice view of Coimbra (a 2,000-year-old ancient city on a hill) and a nice view of the cute Portuguese girls jumping from the bridge into the river in their bikinis.
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Hi Linh,
Those are some good looking table grapes. I imagine that grapes were introduced to Vietnam by the French. I met my wife while picking (wine) grapes in the South of France...which reminds me: when I was in Vietnam in 2003/2004 I remember seeing a big iron communication tower built to look like the Eiffel Tower in a mountain village up north. It was a bit of a cheesy tourist attraction, a hat-tip to the French, and part of a campaign to make the town a honeymoon destination for the Vietnamese.
Hi Martin,
I've been drinking $3.44 bottle of Vietnamese red wine, made with local grapes. I'm going to pour me a glass right now.
Images of Eiffel Tower in Vietnam are most often seen at tailor shops that make suits.
Linh
Cheers!
Here in Portugal you can get a decent bottle of wine (red, white or green) for $3.44; back in the mid 80s a bottle of decent Portuguese port cost only a buck, or you could get six 20-cl. draft beers in a café (and change) for that same one US dollar. Those days are long gone, now it costs one US dollar for just one 20-cl. draft beer in a bar or café. What I usually do is to buy a litre of cold beer from a mom & pop shop for $2 and drink it down by the Mondego River, in a place where I have a nice view of Coimbra (a 2,000-year-old ancient city on a hill) and a nice view of the cute Portuguese girls jumping from the bridge into the river in their bikinis.
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