The Saigon Vietnam Travel in sunny spring

Pulse beautiful beautiful dresses, thousands of people, especially the pair of young men and women ... flock to the spring flower associations in the city to walk, take pictures under the sun weather.
Lunar New Year to Every spring, the streets of Saigon Vietnam filled flower color from a convergence. U.S. presence is everywhere from the home, the street, to the park ... All of them create a fresh spring air.

But after a year people are hard work, most have put aside the daily work to spend time shopping for the New Year, Tet. Besides busy preparing the house cleaning, shopping for the very wealthy New Year, many people also do not forget to plan streets watching the flowers.
Tet, the Assembly flowers in the city always bustling. Remains the most crowded flower market, flower associations in the city center as: Tao Dan Park 23 / 9, United Nguyen Hue street ...
Is the convergence of hundreds of fresh flowers, are decorated in green space filled with a variety of pets, exhibitions, musical theater ... Tao Dan Assembly flowers is always an ideal space to attract more families to enjoy the spring.
From early morning, the family Tuyet Mai (District 11, Saigon Vietnam) chose the perfect outfit for the spring flower market Tao Dan sightseeing cruises. She was the daughter of her mother is for the dress and umbrella do not stop taking pictures.
"I knew today was to walk her gardens, she should remind themselves every day. Early urged parents to prepare maps. Although much work still busy but I eager to see my wife and I also have to arrange time . How well have the whole year on going out a bit rather leisurely, "she looked at her daughter Mai is Tíu headlines with his father laughed happily.
This is an opportunity to unleash your child to look photographic memories preserved in Vietnam. The makeup girl splendid in the long slender dress also became the model for the photographer compose.
Located in the busiest city, Nguyen Hue flower road opening on the night of 20 / 1, has welcomed numerous residents and visitors. Many people expressed surprise and pleasure when watching the images of the Vietnam countryside as clumps of bamboo, fields, bridges, fishing village, elected laden ... the reproduction of the street with the two sides are tall buildings.

Bronze casting in old Saigon Vietnam

Saigon is a bronze casting craft folk. If you omit the existence of a bronze casting of the natives, the bronze casting of the Vietnamese may have appeared since the first generation to open land - With the demand for weapons and items students work ... And, increasingly supplemented by the development of later migration waves. Throughout the history of Vietnam, from time to time Phung Nguyen Dong Son, through the North of autonomy until the end of time, never missing a large center casting on the ground in Vietnam, the objects are retained are very rich in number, unique styles, designs.
 XVIII century, in old Saigon Vietnam has gradually formed a specialized area of ​​bronze casting. The area is earliest areas Cho Quan (now part of District 5) with 3 Tan Kieng ancient village, Nhan Binh Giang and Yen. The artisans are now casting immigrant workers from the ward in Quy Nhon on. They quickly gathered and cast into the village craftsmen produce goods such as copper pots, copper pans, copper boxes, incense burners, candlestick ... are all popular.

 
Next to the Tan Hoa Dong area (now part of District 6) specializes in the manufacture of Quality, and cook the lamp into ingots. One of the most outstanding works is the region's children have been cast in this series from the last century. Unfortunately, the artists in Tan Hoa Dong unknown ancestors come from.
In addition there are two areas on the two other regions known for bronze casting in Ho Chi Minh city Vietnam:
- Thuan Kieu Area (Hoc Mon), from the nineteenth century has been known for casting incense hereditary. OO is the second production model Quality: Lu north (top bass) and travel south (incense burners), special training also produces the super bowl and collect the weapons. Line workers in this area are mainly descendants of central casting workers have set up business here from many generations.
- Area "The West Assembly" (Go Vap) long and is home to many craft of bronze casting furnace. Product incense "The West Assembly" quite common. According to some older artists, the casting was bequeathed by his father.
Early twentieth century, Fine Arts School in Thu Dau Mot and Bien Hoa Fine Arts was established, contributing to the manufacturing sector since the copper handicrafts. Students are mostly local in Saigon. Product of the artisan training school mainly as the head women the South, Central, Northern and quite interesting phenomenon known ...
In the mid-twentieth century, some families in Ngu Xa (Hanoi) to settle in the Hoa Hung (Saigon Vietnam) carrying three bronze casting extra gas, forming a small local neighborhood gas tam casting here . Their work is carefully cast in bronze and three gas (gold, silver, copper) to the Bronze Age it. Their products are of the primary gods and other appliances, but born after calving late, but they hold the exclusive rights of production, the skilled, beautiful products to the gas tam Hoa Hung is widely speak order.

