The Best Phở in Saigon (Part 2) hint: Maybe Not Here :-/ After my treatise earlier this week about searching for the best phở in Saigon, I received several recommendations from friends and readers for other Saigon phở venues. Ối trời ơi – my work is never done! 🙂 Coincidently, one recommendation came in just as I [Read on …]
Phở Lệ 303 – 305 Võ Văn Tần District 3 Phỡ Thanh Bình 18B Nguyễn Thị Minh Khai District 3 Phơ Hữu 58 Cửu Long Bac Hai neighborhood P.15, District 10 ***** UPDATE (SEPT 2014): Click here for our latest Best Phở in Saigon listing. Inevitably, anyone who eats, cooks, or travels in Vietnam, or writes [Read on …]
Vietnam’s First Gay Pride March – Hanoi, August 5, 2012 ARTS-ENTERTAINMENT Last update 02/08/2012 3:00:00 CH (GMT+7) The first festival of homosexuals in Vietnam VietNamNet Bridge – From August 3 to 5, many events will be held for homosexuals, bisexuals and transsexuals in Hanoi. This is the first large-scaled festival for homosexuals, bisexuals and transsexuals [Read on …]
Miss Vietnam 2012 contest to eliminate award for best Q&A Last Updated: Monday, July 23, 2012 05:00:00 This year’s Miss Vietnam contest will not grant an award to the contestant with the best responses in the Q&A session. Senior journalist Le Xuan Son, head of the contest organization and acting editor-in-chief of the pageant’s host [Read on …]
Phố Ốc 271 Nguyễn Duy Trinh District 2 (08) 3743 7277 ***** During my first months living in Saigon (many years ago), my good friend Tan offered me a place to stay in his District 2 apartment. Quite a ways outside of Saigon’s tourist center, life there was far less hectic, the street traffic almost [Read on …]
… plus fun in the mud What could be better than a surprise 4-day trip to Nha Trang? Last Wednesday evening at 10 p.m., Hai announced to me that he was closing his restaurant “tomorrow”! We would be joining his family for a 4-day trip to Nha Trang. The plan was for all interested family [Read on …]
When I arrived in Vietnam for the first time twelve years ago, there was no visible sign to the outsider of gay life in Vietnam. Where is Gay Saigon? Vietnamese gay men and lesbian women completely hid themselves within their families, their required marriages, and in pursuit of their work to support a basic survival [Read on …]
Opinions divided in Vietnam on lowering of women’s marriage age Last Updated: Tuesday, July 10, 2012 Vietnamese experts are divided over the Ministry of Justice’s proposal to change the legal marriageable age for women, with critics saying the ministry has yet to study the issue carefully. A report on VnExpress Tuesday said the ministry [Read on …]