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| Louie on his first trip to the beach in Halong Bay |
Apparently there is a well-known American seafood dish called Shrimp Louie. As far as we can tell, it is the fancypants cousin of the poorer and more common Prawn Cocktail.
Neither of us had heard of it until we saved a shrimp from the Shrimp Rescue & Rehoming Centre in Bali. According to his testimony, he was destined for a Shrimp Louie salad in a Bubba Gump Shrimp Co. restaurant. He and several others succeeded in a planned Alcatraz-style escape, a split-second from the razor-sharp edge of a crazed seafood chef’s knife. It was weeks later when Louie was rescued while roaming the mean streets of Bali. He was dehydrated, cold, homeless and kicking an old and rusting coke can down the street. With his few belongings slung over his shoulder in a handkerchief on the end of a stick like Huckleberry Finn, he was given a second chance.
So, for the past two weeks, Louie has been travelling with us and has proved himself a very worthy travel companion. As you can imagine he couldn’t wait to get out of Bali and has loved Vietnam as much as we have (although he still has some trust issues and fears we will sell him for the sake of a spring roll). He has been to Hanoi, Halong Bay, Hue and Hoian so far with us and we even bought him a conical hat to keep his skin from burning, the rain off his face and to help him embrace Vietnamese life and culture.
Keep up with Louie and his journey on here and we will try to get him to write something of his own. It will be hard though as his experiences make it hard for him to open up. And he doesn’t always like to share as he is a little Shellfish.
Neither of us had heard of it until we saved a shrimp from the Shrimp Rescue & Rehoming Centre in Bali. According to his testimony, he was destined for a Shrimp Louie salad in a Bubba Gump Shrimp Co. restaurant. He and several others succeeded in a planned Alcatraz-style escape, a split-second from the razor-sharp edge of a crazed seafood chef’s knife. It was weeks later when Louie was rescued while roaming the mean streets of Bali. He was dehydrated, cold, homeless and kicking an old and rusting coke can down the street. With his few belongings slung over his shoulder in a handkerchief on the end of a stick like Huckleberry Finn, he was given a second chance.
So, for the past two weeks, Louie has been travelling with us and has proved himself a very worthy travel companion. As you can imagine he couldn’t wait to get out of Bali and has loved Vietnam as much as we have (although he still has some trust issues and fears we will sell him for the sake of a spring roll). He has been to Hanoi, Halong Bay, Hue and Hoian so far with us and we even bought him a conical hat to keep his skin from burning, the rain off his face and to help him embrace Vietnamese life and culture.
Keep up with Louie and his journey on here and we will try to get him to write something of his own. It will be hard though as his experiences make it hard for him to open up. And he doesn’t always like to share as he is a little Shellfish.
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| In Hanoi with his new conical hat |
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| Slowly learning how to kick back |
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| Louie admiring the view |
very funny!! will you do a brad and angie and adopt in every country?? glad you are having a good time, take care xx
ReplyDeleteHaha! Now that's something we haven't considered...until now! Thanks Danielle. Hope all is well with you. xx
ReplyDeleteHow compassionate you are! Adopting a shrimp! Wilf is doing his nut. If you are that soppy, why not a Chicken? Wait until he sees Louie, he says. He was muttering "Chicken discrimination" when I last spoke to him!
ReplyDeleteWell Wilf was reluctantly adopted and he is enough! haha. Chicken discrimination indeed! What next? He doesn't know he's born. Louie has been through so much...
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