Vietnamese are now celebrating the Year of the Dragon during their Tet celebrations this week. Today is Day 6 of Tet. Right before Tet, Vietnamese bring their Tet trees back into their homes. Most of these trees will stay in the home for Tet but a service will later pick them up and take care of these trees until the next Tet. … [Read more...] about Tet Tree in Saigon
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NHK and Aussie Channels replaced by the Army Channel
Last month subscribers to SCTV, one of the leading provider for cable television in Saigon, were surprised when many Australian channels and NHK, from Japan, were removed. No explanation was given. Another big surprise, a new channel run by the Army, some say the police, has been added. ANTV, the army channel, provides around the clock programming related to the Vietnamese … [Read more...] about NHK and Aussie Channels replaced by the Army Channel
Year of the Dragon in Saigon (SaigonNezumi Redesigned)
Today is Day 6 of the Tet, the Vietnamese New Year. It has been a busy week. Many Vietnamese and Expats left the city but others stayed as well. Saigon this Tet has been quite busy, more then any previous years. This Tet I am working on two WordPress sites for clients. I also took advantage of the time to redesign SaigonNezumi.com. I just launched it early this … [Read more...] about Year of the Dragon in Saigon (SaigonNezumi Redesigned)
SaigonNezumi’s Best Halal Restaurants in Saigon (2011)
Edit: I forgot to mention Halal@Saigon. I will do a review of this restaurant later. In 2011, I created one of the first halal travel sites for Vietnam under the name GoHalalPlanet. I visited over 35 restaurants that identified themselves as being halal. Most of my original reviews for these restaurants were posted here at SaigonNezumi. Since SaigonNezumi gets many … [Read more...] about SaigonNezumi’s Best Halal Restaurants in Saigon (2011)
Update from Saigon
SaigonNezumi will stay online Sorry guys, seems I have more loyal readers then I expected. I will not shut down SaigonNezumi, it will revert back to the pre-2009 blogging style. Thanks to those who personally told me to keep my blog online. I will have to make some changes though. All of the categories will be changed to Archived so I can better organize the blog. I will … [Read more...] about Update from Saigon