Day 31 - 25.08.15 - "I definitely did not pay to be manhandled"

The alarm went off at 04:45 this morning which was disgusting. We headed to the beach at around 5am, knowing that sunrise was 5.30am. We arrived and it seemed like the whole population of Nha trang was also on the beach doing all sorts of exercise - swimming, beach aerobics and badminton. Quite the opposite from the peaceful, empty beach I had imagined. However, it did not take away from the sunrise which was truly beautiful. 

After the sunrise, we headed for some breakfast. The choice of breakfast in Nha Trang is Vietnamese soup or Pizza. We all ordered a Lipton tea with milk (remember this) and Sophie and I ordered a pizza whilst Kelsey ordered bread and jam. Our tea came in little cute cups with hats. 

We were all very excited for our tea. However they had brought us non-Lipton tea with orange instead of milk. We thought that perhaps they put orange in all tea as it had been in our previous cups too. We asked for milk (in Asia milk = condensed milk) and added it to our tea. Mine was fine but Kelsey and especially Sophie's curdled. 

We asked the waitress to replace it, which she said yes to. Half an hour the tea was still not replaced. We asked again, and a senior waitor came over. The two had a discussion and then left without saying anything. 15 mins later, still no tea, so we asked for the bill, planning on getting a tea at a beach bar instead. The bill came and they had charged us for the curdled tea. Naturally,  we were not having any of this. Sophie scribbled off the the curdled tea, left the amended amour and left the restaurant. As we were crossing the road we heard a screech and the waitress was chasing us. Kelsey had successfully made it across the road but the waitress dived at Sophie and grabbed her bag and refused to let go. Next she grabbed onto Sophie's arm and wrist and was trying to drag her back into the restaurant. When Sophie became too difficult to budge, she called the security guard over and at this point Sophie and I went back into the restaurant. We asked to speak to the manager, but the waitress replied no. However, we insisted and she told us to sit down. She came back saying no discount but Sophie told her that we were definitely not paying and that we'd sit here all day if we had to. I picked up the cup of curdled tea and asked the waitress if she'd like to drink it. She said no, so I said "great, because nor do we so we're not paying or it". She went away and came back again saying ok, you can go. No apology or anything but that's fine because eventually we didn't have to pay for the curdled tea. We are now having a celebratory majito on the beach. And yes, it is 9 am but it's 5 O'clock somewhere right? 

Attempted to get a take away coffee to wake me up. Take away cups are not a thing in Asia. 

Also, I thought you'd like to see a picture of the rather fetching, complementary slippers. 

They are comfortable though.