Train Street--Check!
Monday: We've been waiting and waiting for a good day to go see Train Street in Hanoi. We needed a day not too hot, not too rainy, not too short, not too busy... We finally got the right day. And it started to rain on us. So we went anyway! We first decided it was time to eat Indian food from one of the many Indian restaurants in Hanoi. We chose Maazi in Old Quarter. The biggest problem we faced was not enough experience between the 6 of us to know what was good to order! Time for an Adventure! As we waited for the Sisters to join us, we wandered the street and found a little pagoda, of course. It was crowded like your kitchen might be crowded, and they were preparing food to put as offerings for the ancestors. I've never seen fresh food offered this way before; it was very interesting. The scrollwork is so ornate, and usually filled with dragons, like these. Sometimes, it has cranes, or turtles, etc. It was a very cluttered pagoda, not like most that we see that are spaciou...