BUBBLE/BOBA TEA! (also known as Tra Sua Tran Chau here.) Because I have this super-power of making foods that I like appear right in front of me, a new Bubble Tea joint just happened to open two blocks away from me. I can get bubble tea everyday for 50 cents in this overly-cutesy, Asian-teen looking place, with carpets, pillows, lime green walls, and cartoon cat paintings. Vietnamese teen music also comes with the package, so Akon and Avril Lavigne often make guest appearances. It’s oh so tastey… and that’s the last of my TOP THREE SNACKS IN HUE.
My friends and I taking some of my students out to bubble tea.
I can’t believe I almost forgot to mention this. The place is called “YUPPIE TEA.” Yup. It’s exactly like what you think. When we took my students there, we asked them “What do you guys think Yuppie means?” They said, “Yuppies… are rich, young kids who… are umm… ambitious.”
We explained that in the U.S., there’s kind of a negative/make-fun-of-constantly connotation to the word, but other than that, I guess what they said makes sense in a country that’s always striving to be more developed and Western.
Đôi nét về Blogger Huỳnh Hy
Vừa tốt nghiệp Ithaca College vào tháng 5 2008, Hy đã quyết định tham gia một chương trình tình nguyện nước ngoài phi lợi nhuận,phi chính phủ mang tên gọi Volunteers in Asia (VIA). VIA đưa Hy đến Huế với vai trò 1 giáo viên dạy tiếng anh tình nguyện cho Làng trẻ em Xuân Phú. Các bạn có thể đọc các bài viết của Hy tại địa chỉ blog http://huynhwinsituation.wordpress.com/ (Tất nhiên là tiếng anh nhé ;) để biết thêm về VIA cũng như các hoạt động tình nguyện thú vị của Hy