Tag: vietnam

This is another one of my favorite halal Malaysian restaurants in the city. D'Nyonya Penang Restaurant offers authentic Penang Malaysian cuisine that I am sure most of…

Yesterday Steve from Baba's Kitchen invited to a party with his students and friends hosted at, yes, Baba's Kitchen. I was a bit late since as I was leaving, it started…

Hoshi's favorite daytime activity is??? A Sleeping Hoshi

An early October morning picture of the Rex Hotel. Rex Hotel - Saigon, Vietnam

It has been awhile since I helped start an IT user group in Vietnam. I helped initiate the first Barcamp Saigon and formed both the Saigon Linux User Group (which became…

For the last month, I have started to follow a more strict halal diet. I am up to about 90% these days, I had a cheeseburger today, but hope to hit 100% by the end of…

Stopped by one of the mosques to pick up a friend tonight. The Jamiul Islamiyah Mosque, also known as the Nancy Mosque, is one of the main mosques in Saigon. There is a…

Thanks to my Malaysian friend, I had some good help in getting a major update for the Vietnam site of GoHalalPlanet. More below: Cross-posted from…

I visited my friend's company, Viivue, yesterday. Viivue is a premium theme design boutique located here in Saigon, Vietnam. They design custom premium themes for…

SaigonNezumi.com is back online again. I took it down this morning. My server at Linode was either having a DDOS attack or some malicious script, most likely from the…

I took two quick shots of Saigon Pearl when I went by there last week. Not bad for my HTC Desire HD camera, eh?

For those of you that miss the orange julius, the drink that is, head to Saigon Tacos tomorrow at Stellas. Robert will be serving his 100% authentic Mexican food…

Another Hoshi post. He found my laundry basket and realized it was a nice place to sleep. He loves it there. When he is not sleeping, he is playing with his stuffed…

GoHalalPlanet's Vietnam site was nominated for Asia Top 50 Apps. The nomination started later then most of the other nominees but you can still vote until October 10…

GoHalalPlanet - Vietnam website Most of you probably know that I have been working on a halal travel site for Vietnam. The work gathering all the information took longer…

In the past, Smokey used to do this and now Hoshi. While I pray, Hoshi likes to run unto my prayer rug and play around. Talking about cute... :-)

Thanks to my Kazakh friends, Aigerim and Aika, I was able to eat my favorite Kazakh dish called beshbarmak here in Saigon. The last time I had this dish was in Tennessee…

So the litte guy finally recovered. He got his first shots over a week ago. The Vet gave him a good bill of health. Hoshi will get more shots in a 3 weeks then finally…

Look at my lovely hair this morning. I am kind of drugged up with muscle relaxers for my neck. After my move to a room with a window a couple weeks ago, I hurt my neck…

For once I started to take a look at the user manual for my Canon EOS Rebel T3i camera. Normally that is one of the first things that I do when I buy an electronic but I…