Posts Tagged ‘Saigon Life’

There seems to be no weekend activity more popular for well-to-do Saigonese than to visit their neighborhood electronics store. Today, I went on the hunt for a new webcam (used to have a built-in on my Mac, but alas…).
I found myself among throngs of Vietnamese consumers jammed up against glass displays, hopping from floor [...]


I once read that you couldn’t really catch up on sleep. Not true in my experience! I do plenty of sleep-catching up on Sundays! This morning, I woke up for the usual Sunday routine: Get breakfast with the roommate. Today, we had banh cuon (rice paper with fish sauce and pork [...]