Yes, we really do have a photo story about eels, and there are no hovercraft involved! (sorry, that won’t mean anything unless you used to watch the Monty Python’s Flying Circus on TV in the 1970s)
Pots and pans ready for use in a countryside restaurant in Vietnam, September 2017
Here are the eels!
Eel preparation underway – but they don’t get cooked – this is a raw eel speciality
Gỏi cá nhệch (raw eel) served up
A demonstration on how to eat it
And it really was delicious. It was served with a variety of herbs and accompanied by their own coconut rice wine. I’m not sure that mine were wrapped quite as neatly as the above demonstration, but I didn’t let it slow down my eel consumption.
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Copyright Debbie Smyth, 16 November 2017
Posted as part of Cee’s B&W Challenge
If you fancy tasting this yourself you can join an Urban Adventures trip to the villages south of Hanoi
Travel with Intent 
It’s still hard to look at these eels and think that they’d taste good. But they did. What a fun experience that was!
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It was an excellent trip and good company!
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I’ve only tried them once and that was jellied, it didn’t work for me. I do want to try them again but not sure raw would be any better than jellied for me!
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No raw eel for me, thankyouverymuch! Cooked, steamed, maybe. But no jellied eel either, unless it comes with peanut buttered eel! 😀
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The rawness wasn’t really obvious. As for peanut buttered, now you may have created a trend there!
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Do you want to come back to my place…..bouncy bouncy 😀 😀
Also love your kitchen photos too Debbie
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ha ha!
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Many years ago I was introduced to smoked eels in a restaurant in Austria…delicious. A few years since I have had any, they used to sell them at a fishmonger’s where I used to live… Oh, and I quite like jellied eels too….
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I don’t like the sound of jellied eels – I assume the texture would be slippery.
But eels and noodles was my favourite food in Japan (a good few years ago)
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😊
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On the upside, this means your hovercraft should be all free of eels then.
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Absolutely! :))
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Terrific photos for this week’s kitchen challenge. 😀
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