Saigon

Recently hopped on to a trip to Ho Chi Minh City with family. Ho Chi Minh is not very famous as a tourist destination though. But they do have ultimately delicious food! And best of all, its a place for all coffee lovers out there!

Roasted Pigeons! They're delicious but of course, when comparing them to the ones in Hong Kong, the Hong Kong's Lung Wah is still better. The pigeon is too dry and the taste is somewhat similar to duck. Its quite not that tough, but the pigeon is quite small.

Chili is awesome! It may look like a normal harmless green chili, but it isn't much like its appearance. This will blow your mind away! **HOTTT**

Wanton noodles? Yup. We went to district 5, which was Chinatown, thus, they had chinese food. And guess what, yup the people don't speak english, but those at Chinatown speaks Cantonese :)

This is one drink you'll see EVERYWHERE! They love serving tea in ice. And its refreshing!

OK, coffee lovers! This is what to look for when you're in Vietnam. The authentic coffee! They use this small filter to serve your coffee. So you'll have to wait for your coffee to be brewed manually, and once the water have dripped completely, you're ready to drink.

I am not a coffee fan, but from what boy told me, he said its very thick and very unusual. Dad liked it, and said that it was sweet O.o Hmmm. I can't give much comments but you should try it yourself :)

This is another food, it is from their road side stall, and its quite cute. You don't sit on normal size tables and chair, but you sit on the stool which is super small and low and its by the side of the road. This dish is an omelete, fried with some kuey sauce, and the other one was egg with some weird ingredient which i don't know, because they can't speak english. But it was nice and it merely cost like $2-3 bucks only? CHEAP!

Besides eating, there is not much sight seeing in Ho Chi Minh, but there are still some at district 1.

This is taken right outside the palace. We took quite a while to find the entrance of the palace though. Because the cab driver brought us to another place instead.

And this was the place he alighted us. It was the same address, with the same attraction name, but it is the back entrance -.- looks different right? The first thing that came to our mind was, "this is a palace?!" Hahaha!

Before going back, one of Dad's friend decided to bring us to a park which is out of the city area, the whole cab care literally cost about 40 bucks i think! NOT CHEAP! And its damn far, approximately 1 hr and 30 mins ride.

But after reaching the place, it was totally worth it, it looked like those places it China where people film those "olden days" shows.

Gate of the temple. Inside, there was temple, amusement park, and normal park! Its huge!

This is the walkway towards the huge temple inside, its all decorated nicely with sunflowers, and they were maintaining it well.

This is the stairs to the temple. Literally look like stairs to the palace in Beijing. But this is the miniature version. Boy loved it so much, so he took a picture with Dad's Friend.

Ok, that's roughly the end of our 4-5 days trip. Quite fun actually, and Ho Chi Minh is like Singapore in the 60s.

Air fare and accommodation costs approximately SGD$1000 for 4, which was quite cheap. But do not expect much there, as shopping was little :)

Will update on my Hong Kong trip when Sab uploads the pictures.