We can say, bronze casting in old Saigon has a yellow ball. Its products are diverse, ranging from home appliances to worshiping such as pots, trays, pans, green, betel boxes, Quality, leg lamps, incense bowl, vase, statue, statues, people, the animals, bathing gas, super-trained ... almost bronze casting in old Saigon was quite sufficient to meet the needs of the use of local residents.
Regarding the organization of production, long in old Saigon-style production that form the family unit. In the family, the father or grandfather often act as foreman, the children, your grandchildren are the preferred workers for paternal and maternal relatives, where they really need to hire people outside the family. Casting the time the means of livelihood of the family should keep their best professional secret. Where the cook at work as much as they re-cast the exchange of each other, ensuring the technology has kept professional secret.
As usual, the December 25 annual lunar day of bronze casting in Tan Hoa Dong. On this day, as well as on adjacent Tet, foreman, worker you assembles, cleaning supplies, offering glasses, eating together and wait for the lunar new year holidays offer the producers.
Technically, in general the same area in old Saigon Vietnam cast have done a similar three stages: Stage molding; of the cast and finally cooled stage. Particularly need eight bronze casting gas must also add that further stages: three stages of processing and gas separation stages and eight extra gas and dye polishing stage products.
It can be said bronze casting craft in old Saigon is a profession with high technology. The foreman who must know a lot of knowledge, to grasp the whole process on the copper from the mixing of raw materials to the mold, the casting, to touch (touch the sink, embossed, colorful touch or care if the three gas lines). They even have more sub paintings, sculpture, clay statues, jewelry ... This does not include to have the eyes of an industrial design to create ...

Saigon Vietnam love...

The architecture of religious buildings or highly detailed decorative art has elements of Vietnamese, Cham, Khmer ... The combination of structural, architectural styles, building materials, decorative threads, between the West and East - native and foreign born, making the work in Saigon Vietnam the French have a style of architecture, in particular, is known as the Indochinese architectural style, reflecting the trend of "neo office "of the Western urban architecture during the late 19th - early 20th century in many Asian countries.

As of January 4.2010, the city has 124 works, place the vestige, including: a special national monument (Reunification Palace), 53 national monuments, 70 city-level relics. Systems in landscape relics of an "old Saigon" made "identity Saigon." But now "the identity of Saigon" is dead, by the modern high-rises. Son of Dong Khoi Street is a case like that. This is probably the most popular route and is the oldest of old Saigon Vietnam.
Located in District 1, this path focuses more luxurious hotels, shops, coffee shops, book stores ... has become a cultural destination familiar to several generations of Saigon. Eden Park Corridor with theaters, silk stores, souvenirs, bookstores Spring - Thu, opposite the Opera House is famous Givral coffee shop, but lately it's more famous by the song "Vinh Givral special "- C'est Fini Givral. This song made me remember the romantic drama "Last Summer in Capri" has made the hearts vibrate, but for now it makes more people brimming with tears. A portion of Saigon past no longer exists. Givral and other relics lost, Saigon risk is no longer a city of memories ... I also like people, no one wants to hear "C'est Fini ..." for the cultural heritage left of Saigon.

But Saigon is not only "lost" that has expanded and changed each day. Nhieu Loc and Thi Nghe "well known" black-hour channel is being dredged, embankment, no longer will be the "baby blue channel" flow in the heart of the city. A project on the high road along the canal, with dozens of horizontal bridge will become a "focal point" for the old center of Saigon. District 4 District Khanh Hoi Bridge across the famous "black society" for a while, now the wide streets, spacious homes have popped up.
Nha vast low-lying land of golden coconut candy salty, now eight-lane boulevard between the new urban area Phu My Hung beautiful dream! These village farms the Go Vap, Tan Binh or Hoc Mon, Cu Chi also has a new city. The speed of urbanization in Saigon fairly quickly, the city planning has not kept pace development, and thus avoid confusion, the construction of spontaneous discretion residential development interspersed commercial, industrial ...
Saigon Vietnam now has over 7 million people, mostly people from the country. Through years of hard living, many have understood where I was born to send Me, to send commercial, Saigon is also a day where we can live out their ... If you do too "biased" love for where buried together cut the cord, then our love for Saigon will be fairer, because it is their city, because we also have the Saigon! Saigon better understand, we will identify heavy heart filled with love of the people that outspoken liberal here.
Thirty-five years living in Saigon, Saigon live with, if I may say "my Saigon"? I, as a country. I, as a place for letting me grow up. I, as a passionate romance that quietly faithful all my life ...

