On the whole, the local food was nice and very cheap, even in tourist areas. They appear to be rather fond of pork and chicken, so not unlike anywhere, outside of Muslim and Jewish regions. As a fish eating pseudo-vegetarian, there were plenty of options, so all in all, a good score on that front.
The language seems high pitched (as noted previously) and appears to be even harder to learn than Chinese. It has more tones than Chinese and you can seemingly combine them to form even more! At least it uses a Latin script now so you can read it.
With any language, you can spot funny words or phonetics in your own language. A lot of words seemed to begin in Ph or Th, lending itself nicely to English. In particular, "phat" and "phuc" were very common on signs, but unfortunately never saw them together! The addresses on a restaurant menu (above) did have a couple of interesting ones (with a little imagination). I got "Thin Tw*t" and the other more obvious one!
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