Sorry for the long delay in jotting down some thoughts but it has been too busy. We try to have a nice vacation to Vietnam but did not go for several reasons. One we didn’t know that you have to have an email letter from the VN consulate that approves your travel to their country. You take that with you to the airport & then you fly into VN where they process your tourist visa. Then we figured by that time we got that email letter the next typhoon would be right behind us dumping a ton of rain. So it would “rain on our parade.” We ate the cost & hung out here. We spent some great time w/ friends but Eileen caught a cold which turned into a sinus infection. A week later w/ the same infection Eileen had enough. She asked one of our Chinese friends to make an appointment with a Chinese herbalist. About 30 USD later Eileen had the “ingredients.” She came home w/ large plastic bag of herbs & some liquid in small capsules. Also, you have to purchase a cheap ceramic pot to cook everything in. You first soak the herbs (looks like potpourri) for 20 minutes in room temp water & then boil it for about 30 minutes. The apt. smells like a perfumed farm. Drink a "bowl" twice a day before lunch & dinner. Both the boiled potpourri & capsules taste is like bitter cough syrup. Yum! We will see in about 4 days the results. To cheer ourselves up we went out to one of our favorite Chinese restaurants. There are a row of different Chinese restaurants from the various provinces in China. Next to the one we visited is a Henan restaurant & the video clip is a typical over where the guy is baking some kind of large muffin. Enjoy!
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