Tag: vietnam

I heard about Thai Express on Le Thanh Ton street in District 1 for some time. I happened to pass it last weekend. I think I will give it a try sometime in the near…

It seems that the final work for this part of the canal in the Phu Nhuan District is nearly complete. I doubt I will live in the area when they finally finish it…

Finally the warm weather returns. Today Saigon was very bright and colorful. Below is a picture of the pagoda at the intersection of 3|2 and Le Hong Phong streets.

A couple of times a week, I like to buy a coca cola from the street vendor near AIS. She and her family are very nice and their prices quite good. I have to pay 5,000…

Last week I upgraded my motherboard and cpu, a yearly ritual for me now. Arch Linux is now the main system that I run on this desktop. Gentoo/Funtoo will be there for…

I visited Maximark last Sunday. Normally I avoid the place since it is too crowded and the checkout lines are normally packed. It can take anywhere from 10-15 minutes at…

If you happen to see some strange red lights in the air around Anh Phu along the Saigon River, no worries, they are just lantern kites. It was nice to watch. They put a…

Mel (Antidote to Burnout) mentioned if I had moved to a new house since I was no longer posting about my house on m blog. Nope, I am still here. There just have not been…

I thought this was funny. While eating lunch in Pham Ngu Lao, I saw one of Bobby Brewer's employees buying pastries from a street vendor. Hmm, I guess she does not like…

Last weekend was a very important time for Vietnamese Buddhists. Normally on the 14th, 15th and/or 16th Lunar January, Vietnamese worshippers go to the pagodas to offer…

Amazing what a year makes. ATMs are everywhere in Saigon. I can even find HSBC ATMs all over Saigon now saving me a bundle in ATM fees ($40/month). There are three…

Finally, I got Funtoo Linux, a derivative of Gentoo Linux, installed on my desktop. Funtoo is a distribution created by the founder of Gentoo, Daniel Robbins. In his…

Well, last week my P35 series Gigabyte motherboard had some problems. I thought it was battery related but turns out my motherboard may be faulty. I decied to replace it…

I spent Day 4 of Tet with my Vietnamese friend and his family just outside of Bien Hoa yesterday. Bien Hoa is a suburb of Saigon now and a really nice small city. The…

I spent a day in the Co Do Farm region. The Co Do area I was at was roughly 50 km from Can Tho. I took a Mai Linh Taxi all the way there. Cost me only about 440,000 VND…

Here are a couple nightshots of Can Tho from the Kim Lan Hotel:

Unlike Saigon, Can Tho is a good walking city. I was surprised how much I walked last Sunday. I got the blisters to prove it. I took a short walk to see parts of the…

Thanh Pho Can Tho is a really beautiful city. If you want to know what Saigon was like just 3-4 years ago, just come to Can Tho. The development is not as fast as in Ho…

On Sunday, I traveled to Can Tho, Vietnam, a city roughly 4 hours south of Saigon in Mekong Delta, for Tet. I needed to spend one night in Can Tho before I was "allowed"…

I visited another good coffee shop today, Cafe May. Surprisingly, it is near my house. If you like a decor with a fushion of Vietnamese and French interior designing…