Ho Chi Minh - 1st Day

As we are taking the afternoon flight, i managed to wake slightly later than the usual time i need to wake up for work. Then lazily took 858 to airport. Wasnt a very short journey but i think i slept on the way there. I suppose thats the way i manage all the long bus rides. SLEEP!!!! but make sure you do not oversleep, that is.

This is the 2nd time im going overseas with the gal throughout our 11 yrs friendship... was damn looking forward to it

As u guessed it, when two crazy gals meet up, they do crazy things...

We tried out the BIG FOOT available for trial , disregarding the hygiene factor!!!! so many people have probably put their FOOT inside before!!!!! and Cecilia cant seem to leave the Disney Kids corner!!! She would have missed the plane if i had not pulled her away.


The immigration card. They did not keep it!! I still have it with me now

Tan Son Nhat airport!!!!! We finally reached HCM!!! a much anticipated trip, after i nearly had to beg to obtain my leave. sighz

After checking into the hotel, we WALKed to ben thanh market. and frantically started looking for food! I had not eaten anything since the morning!! Since we had little dong with us, we had to find $ changer. But did not see any in sight. In our desperation, we had to ask the caucasians there. Understand that they are probably not locals but we had no choice!! The Viets probably speak little or no English and we speak no Viet!!!! Finally we got the answer... the $ changer is their gold shop!!!! Amazing but we made a dash for the nearest gold shop for the dong to buy the food we need desperately!
But even after obtaining our dong, we did not know what to eat for all menus are in Viet!! Finally spot a stall with English menu. Randomly ordered something off the menu. It a weird bowl filled with things that look like salad. Its cold and you have to add some sauce before u mixed up the whole bowl. But amazingly, it tastes good. refreshing. But even till know, i duno what this dish is called. Probably someone who happens to see this can enlighten me?
Ben Thanh offers nothing that caught our attention. Prices were steep too. And since we reach there about 4pm and the market closed at 5pm, we only managed to briefly explored the market before adjourning to the night market outside. Once we step outside, it was BUYING and bargaining non-stop. They offer bags from as low as S$5 but mostly cost S$10.
After all the shopping, its time to look for our dinner. The roadside stall offers appetitising snacks and decided that these shall be our dinner. Theres a stall that sells fried stuff like fishball, hotdogs, tofu, quails egg etc. dipped into a black sauce they provide. Yummy Yummy.

Another part of our dinner consist of some fried corn. they fry the corn with oil and other stuff and asked if we wanted egg. Egg with corn just doesnt sound right so we had it without the corn.


The picture speaks for itself. Scary. Amazingly, we tested about a quarter of the egg till we reach some spongy part which we had no idea what it is. Other than the unbearable spongy part, the egg white part takes like salted egg.

Our 战利品for Day 1. As like in Secondary school, we bought 2 tops in same design but different colours to be worn on the 2nd day.