Directly outside the airport, there are a lot of taxi. hmm.. the taxi driver speak a little of english and we understood that the route to our hotel will cost us about USD$25. As we do not know the price, we agreed with him but little did we know that, a very big parang has been placed on our neck!haha...
From the airport till our hotel, HOSEN HOTEL took us about 30mins. The hotel is located at district 1 whr all the other main hotels are located. If im not wrong, it cost us USD$33 per day for the hotel. Cheap rite! Highly recommend using AGODA.com to book ur hotel as i saw their rate there is USD$45 per day.
After kaotim checking in, there we go for our first lunch! haha.. damn happy as my main purpose thr is to MAKAN!from our homework makan list, we chosen a shop named as Pho Hua. As it is the first day, dun have any direction sense at all and with the map it seems useless. So we started simply walking around using our SIX SENSED! haha.. Anyhow, we walked the wrong direction but it let us spotted a nice cosy cake shop whr HC bought his first loaf of bread thr.
天不做媒，it started to rain!Alamak.. only BK has a small umbrella.. never mind, the fastest way to get to our destination is.. 把手拿起来，挥挥手.. very fast thr is a taxi BUT after all of us in the taxi, our first problem surfaced!Communication problem! the taxi driver do not understand little english at all. tried to explain for about 5mins, i gave up and said "we walk". i think he only undertand my last phrase as he nodded his head. haha.. luckily the rain only drizzle by then.. lazy to find the shop, we just crossed the road to a shopping center, Vincom right in front of us for our lunch.
We still had Pho for our first lunch. The shop name is Pho 24 which is a franchise Pho shop around Vietnam. In case u do not know, Pho is a rice noodles with beef but now already available with other combinations. Its actually my first experience eating Vietnam delicacies.. The taste of the Pho is quite bland but still ok to me but I hate the peppermint leaf which they used in their spring roll. I just HATE it!hahaha... the rice paper give me a feeling that im really eating paper.. puik puik! haha... overall for 4 person, we spend around USD$25.
After our lunch, walked over to Saigon Tourist. There were a few package for us to choose. Finally we chose 3 trips, which were the Mekong and Vinlong Tour, Chu Chi Tunnel and Water Puppet show + a cruise dinner. Its also a headache when come to pay the bills as the notes here are so big in numbers! i have forgotten the exact price that we paid but for 3 of these trips i cost us more than USD$100. After paying already felt that im 70% broke. haha..
to be cont...
FYI: Pho should be read as "fur" + pin yin second sound.. haha.. Vietnam language really hears like Thai language.
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