Special foods have been prepared and we've watched one family, that live across the street, cooking up a storm! They've been preparing hundreds of bánh tét, a Vietnamese savoury (but sometimes sweetened cake) made primarily from glutinous rice, which is rolled in a banana leaf into a thick, log or square. We learned from Quyen that the round Day cake symbolizes the sky and the square Chung cake symbolizes the Earth. We finally conjured up enough nerve to go and ask to buy one from her.

Our neighbours kitchen counter.. The Floor