Saigon Vietnam - urban ruins

So with over 300 years of Saigon Vietnam - Gia Dinh established administration, compared with more than 3000 years this area of ​​human traces in the oldest, 35 years I lived in Saigon just blinked! I suddenly realized that never once seemed to say love with this city.
Many people have loved, loved Saigon. Maybe this is the place to bury them together cut the cord, where they have to leave home to earn a living and are widely shared Saigon. Maybe a place to leave her first love, where they abandoned the hope one day that always come back ... But for many people, love Saigon Vietnam is hard to express in words, not reasonable for Saigon as a beautiful girl gentle, feminine affection puts people to then say with his love? Saigon offers the look of modern girls, dynamic and simple, a beautiful but shy people often want to speak love ... Many years ago I, too, absorbed remember our beautiful city to any of childhood, so that one day I realized my revenues fell in love with Saigon when unknown ...

Notre Dame Cathedral, Saigon. Photo: Huy Giang

My impression is first met bustling Saigon River water filled with large vessels lying close to the Nguyen Hue Boulevard. Wandering the streets are always crowded, towering green trees in the sunshine, sunny girls long dress and white bicycle flying in the wind. The luxury villa is hidden behind a barrier of trees, the bright lights temple lime color ...
Compared with Hanoi or Hue, Saigon seems like a lack of deposition of "soul mountain river thousands of years", because this is a European-style modern city - the United States. But  Saigon Vietnam offers a unique shape urban south "wharf boat". Originally, the assumptions used and the angle of the Saigon River Thi Nghe River. Extending a few kilometers south-west, is Cholon, the majority of the U.S., located on the junction of canals crisscrossed each other, connected by canals of the Saigon River, also known as Tau Hu, Ben Nghe canal. Referring to Saigon, we remember right to market two famous Ben Thanh Market - river towns the most important trade of the Gia Dinh and Cholon - the largest trading hub in Cochin.
Phase formation Ben Nghe - Saigon is a period of rapid melting pot of people from many parts of the community here. The process of reclaiming up incubation, production development ..., save the people have maintained the traditions, customs, beliefs and religions of the new homeland in the land. Houses, pagodas, temples and shrines, clubs ... built in about 300 years to show the diversity and convergence of the cultural communities and spiritual activities of the Vietnamese, the Hoa, Khmer, Cham.
Like many Southeast Asian countries, colonial architecture late 19th century the first half of the twentieth century has left Saigon many architectural heritage of high artistic value. The path taken across the Saigon River divides the city as a standard in the boxes. On the main street offices, business district, hotels, restaurants ... The lane is the residence of world public servants, employees, the beautiful villa, then the rows of terraced houses, deeper in the canyon the neighbors 'home leaves' of employees ... Every few squares have a church-centered spiritual activities. We can see three vertices of the triangle is the center of the city three churches: Our Lady - Tan Dinh District - Si.

