---
title: "Ocean Headlights 👁"
url: "https://loyalty.sarl/en/posts/2026-01-22-ocean-headlights/"
date: 2026-01-22
tags: ["Status","Miles","Points"]
source: "https://t.me/statkarusel/226"
language: en
---

# Ocean Headlights 👁

The piece about my namesake was an introductory epitaph, a warm-up before the brunch gastronomy.

From day one, things didn't click between me and the girls on reception.

I put it to them simply:

— Where's the best pho bo in this village?

And they told me, without ceremony:

— Hello, mister, we have our own speciality here: Mắt cá ngừ đại dương.

If you want pho bo, stick your thumb out and hitchhike north.

My ignorance is explicable.

A status chaser goes wherever the miles are thicker and the points are fatter.

So after country number eighty on the UN list, I don't travel by tourist logic.

Had I travelled like a tourist, I'd have known in advance that [Tuy Hoa](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuy_H%C3%B2a) is Vietnam's main supplier of tuna.

People come here to eat stewed tuna eyes with medicinal herbs (known locally as "ocean headlights").

These eyes — the Can't Take My Eyes Off You of Vietnamese cuisine — rank among the country's ten best-known dishes.

In the end I untangled it, more or less.

We made up.

These days they've stopped deliberately over-salting my breakfast eggs 🏃‍♂️

## Photos

![Ocean Headlights 👁](https://loyalty.sarl/img/2026-01-22-%D0%BE%D0%BA%D0%B5%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%87%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%8F-%D1%84%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B0/photo_157@22-01-2026_07-28-06_hu_9ee5bb1d9b07cf54.webp)

![Ocean Headlights 👁](https://loyalty.sarl/img/2026-01-22-%D0%BE%D0%BA%D0%B5%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%87%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%8F-%D1%84%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B0/photo_158@22-01-2026_07-28-06_hu_b47d2f4b306c8541.webp)