Things to Eat (or not) in Vietnam - Part One

As the time passes, and my life fills up with other activities, the trip to Vietnam recedes in my consciousness.  I am trying to keep the memory fresh by going through my pictures.
The food in Vietnam seemed abundant in the markets, in sidewalk restaurants selling whole meals, and in restaurants.  Because of our Jewish dietary restrictions (about which we were much more flexible than truly orthodox Jews), we couldn't eat a lot of the food that we saw.  Here's a small sampling.
The first three pictures were taken on our visit to the Perfume Pagoda near Hanoi, not so much a tourist destination as a pilgrimage site for masses of Vietnamese.
They may be Buddhist, but they are not vegetarians.

 The next two pictures were taken in one of the many markets we visited.  We loved the sights, smells, and activity of the markets, but we also remembered that for the people selling, mainly women, the markets are a tiring and chancy way of making a bit of money.
The last picture was taken at a kind of family candy factory on an island in the Mekong Delat.  We aren't sure what the people were planning to do with the snakes in the huge jar.  Possibly they were planning to put them in bottles of the local rice brandy, their way of adding potency to the brew - though most of the little bottles with snakes and scorpions in them, along with the liquor, were clearly meant to be taken home by tourists as souvenirs.