If you are in Vietnam and plan to stop by Hoi An. , think very well. When you are here, don't forget to book a table and / or a room first Mango Rooms. In the "city of lanterns", which in the evening comes alive with colored lights, paper and silk, Mango Rooms represents a further touch of color, with its multi-colored walls, its fabrics, its ceramics, its lotus flowers. Everything here is chromatic agreement. If you order the fantastic spring rolls (“our” spring rolls, but here with raw vegetables), get ready to receive a palette worthy of the most authoritative of painters: from the dish, to the ingredients, everything is feast for the eyes (as well as for the palate). Okay, Mango Rooms may not be the cheapest restaurant in Hoi An (after all, it is renowned for being quite trendy, as Mick Jagger's favorite place around here), but let's not forget that everything is relative: Vietnam itself is low-cost.
Leaving Mango Rooms, walk along the riverside to the ancient Japanese bridge. Your eyes won't know where to stop. The different cultures that here met, collided, overlapped, confused and embraced left their mark. The Portuguese heritage blends with the French, Dutch, Chinese and Japanese ones. And when the light of day turns to dusk, in the crystalline air that still smells of the last shower of rain, colorful lanterns, large, small, medium, in the air, on the water, among the branches of trees, on the windowsills, to warm up in the evening. And if you suddenly turn around and think you see a giant illuminated cat floating on the water, don't be scared: you don't have visions, it's all true. You are neither in a Japanese cartoon nor have you drunk too much. It is the reality. You are in Hoi An. Tourist, yes. But, once in a while, it can be said: and who cares!
