Highlights from "Miss Saigon"

Reminds me of the musical and my favourite song from the soundtrak "Sun and Moon" ; ) How Romantic!!!

Saigon (or Ho Chi Minh city) is a nice and friendly country. We managed to befriend 2 gals from the Ben Tanh Market and exchanged email addresses. Hopefully they will email Lisa & I and maybe we can get some goods from them and sell at the Carts!! ho ho ho.

This is a fulfilling trip. At least I got to know Saigon better. Experienced 'life in the Cu Chi Tunnel System". I think I not only has a bit of night blindness but a bit caustrophobic! Having to duck-walk in the tunnel made me suffer from muscle aches now! Oh dear... Lisa and I went to the pharmacy to get some Heat Rubs.

We reached Ho Chi Minh city around 11am, but clearing the customs is like taking forever! They are bloody inefficient man! When we reached Hotel Equitorial, its already 12:15pm, and we quickly book the 1pm free city shuttle service provided by the hotel to go to Ben Tanh Market. There are lots of things there. Its like a pasar malam in Singapore as most stalls are selling similar items. We stopped by this souvenir shop first and we were bargaining for a very long time to buy a Vietnamese doll and some smaller versions of the dolls. On the last day, we went back and bought some fridge magnets from her again, and this is the stall which exchanged email addresses with us! She even tried to help us to buy something from another stall but I think the stall owner refused to budge and gave her the same price.

The beef pho in the market is simply delicious! We also packed some dried noodles with some nice sauces and veggies, bean curd.... that only costs 5000 dong! and a pack of something like seng kway that costs only 3000 dong! for dinner!!! Market food is not too bad after all! ; )~~ Sedap! I simply missed the pho.... We ate from the same stall on the last day and surprisingly, the gal still remembered us!!

It was raining pretty heavily on the first day. We took a cab back to the hotel and enjoyed our dinner. Around 6plus, we went to Serene and Rebecca's room and decided that we should go out again. Hence, we took a cab together Shufen, Meifen, Christina and her husband Jim, Rebecca and Serene to City Plaza Shopping Plaza at District One. Things there are so expensive and they don't accept US Dollars! Shit! While queueing up to pay our things, the man behind us came up and had two packets of WORMS! GULP! Looks pretty scary! and they actually ate such stuff!

I bought lots of Bags, their traditional costumes - au dai for Eunice, Emlyn, Joanne, Daryl and Xavier. Also got some clogs, dried jackfruit chips, my burberry's wallet (For only US$5!), my communist T-shirt and 2 Vietnamese style blouses and also some sequined purses.

The Cu Chi tunnel system walk is really tedious! but its really amazing! They are really SMART to come up with traps with simple tools to Kill the US Armies! ; )

After that we went to Liberty Restaurant in District One for dinner. Food is OK but not very Vietnamese leh!

We also ventured to another market called An Dong Market which is about 10 mins walk behind our hotel. They actually sell DRIED Frogs and fish that are still alive and kicking in the market! What an eye-opener! ;)

Well, I hope to go back again and this time go and visit places of interest. Ciao! I have a movie to catch!