While Hai and I returned to Vietnam just a few days ago at the end of the Year of the Dog, the new year has just arrived and it’s now The Year of the Pig! We celebrated the Year of the Pig at last night’s dinner appropriately, with braised pork shoulder (thịt kho trứng); and then [Read on …]
Gà Quê 15 Ngô Tát Tố Bình Thạnh District Quán Phong Lan54 Cửu LongDistrict 100988 818 971 ********************* There we were, on an almost deserted street of Saigon at 4:30 am just outside the Saigon Zoo (already closed for the Tet holiday) doing our extremely early jog/power-walk (inspired by jetlag), when the celestial message appeared! [Read on …]
Fly Cupcake Garden 25B Tú Xương District 3 (08) 3932 2299 133 Hai Bà Trưng District 1 (08) 3822 9038 ********************************** So we all know very well that Vietnamese cuisine is probably the best/most delicious on the planet. Particularly those of us who have spent some quality time enjoying our meals sitting on small plastic stools in [Read on …]
Quán Phong Lan 54 Cửu Long District 10 0988 818 971 ********************* After having lived in Saigon’s Bắc Hải district for many years – and loved it – I now have yet another wonderful reason to re-claim it as my favorite neighborhood in Ho Chi Minh City. Certainly, Bắc Hải’s major attraction is its lovely [Read on …]
BonBon Residence 2 2C15 Trường Sa P.19 Bìng Thạnh District +84 98 944 40 80 ******************************* Who knew giraffes could gallop? I mean, I’ve seen these impressive creatures strolling across beautiful grasslands on a South Africa safari … and even saw them standing on their tippy-toes, stretching to reach those delectable leaves atop tall trees. [Read on …]
OMG! We’ve just discovered the Comptche of Vietnam! (For those who don’t know, Comptche is a tiny bucolic town of 600 people in 25 square miles nestled in the redwood covered hills of Mendocino County, in Northern California – where Hai and I have our USA “countryside home.”) And now, here we were in the [Read on …]
So, we’ve all pondered those rhetorical questions, “What would you want to do if the doctor told you that you only had a few days left on the planet and you could do anything you wanted? How would you want to spend your last 72 hours?” Well, for me that’s an easy one. Easy because [Read on …]
CƠM TẤM 43 43 Nguyễn Văn Lạc Bình Thạnh District 0120 855 0155 *********************** A simple, classic Saigon street eatery – that’s what Hai and I were looking for this morning as we left our apartment beside “our” canal (the Thi Nghe Canal in Bình Thạnh District). And happily, we quickly found it … Cơm Tấm 43 [Read on …]