Cat ba

Alas, we reached cat ba. No one is here. A couple of tourists here and there, but the place is nearly deserted. Right when we got off the bus some guy offered us a nice room for a reasonable price, we took it, and started looking. The main street was pretty dark and the only thing standing out was hundreds of blinking lights far inside the sea. We continued walking until we made our minds to go into a small restaurant which was located on the water. In order to reach it you had to walk down some stairs on on a small and shaky bridge. The only other costumers there were 3 old European ladies, and 15 happy vietnamese men yelling together before each shot they took. We ordered some food and beer, and a bit after we started eating, one of the men invited us to a finest can of Hanoi beer, he made us drink it all in one sip, and was a bit disappointed to find out I finished before him (My Oktoberfest instincts kicked in). After that he offered us watermelon, after that shots from some unidentified taquila-like drink, after that he took us to sing karaoke with him and his friends while some other friends played a chess-like-but-different game. By the end of the night, I was singing at the top of my lungs songs in English and Vietnamese alike, and Amit was playing with the little girls of the owner of the restaurant. Later we heard some tourist say "its cat ba - you have to make your own fun" and we couldn't agree more.