Gear Wheel Clamp Low Ceiling Ram

For around $5.12US I had lunch, went to the zoo, walked around the Southeast Asia History Museum (I named it thusly because I couldn't read the real name - wait, the brochure tells me I'm mostly correct), and then ran home with some snacks because of frightening storm clouds and a forecast for 7cm of rain.

These were the only pictures I got at the museum before I was told photography wasn't allowed. One dude rebelled and took flash photos of everything he saw, another caressed 17th-century mounted elephant tusks, and I watched a woman gently swing a 15-century gong. This casual attitude extended to the zoo where on separate occasions I've seen an old woman throw a corn cob at the orangutans and a man incite a white tiger to snarl and roar in agitation.

This room had objects ranging in date from the 7th to 17th century, but I believe they were all from groups of Khmer decent.

Book made by Buddhist monks

Khmer cake molds

woven bamboo satchel

wooden pillow

A haunting 6-7th century wooden Champa statue of Buddha

Lunch was at a Hue-style restaurant. After two chances this place is meh or maybe I'm not ordering the right things. I had fresh lemonade and soup ramen with pork belly, shrimp, blood cubes, a couple small yellow grape tomatoes, and small round mushrooms that I thought were eyeballs at first and I balked. I also had something new: bánh ít trần kẹp bánh ram, which is in the category of "thing stuffed inside another version of itself." A deep fried glutinous rice dumpling containing ground dried shrimps and pork (like ham siu gok) stuffed inside a soft and sticky steamed mochi, with more ground shrimp and cracklings on top. Actually, the soft mochi sat on top, but the textures were pretty great together. Served with pickled daikon and carrots, one of those weird formed meat batons that appears sporadically, and fish sauce. I could tell this wasn't the best version, which means I've got to find it somewhere else, because whoa.

Post title is engrish from Google Translate.