The An Binh Candy Factory

Part of our boat tour around An Binh Island was a stop at a small candy factory, where we learned how to prepare a few of Vietnam’s favorite traditional sweets.

We hadn’t exactly signed up for any of the “extra stops” our boat had been making during the tour. The first had been at a honey farm, where we saw a box of bees for two minutes, then spent the next fifteen minutes refusing to buy honey products. So when our boat pulled into another “surprise traditional experience”, Jürgen and I made...