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TransMekong Mystic Sampans Videos
Breakfast on the Mekong's floating markets - Mystic Sampans
A visit of the floating markets on the Mekong delta in Can Tho (Cần Thơ, Vietnam) on board locally built sampans, with a stop on shore and visit to local sellers' boats.
The trip takes 3 hours or so, and includes a lush breakfast buffet.
This is one more film made by Thibaud Taillant, with Trỉnh ThịThiện, this time shooting the Mystic sampans themselves rather than the Bassac boats from the Mystic sampans.
Bassac transMekong
Bassac - Cruise the Mekong delta
An overnight journey on the Mekong on board the Bassac and an allegory to the discovery of the Mekong delta, its countryside and floating markets.
This is an introduction to wooden boats named the Bassac and the services on board, especially the cuisine in the galley, all from fresh local produce, and the visits onto shore and into the rice fields. Although staged, it depicts the actual journeys and services on board.
This short film was directed by Thibaud Taillant for TransMékong in 2011, and features Trình Thị Thiện and photographer Morgan Ommer (with Digital Mekong).
The Mekong delta, a world of rivers
The Mekong delta is a world of rivers, well worth discovering from a classic boat.
Visits to the rice fields, floating markets, and the evening on the Mekong.
The teaser by Thibaud Taillant (Digital Mekong), with Trình Thị Thiện.
From local market produce to cuisine on board
This is an abstract from the subject by Thibaud Taillant about the Mekong delta rice specialties. It starts from the very local and rural production of the Mekong delta's lacy pancakes to their preparation into chả giò rế, the Mekong delta's culinary delicacy served on board the Bassac.
We would have been delighted to bring Rick Stein to that very traditional pancake manufacture, as this really is a local speciality, more so than phở.