Mon Hue Restaurant Okay, I have a new favorite restaurant now. I am a big fan of Hue food here in Vietnam so finding any new Hue restaurant is always a good feat. My friend and I found Mon Hue Restaurant quite by accident today. We were riding down Hai Ba Trung looking for small restaurant when a downpour hit suddenly. We were passing Mon Hue just as it hit so naturally, … [Read more...] about Best Saigon Restaurants
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Washing my motorbike
Yep, finally got around to washing my motorbike today. It was actually a harder feat than expected. It was difficult to find a rua xe near my house. There used to be one in the next alleyway but they shut down. A friend in the past who used to own a rua xe told me that it never made much money so they close down a lot. Luckily on the canal near the two Pham Van Hai cross … [Read more...] about Washing my motorbike
Twitter updater fixed
Well finally, no more double posting from my blog to my Twitter account. Twitter updater was updated this week with a fix. Thanks Preya (Dreaming of Hanoi) for the heads on over a week ago. In short, everytime I updated SaigonNezumi.com, two tweets were added to my Twitter account. One with a blank Wordpress entry, and one with the original posting. It has been … [Read more...] about Twitter updater fixed
Compromising to Ubuntu
Well, reality finally took hold on me this week. Yeah, I am a ardent fan of Arch, Gentoo, and FreeBSD. I really like Linux Mint. Unfortunately for me, the Linux distribution of choice in Vietnam is Ubuntu. Roughly 90 percent of Linux users I meet in Vietnam are now Ubuntu users. The other 10 percent are people like me seem to be the old school Linux propents who feel that … [Read more...] about Compromising to Ubuntu
Storm from Hell
Sorry, no pictures, just words for this post. I meant to get some pictures of the storm but things turned into chaos in a short period of time. The storm hit other parts of Saigon first late afternoon, I started noticing some power fluctuations in my house. Then the power went out. About 30 minutes later, the storm hit. It started out as light rain and then came the … [Read more...] about Storm from Hell