In the bustling streets of Vietnam, where the motor scooter reigns as the king of the road, embarking on a food tour with Vespa Adventures was an obvious choice for exploring the culinary delights of Hoi An. With our skilled driver navigating through the chaotic traffic, our only mission was to indulge in the authentic street food of the city.
I seem to have arrived in a dystopian video game. All around me are soaring, jagged skyscrapers, half built, or half falling down, with scores of empty windows as black as skeletal eye sockets. The doomy towers parade down the littered seashore, each vista more apocalyptic than the last. Any moment now a hybrid tungsten killer-zombie will loom around the sunburned corner and laser me dead, meaning I have to restart from Level One. I’ve been in nicer places.