D o you really want to know my honest impressions of the Japa Vietnam's last tour? Well, I was fully satisfied. During three weeks I could eat all kinds of delicious Vietnamese dishes, from north to south. 1. - Hanoi popular food "Pho" is a very popular dish in Hanoi. It is delicious because they use fresh raw noodles. People usually eat "pho" outside in the stalls. I ate those Vietnamese noodles often, at prices 10 times cheaper than in Tokyo. The real taste comes from little lemons squeezed in the noodles and from the strong aroma of herbs and spices. While I am writing this, my stomach starts moving. 2. - Eel dishes We visited the countryside of Nghe An and stopped by a Catholic Church. The bells of the church, in some way similar to Hiroshima Atomic Bomb Dome, were made of unexploded bombs dropped by American planes during the Vietnam War. The place had become heavily bombarded at the time. We were invited to dinner. The cook, a senior lady, certainly showed us her couisine skills. They offered us boiled eel in a pan, as well as eel broiled by fire. On the table there were cooked rice, banana, zabon and plenty of vegetables. We ate the delicious plain eel in a pan refreshed, somehow, by electric fans. They served us beer and sweet fresh fruit yellow juice with pieces of ice. For the first time in my life, I ate special boiled eggs with young duck in them. Next morning, we ate the leftovers of the night before. The boiled eel was even more delicious than the night before. (Edited from "CHAO VIETNAM", n.16)