HANOI WELCOMED NUCKEAR KIDS WITH DELICIOUS FRUITS, HEAT AND A SEA OF SMILES

15.08.2011

Vietnam has always been famous for exotic, sweet, colorful and rainbow-like fruits: longan and dragon fruit, mangosteen and papaya, lychee and carambola, spiky rambutan and melon-like guava… Nuclear talents know that fruits contain vitamins and strength for creativity, so they taste delicious things with genuine enthusiasm…. Maracuja and dragon fruit, which looks and tastes a bit like kiwi, and rambutan with threatening needles, have become the most popular among the “atoms”: “I really liked this hedgehog,” says Ilya about the rambutan. – It’s prickly and unusual. I have never seen it in Russia! And papaya is also very tasty, somewhat reminiscent of yogurt. Rambutan, by the way, appealed to all the “nuclear” actors. “So hairy! So thorned! – laughs Natasha. – Inside is so soft and tasty!”. “I’ve only seen such a thing in a computer game before,” Masha complements her friend. “I liked it too of course,” Nadia says frankly. – But I am now a fan of passion fruit! I tried it for the first time and I really liked it!” And, of course, everyone was pleased with the well-known watermelon, which is especially sweet and juicy in Vietnam. “Summer is not summer without watermelon!” – Vlad declares. And we absolutely agree with him! In general, Nuclear Kids mastered Vietnamese cuisine perfectly. Of course, on the first day, the children were afraid to accidentally find “exquisitely cooked spider beetle” in the dishes, but then they realized that Vietnamese cuisine can be extreme, but it is only at the tourist’s request. Vietnamese chefs offered our kids both European dishes and exotic vitamin rolls made of rice paper and vegetables, shrimps in batter, salads with octopus and mussels and so on. Vietnamese cuisine is good because of its abundance: you can see a whole cookbook at one buffet table. However, Nuclear Kids in Hanoi tried something else beside the dishes… Young talents were lucky to visit the excursion around the Lake of the Returned Sword (Hoan Kiem), having got to the island in the very center of which inquisitive “atoms” visited a unique Temple of the Tortoise. It is a jade pagoda that was erected in honor of the turtle that, according to legend, once saved local warriors during a battle. The kids were able to see this heroic “Tortilla” with their own eyes – the stuffed giant amphibian is placed under the glass and willingly poses for pictures! After a great photo session, the “atoms” went for souvenirs. “I don’t come to Vietnam every day, – says Zhenya Kiligin, showing the goods. – “So I brought all my relatives Vietnamese hats as presents”. While stocking up on bracelets, fans and postcards, the Nuclear Kids did not forget to build cultural ties with the locals, in which Thuyet helped them a lot. “Everyone takes pictures of us,” says Nastya Lyamtseva, “and everyone smiles! So we begged two Vietnamese guys to take a cool photo shoot!”. Energized by the energy of pagodas and ancient streets, the kids prepared for tomorrow’s rehearsal… There is one day left till the premiere of the musical…