The clock tower structure is where Ben Thanh Market is. See how crazy the traffic is? And there are no overhead bridges or underpasses in sight. They seem to be non-existent in Vietnam.


Half of our dinner... The omelet in clam was very delicious.

This is actually fish...

TV-watching was a great pastime.

We went to Cu Chi Tunnel, the place where the Vietcong resisted the American soldiers during the Vietnam War, and this was our tour guide for the day. A very interesting person with a load of wildfire wartime stories based on real-life experience. Very prejudiced view points though that are sometimes hard to swallow and instead we had to stifle bits of laughter at the parts where he abruptly fired witty comments.

We had a rest-point here where we saw Vietnamese hard at work displaying traditional craftsmanship.

Leon and I both loved this picture quite alot.

Very nice wall decorations.

"Hey you *&(^**% recruits, I can't hear your reply! Do you understand me?"
"Yes sir."

Back to the army for Yi Meng.

Booby trap... I wonder what happens when a stray cat jumps onto the wooden board...

The tour guide, Mr Bin (or Bean) demonstrating how a Vietnamese soldier squats, with the feets fully touching the ground.

Talking about how Vietnamese drink rice wine to fight the cold due to Malaria.

Posing with an abandoned damaged US tank. Ar*y openhouse will probably have nicer ones to take a picture with but this is historic value for you.

Yimeng trying hard for marksmanship. He's really willing to part with his money for this. It's about US1.20 for one live round. (which means one bullet)


Everyone looks so happy in the 150m long tunnel even though it's claustrophobic, dark (what you see here is a result of hi-technology known a flash), stuffy and HOT.

That's the Central Post Office.

Notre Dame Cathedral, not the one in Paris.

Gasp Yimeng has dealings with young kids?!

Caught in the act...

The Post office

The interior of the post office. I thought it looked more like a railway station, where there will be a wall that leads to Platform 9 and 3 quarters like that in Harry Potter.






Having fun with the air-conditioned telephone booth.

Shadows in the light.

The hussle and bustle of Ho Chi Minh. Just a regular day for them, a whole new day of discovery for us.

Our dinner at this classy seafood restaurant... Boy were we a spendthrift lot.

I hope you are not feeling too hungry.


Our steamboat. The restaurant had a live Chinese Orchestra performance to create the perfect ambience but we felt weird because we were dressed in t-shirts and bermudas while the tables beside ours were occupied by Japanese tourists.

It doesn't look as difficult as it might be to cross this bridge.. The kid gave a good demonstration.



We the fishermen..

小楼一日听春雨

Fish again..

Idling...

Different types of dumplings at this restaurant that sells Hue cruisine. Just unwrapping the dumpling takes abit of patience because there are like so many layers of leaves..

This dish tastes something like our 水粿.

Before this turns into a food blog, I am only trying to emphasise how much we ate over there at Vietnam. We were like flipping through the menu at this restaurant and randomly ordering anything that attracted our attention, be it the name of the dish or the picture. The waiter found it hard to keep up with our orders and had to force a smile to ask us to slow down. Poor him. The service was great though, but it must have been a scary experience for him because we looked like a bunch of hungry ghosts...





After a series of 秀色可餐，we shall end with a picture of Zhehan. At the Ho Chi Minh City Hall

A closer look if you were not focusing on it in the picture above. Hehe

What made Yimeng so happy he was in fits of laughter... is a secret.

At the War Remnants Museum...

The guillotine.

Everyone leaves the musuem with one thought: that history will not repeat itself.

Reunification Palace

And we shall end this with a short clip taken when we were on the taxi heading to the Ho Chi Minh City Airport.