Barbecued
Barbecued. That’s how the Vietnamese typically like their dog. Usually gutted, but otherwise cooked whole (except the paws). I don’t know if they shave them or boil of the fur beforehand, or if the barbecuing process takes care of that.
I suppose you are thinking it’s a bit odd that I bring that up. Me too. Well, its only because just last week as I rode into the city centre, that’s what I was looking at, nearly the whole trip. A barbecued dog, tied to the back of a motor-scooter seat, still steaming. It didn’t become apparent to me until after a few minutes, and I noticed the mans cargo was an odd shape, but there it was, strapped down with stretchy octopus straps.
Vietnam has just recently upgraded its transport system, from pedal-power to motorization. It means that everything got a lot more easy, and the economy can prosper.
So people are going about their everyday business, but with the enhancement of motorized travel. And that’s what I was looking at, mobile dog-meat, dial-a-mutt, but with a difference!
Theres a large variety of oddities that you can see on the back of motor-scooters in Vietnam, it’s an endless source of amusement to any foreigner. You can fit 3-5 full sized freshly killed and gutted pigs on the back of a Honda wave 110, you know. It is a little funny, with the hoofs dragging along the ground as the scooter zipps through the crowded streets.
Other things include.
Entire families.
A pimp plus three ho’s.
20 cages of chooks.
Refrigerators.
Enough construction materials to keep a work-gang in business for a day or two.
One of the funniest things I heard about (but did not see, unfortunately) was a washing machine. But the spinning bin was taken out, and it was just the steel frame. It was held by the passenger on the back, and it sat over his whole body, so only his legs could be seen poking out of the bottom – making him look like a washing machine on legs.
Even I myself have dabbled in a few ludicrous stunts. When I moved house I did it in one trip, strapping 2 suitcases on the back, with the rug on top of that, on my back was my guitar in its case, but the neck was pushed forward (by the suitcases behind me) and jutted past my ear and I had to tilt my head to one side the whole trip – and lean forward a bit. On the front of me I held my backpack, with a 2nd bag hanging off the front of the handle bars, a bag of washing off one handle bar, and the kettle on the other. I off course forgot the contents of the bathroom, so in fact had to go back for a second trip.
So all you folks in the first world. DON’T go thinking that perhaps your family needs a second car. Because it’s all a capitalist trick. You can achieve any transportation goal you require using a trusty energy efficient motor scooter…. So long as the police turn a blind eye.
I suppose you are thinking it’s a bit odd that I bring that up. Me too. Well, its only because just last week as I rode into the city centre, that’s what I was looking at, nearly the whole trip. A barbecued dog, tied to the back of a motor-scooter seat, still steaming. It didn’t become apparent to me until after a few minutes, and I noticed the mans cargo was an odd shape, but there it was, strapped down with stretchy octopus straps.
Vietnam has just recently upgraded its transport system, from pedal-power to motorization. It means that everything got a lot more easy, and the economy can prosper.
So people are going about their everyday business, but with the enhancement of motorized travel. And that’s what I was looking at, mobile dog-meat, dial-a-mutt, but with a difference!
Theres a large variety of oddities that you can see on the back of motor-scooters in Vietnam, it’s an endless source of amusement to any foreigner. You can fit 3-5 full sized freshly killed and gutted pigs on the back of a Honda wave 110, you know. It is a little funny, with the hoofs dragging along the ground as the scooter zipps through the crowded streets.
Other things include.
Entire families.
A pimp plus three ho’s.
20 cages of chooks.
Refrigerators.
Enough construction materials to keep a work-gang in business for a day or two.
One of the funniest things I heard about (but did not see, unfortunately) was a washing machine. But the spinning bin was taken out, and it was just the steel frame. It was held by the passenger on the back, and it sat over his whole body, so only his legs could be seen poking out of the bottom – making him look like a washing machine on legs.
Even I myself have dabbled in a few ludicrous stunts. When I moved house I did it in one trip, strapping 2 suitcases on the back, with the rug on top of that, on my back was my guitar in its case, but the neck was pushed forward (by the suitcases behind me) and jutted past my ear and I had to tilt my head to one side the whole trip – and lean forward a bit. On the front of me I held my backpack, with a 2nd bag hanging off the front of the handle bars, a bag of washing off one handle bar, and the kettle on the other. I off course forgot the contents of the bathroom, so in fact had to go back for a second trip.
So all you folks in the first world. DON’T go thinking that perhaps your family needs a second car. Because it’s all a capitalist trick. You can achieve any transportation goal you require using a trusty energy efficient motor scooter…. So long as the police turn a blind eye.
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