Saigon Vietnam Cafe style

 Land: (located in an alley on To Hien Thanh Street)Alley is the household head Thien Duong. This is a cafe restaurant in Jade Phoenix series (including land, AQ, Impermanence, Humanities, ...). Land is setting a very ... "earth", rustic, peaceful, relaxed, where you should go if you have a certain sadness, as in you will not remember anything. Space is relatively large, delicious coffee, the price is about 10,000 VND. If you come to Earth on Thursday, you may be offered a newspaper Saigon Vietnam Marketing.
Mori: (in general 43 Ho Van Hue)This consistency is probably the number one sidewalk cafe Saigon. Tables and chairs laid out in Moore's apartment park, very cool and calm. If you're lucky to be here drinking coffee (say so much because of winter, many hours to go on Lang E), chat with friends, you will find it very relaxing. Ly rock cafe in Mori cost 4,000 VND but very tasty.
An Nam (Annam old): (intersection of Truong Dinh - Vo Thi Sau)Where a vehicle crossing busy but just step into the restaurant, you seem lost in a different world. An Nam has two areas: garden and air conditioning. Garden with plants - flowers, lyrical landscapes, open space for people who still account for natural 2 / 3 of the bar area and is divided into different areas, separated by grade levels, stream child or a small bridge. Air-conditioned area is designed and decorated quite fussy with each cell triangular glass, ceramic wall tiles ... The highlight of this area is a flower garden is surrounded by transparent glass just to admire the natural , just as for light wells.
Cafe of the restaurant is delicious, by the owner family grown and processed to take, therefore that "every drop of coffee flowing with the situation as proof of the employer", the price is about 10,000 VND - 15,000 VND.
Uyen Nguyen: (Located in the alley at 151 Nguyen Van Troi)Uyen Nguyen is a famous cafe has luxurious, just quiet, just stylish but bold ancient Vietnamese culture. You can not help but be captivated by the bold decorative Vietnamese culture of the ancient town of Hoi An, from things like wooden pillars, roof tiles, window frames ... and the painting, the glass to the page layout light, bent wood furniture old-fashioned, are purchased by employers from 4 and 10 determine the roof of the old houses in Hoi An offer to take on construction and decoration shop. Here, there are many kinds of plants folk, popular varieties were brought here as ornamental bananas, architecture, bamboo, vines of all kinds ...


Thuy Truc: (located on Bui Thi Xuan)
There are cafe cheap prices but the atmosphere is quiet, the sound system is arranged to make smart music on this next gold strike where people drink. Thuy Truc very special, is a cafe not a customer is God: you have to drive the car into the restaurant, you can not go large, you can not talk to, joke around, you do not "film", you can not ... you may not ..., etc. ... Thuy Truc like a temple of the soul, you're like a follower of Thuy Truc very comfortable and you will follow the rules. This is the appropriate address for your small group to feelings very Saigon.
Grammy: (No. 40 Tran Cao Van, District 1, Ho chi minh city)This is a pretty nice restaurant decoration, luxury sound system was installed smart, pretty good music. Rock Grammy cup of coffee at a price of 14,000 VND, mixed quite tasty. In particular, you can see the musicians, singers of the city water here like Lam Truong, Thanh Thao, Hong Ngoc, Quang Dung, ...
Quiet (alley 63 or 65 Phan Dinh Phung Street)Quan has two parks, garden-style rustic, airy and Japanese-style upstairs, still. Glass of ice coffee here cost 12,000 VND. Lunch upstairs, sat down carpet, sat drinking coffee and listening to music is open indeed very little relaxation. It seems consistent with a ground floor, first floor ... step into the stream will see a small path between the two sides are tables and chairs for guests ... corner to the right is the staircase to go upstairs ... how to decorate tables and chairs under the are normal ... but upstairs is a little bit like Bon Nhut ... no ... the only desk chair ... and a pad to sit out for each guest ... It serves a lot of tea ...
Central: Central located in Sun Wah building on Nguyen Hue, Saigon.Central famous cafe on the sidewalk with advanced phase is quite tasty coffee.
Hi-end coffee (217 Nguyen Van Thu Street, District 1)
The owner was trying to build this place into a class room listening to music "pro". Even the arrangement of the room surface area of ​​walls, ceilings, sound system as well as how to solve a math problem. That's not to mention the layout and installation of speakers, seating for guests to sit back to enjoy the feel sounds best. Quan was born addicted to his people say the country music genre, jazz, pop, folk. One feature of the restaurant is lovely too little space, close to the music people are more likely to know each other. In particular, the owner is people in the profession, he has fun with everyone sharing a passion for Hi-end audio and store your CD collection a unique worldwide.
Dao Nguyen (Quang Trung street - Go Vap, saigon Vietnam)This must go straight into the restaurant terrace, features a look straight through the airport. Seeing firsthand the plane took off, landing, clear view of both airlines in the field, sitting there looking cool black flight is a new feel that Lang is not death, hoping to share the same you.

Saigon Vietnam own private language

Saigon voice who sometimes express the same sentence, but with much different tone gamut to carry different meanings. Small crowd stirring, against breaking, the sister yelled, his voice slightly and nearly one hour each, a little humor in it "dzui Dzu hen." His friends the same age, generally sit, laugh, a fun accent tall "dzui Dzu hen!" ... People have a habit of Saigon Vietnam or "treatment" tone at the end to saying the word carries a different tone when anger, when the prank as "Hay dzuuuu", "Good dzuuuu ..." Listen to the talk of Saigon, in speech, see "Stop à BLOCKED" "Stop à" quite a lot, as a habit and the "grace" in the voice of Saigon.

