Dinner and a FIGHT ???

On Thursday night we were invited to another New Year's celebration dinner with the owner of our apt. He moved to the fifth floor of our building. We arrived to find about 10 other people all sitting on the floor, of course, and eating. We were not late but I guess they had been doing this most of the day as is the custom. I am so amazed that these people are so small, they love to eat.
We had the usual Vietnamese fair of chicken soup with rice, chicken salad, shrimp, oysters, spring rolls and fruit for dessert. Then our host proceeded to bring out a bottle of 30 year old wine that he had saved from the war. He had been sent to the US for training during the war and they have been so helpful to us bringing us meals and fruit so he wanted to share this wine with us. I am not much of a drinker but this was a very mild wine and we enjoyed our time with them.

NOW for the FIGHT... On Friday night we thought we would try to find the KFC which is about 15 minutes from our apt. We headed out at 5 PM on foot and found it and had an ok dinner, Mark loves their soft serve ice cream. After dinner we proceeded to walk back to our apt, most people were still out of town so the streets were pretty quiet. We saw a group of people ahead of us and just thought they were waiting to get into the Karoke Bar. It was not until we were in the middle of the group that we discovered it was a fight. By this time there was only guy left and as I walked past him I saw that he had blood all over his shirt and that his face was a mess THEN I noticed the machete type knife in his hand. I tried to push Mark along to move faster not knowing if he realized what was going on but the crowd was just wanting to look and not move. We finally made it past the group and as I looked back I saw his motor bike laying in the street. Mark thought it might be a case of road rage, whatever, I would hate to see what the other guy looked like since this one had the knife. I think taxi's are looking better and better !!