On one hand it’s amazing to be able to get up in the morning and simply walk to a dining room and have a fully adequate omelette served to you and free flowing coffee.
On the other, having breakfast in your hotel means you simply miss out on a time on the streets that is alive like no other time of the day is.
Breakfast in Vietnam is a big deal - it's the most important meal of the day here and a time when everyone eats together before they start their days.
In Da Nang this morning we decided to get up early to see the sunrise – Jeff wanted to take some photos and I wanted to run across the dragon bridge.
This meant that by 6am we were not only extremely accomplished and proud of ourselves, we were also extremely hungry.
The hotel we are staying at in Da Nang, The Ruby, doesn't offer breakfast so we decided to walk the streets to see what we could find.
By 6am in Da Nang the streets are full – I had to keep looking at my watch to remind myself that it was indeed only 6am.
Street stalls are set up from seemingly nothing to be a full service restaurant ready for patrons to devour what ever their speciality is.
First stop was a coffee shop to get our caffeine hit. The local Vietnamese coffee here is one of the best I’ve tasted – its extremely strong but has a smooth hazelnut flavour unlike any thing I have ever tasted before.
As we sat down to enjoy, we struck up a conversation with 2 gentlemen sitting next to us.
He and Jeff had a great conversation about photography and it struck us how inspiring it was that this guy was so passionate about a photography program.
After coffee we continued down the street to see what looked good.
A woman selling Banh My caught our eye – it is hard to go past these stalls without wanting one.
Jeff and I looked at each other and new breakfast had been found.
We both ordered ours with eggs and then left it to the lady to add what ever delicacies she saw fit.
After lovingly placing in two scrambled eggs she adorned the roll with chilli jam, shallots, fresh herbs, slices of fatty pork and chicken loaf, cucumber and a sprinkle of salt and pepper.
We sat down beside her to eat her concoction and she stood over us excited to see what we thought.
And we thought it was amazing.