The local beers!

Angkor beer

As well as trying as much Vietnamese food as our stomachs can handle, I feel it's important to try the local beers too.

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Interestingly a lot of local beers here are named after the city in which they are made, which means you can chart our journey through Vietnam by the drinks we're having. Above, a beer from Hanoi.

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Lao Cai, a town near Sapa on the Chinese boarder. A bit weak this one.

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The Halong Bay cocktail. Very pepperminty...

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Huda beer from Hue in central Vietnam.

Saigon beer

Saigon beer from Ho Chi Minh City.

Angkor beer

And here's the national beer of Cambodia.

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And then there's the coffee! In Vietnam coffee is traditionally filtered at your table and best served over ice with condensed milk. I think I am developing a very sweet tooth...

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I drew the line at this Mekong Delta specialty. Not for me. Not if you paid me a hundred million dong. I love you Vietnam, but no....

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...Enfys though seems quite keen to try scorpion rice wine!