The Saigon talk, do not pronounce some words, and the listener or confused sounds "d, v, gi" as well as Hanoi pronounce words with consonants and the first "r" so. Strictly speaking it is wrong, but to write and understand what they did wrong, it's that voice of Saigon Vietnam, the listener is immediately known. Nor that there must be due to the Saigon not really pronounce the words do not anymore, or was due to speak and the word "d, v, gi" was used by the mouth, upon the mouth and with voice Saigon. For example, say "Go play your dzui Dze hen", the Saigon says it ... upon the mouth and more natural than to say "Go play fun hen." Said to be "fun" is still there but feeling rather shy mouth it do that threshold.
The Saigon South in particular and in general, have a habit of using the word "labor" to talk, unlike the North to use the word "yes". May notice that few people speak from Saigon "yes". When someone calls, a Saigon say "yes" is in the shadow of a voice saying that joke, laugh. When talking to my older, less often the buffer between "labor" in every sentence. "Do not eat children? - Yes, not yet! ";" Each site / Dze kid Huh? - Yes, the new baby! "... The" labor "that do not know how the feeling of hearing someone with a Saigon Saigon that it" usually "... that pleasant intimacy, gentle but emotional very much. Feeling it's own compared to other places. Heard a "labor" is that even this name was the South that it would or.
A different domain, be it North or Central, described a short time a few days, said "From that meal to meal," he said, and the Saigon say "today", "walk it" ... people listening will not understand, let alone for that brief seats. (Lai discovered one thing that people in Saigon, or use the word "seat" behind the words to describe a particular feelings. Tiếng "seats" that did not imply anything more, it may mean "many" , is "very". In "Little That [" which means praise her so much.) compares Back from "Today" with "On rails" or hear in the rural South, and an equally significant , but not exactly alike. Saigon hear some use the word "day ray, strokes ..." is the domain of the Saigon River to imitate it. But listening is not the left ear, do not feel forced, as in the Saigon South is still a common substance.
French Saigon is so, if you talk fake accent of Saigon, even if just a few hours, but missed a few cushions, a few hours this own personal Saigon was right ... "you know what side fighting out feet first!"

Say "voice" of Saigon Vietnam

The voice of Saigon Vietnam is not luxury, what was the land as people voice the North, nor quiet, sound bar sound like Hue Neurology, the accent of Saigon to the ear, the heart, in a sense, and so miss People of Saigon and other parts with the sweetness of the South River, with the honest truth nature of ancient traditions, and in both the "nature of Saigon" blood flowing in each of the people of Saigon. Where to go, far away from Saigon, suddenly heard a "Yes" with the word "asthma, choking," found in Saigon as being out front with business in mind ...

There is a walk in a paper read on Saigon - Gia Dinh Nam Son of the writer, has written that his voice Saigon Vietnam, as well as culture and people of Saigon as a blend and fusion of interference to many places . It is the local Cham, Hoa visitors who are central to put family first ... Since then, a kind of language that native people have borrowed to open the land ...
Saigon's voice is considered the voices of the South, as well as the voice of Hanoi considered the voices of the North. Tone accent that is not mixing, not modified the passing of time. As the voices of people talking about Hanoi, it is said to warm accent light, the bass when the scholarship, as sharp as the bar, and no one can deny who speak very good Hanoi and "skilled". The "skilled" as he belongs to the nature of the Ha Noi Ha Noi, only the last has been. To say that people say that Vietnam theater, then only the right to Hanoi "said the song" only, graphics only reasonable voice of the girl Hue Hue is compared with thoughtful new world ... The Saigon von the other, his voice is different Saigon. Not sweet sugar cane back ... as some people southwestern coastal wetland sediment immense carrying nine dragons, not as heavy joskin Southeastern burning flesh, and sweet voice of Saigon, but is so sweet, lighter. That voice "urban" proud of Saigon, and no where to be that although others have also difficult to imitate. It seems that over the years along with Gia Dinh - Saigon vanity in rhythm, in innovation and development, the voice of the people in Saigon had become "noble" than. However, there is a "bar" of a land once the capital of South Vietnam, but did not lose what I do not give up simplicity of the common southern origin.
Human voices are heard Saigon say that instant. Saigon sat two people talking together at a country restaurant, the street or over the phone, they easily recognize. The voice is not as high as people in Hanoi, not as severe as the Chinese, but on its own peer into delirium ... that something special in the way people talk together Saigon is it from "congestion and asthma, appointment" at the end ... The other domain is pleasure, is in love with Saigon because it uses the word "congestion and asthma" is. Visitors to the game, the next owner. Guests on, then let go a laugh saying "Well, I DROPPED plate" - The owner laughed, "Yeah, hen dzay disk image." Speaking on the telephone was born, to the story and hung up, someone said "Red what's more, only dzay hen" "time" here means stop, end, ending something. Two of you talk together, caught something fun, go to her head next to "Make an appointment to the machine?" Comfortable with the tone ...

