Baby Ducks.

After the last few days, we have really become fixtures in Vientiane. The weekend was spent in the company of Nam and Ciara, along with many of Nam's friends. We've had a great time hanging out with them all. Nam introduced me to a some new Lao food. Now we've seen lots of eggs for sale, and assumed they were just eggs. Not so! These are un-hatched duck eggs. They come in 3 stages, tiny baby, slightly bigger baby duck with beak, and then even bigger baby duck with feathers and everything.

We went down to a place that sold these and Nam and I tucked into a couple each. You crack the egg, and drink out this brownish liquid first, then you dive into the egg. They look all brownish, and not that appertising, but I thought they tasted great. The egg part tasted just like egg, and the baby duck, well that was really nice. I was a little surprised at how nice.

I'll give anything a go once, I think that you should when in a different country. I've done the insect thing, so the duck egg thing didn't sound that bad, although Sam and Ciara when not too impressed with either of us. After the taste sensation of baby duck eggs, we carried on with our night, ending up outside Sticky's. The bar closes down until Friday, due to the Boat Racing, so the staff traditionally have a beer together after work.

After that it was to bed, as we are back at work today. It's hard to pin down Mr Khanthone, as he seems to shoot off at tangents, too busy to concentrate on one thing. We realise that we have to take the bull by the horns and just get on with it. He said today that he wants us to write a project proposal around the poorest people in Vientiane, which we know little about. We meet with Lotus the Relief Charity on Thursday, so we have our work cut out for us. As I'm sat here quickly up-dating the blog, Sam is scribbling away at possible contacts, people we need to see and places we need to go. So I too should get on and help sort all this out.