Food on Display

 These roots and the green fruit were meant to be left as offerings at the Perfume Pagoda.

 This meat was on display at the restaurant where we ate at the Perfume Pagoda, a huge establishment with long tables in a kind of tent.

 These are a very common Vietnamese street food called ban chung.  You can find a recipe for them here: http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/Vietnamese-Rice-Cakes-in-Banana-Leaves-233845

 We didn't weren't always attracted by the way the food was displayed in the market.

Our guide called these "rice paper."  You can buy them wrapped in cellophane.

 This is how a very delicious fish arrived at our table in a very simple restaurant on a farm in the Mekong Delta.

Turning food into sculpture is a favorite Vietnamese trick.