New discovery: I love Tet! We had a Nguyen family + 4 get together yesterday at Ngoc's house in El Sobrante. It was Mark's introduction to uncompromised Vietnamese culture, as well as the return of Sambo. After gorging on noodles and duck and soup, Ngoc's oldest brother Kiet rolls in with red envelopes for all [see above].

Afterwards we partook in a seriously intense game of Texas Hold'Em. Ngoc's brothers play for keeps, by the way. Come ready to destroy or be destroyed.

That's Qui on the left. He's going to be one lucky son of a bitch this year, as he was putting us all to rest last night hand after hand after hand.

***UPDATE***. Apparently Qui lost everything to older brother Dinh after we left. Cocky bastard.