Eating, drinking and typing in Soc Trang

Apologies for the multiple publishing of the same post, I'm having all kinds of issues with the internet connection! To put it nicely, the internet connection here is a bit haphazard.
Some not-very-exciting news... this morning I had my first noodle soup for breakfast! We went to a vegetarian cafe for breakfast, one that Dan has been to a couple of times, and ordered the noodle soup because it is the only thing on the menu that Dan recognises. One day we will be adventurous and order something we don't recognise! Anyway, noodle soup for breakfast was quite an experience, I don't think I'll be hungry for the rest of the day now. Even more interesting though were the packets of vegan food for sale in the cafe; vegan chicken, vegan fish balls, vegan shrimp and vegan snails. I think they are all made of tofu but they looked a bit odd, especially the vegan snails!
To continue with the food theme, last night we went to Cafe 36 for dinner. It was a welcome dinner for me and some of the people from Kiem Lam (Forest Protection Sub-Department - where Dan works) were there. The custom in Vietnam is, if you invite someone to dinner or drinks, you pay for everything. So we ordered stir-fried water spinach, fish balls in lettuce, mango salad and some kind of fish that you wrapped up with noodles and salad to make a fresh spring roll. Plus there was a lot of beer drunk! The waitresses at Cafe 36 will come to your table and pour themselves a glass of your beer; however much they scull (usually 50% or 100%), you then have to scull the same amount. The trick is to have a lot of ice in your glass so you don't have to drink too much beer! (Most places here serve warm bottled beer in a glass with a big piece of ice in it.) The food was lovely and the drinking games, well, I left that to the Kiem Lam men. All up it cost just over 500,000 dong - just over $35! I am still amazed by how cheap food is here, and Cafe 36 is one of the more expensive places in town!
I am really going to test my blogging skills and the internet connection here now and try and post a photo of the street in Soc Trang that I live on. Apologies again if I mess it up!