Saigon Vietnam, the old coffee ...

Saigon has become a "paradise" coffee with a lot of style, rank. The coffee is "drinking" a unique culture of this new land. It is unclear the first cup of coffee mixed in Saigon how, but writer Son Nam problem, this new land had appeared earlier two cafes are owned by the French Lyonnais (now on Ly Tu Trong ) and Café de Paris (on Dong Khoi Street) from 1864. Coffee and gradually formed a cultural flow, your negative, intimates of many layers of Saigon Vietnam ...
When the French warships entered Saigon, the drops of butter flavor coffee is slowly flowing on this new land. In signing the Indo-day, adventure writer Claude Bourrin canvas tells a coffee table booked out around the Opera House. Now crowded, stuffy smell of sweet coffee throughout the region.

On the streets of this area, many coffee shops also quickly emerged as Café de la Musique, Grand Café de la Terrasse, Café des Fleurs ... to serve man expedition and natives soon absorbed the Western way of life .
The eyes of the author also subtly visible image while the husbands who gathered to chat in French cafes, then the lady you walk the chariot keng leng.
Then she turned the car more consistent to catch her husband is still second immersed with warm scented water. Claude did not forget Bourrin leisurely recounted the remarks to small, sometimes vulgar, soldier of the expedition on which the French ladies like flowers that rare childhood in Saigon ...
In the 20 years war, another angle of Saigon Vietnam, the journalist Edith Lederer (now head of AP bureaus in the United Nations), during a visit to Saigon in 2010 were in the Caravelle Hotel, and said: "Van AP's office building is located on Eden. Journalists we sat in Givral, Brodard, say enough about the world and hear the news. "
"Coffee axis" of three restaurant La Pagode, Givral, Brodard was once the press center of Saigon. There, the world's top names in journalism as Peter Arnett, Larry Burrows ... have had time to coffee, waiting and fighting with the hottest information of the Vietnam War. Also in the "coffee axis" that, "Minister Givral" Pham Xuan An was also the year Givral coffee coffee beneath the Associated Press office. He was Time magazine journalist, a best intelligence in Vietnam during the war.
Now no longer La Pagode, Givral also deactivated with Eden Court. But passing the Saigon area was still seeing bright lights and bustle Brodard coffee right fork Dong Khoi - Nguyen cards. Name Brodard still here but the "gu" coffee flavor turned to Gloria Jean's. The Vietnamese, objectivity West merged together the coffee cups. Each year, when the old people of the Vietnam War back many memories of visiting this city, Brodard - Gloria Jean's has raised the very clear in their minds. There, the crowd sat journalists, politicians travel information disturbed Saigon shake hands when the page message to the world.
Besides the cafe attached history, there are old Saigon cafe popular as the other side clear and honest people of this country. Hoang Huu Phuoc teacher training in childhood remembered holding a coffee cup to buy the parent of Indonesia. He said: "She all full tennis for the coffee powder embedded comments, racket up and down and then pour a cup of coffee. She finished serving boiling water, cover and continue to tennis. My dad addicted, addicted to my grandfather as well. "
Indonesia Nightlife day located on Nguyen Thien Arts. Both the type of coffee used tennis (also known as "coffee sock" - because female tennis socks for residues) are also rarely seen in Saigon. Later traveled all over, he still remembers the coffee Phuoc tennis day: "It's a mix of cowboys, hot water for cooking, incense smoke passionate the room ...".
Director Wall The old days he was writing science student Saigon want to remember in the old story: "The old woman selling coffee with them but always grinning. She knew every single person likes. Tennis racket out of water for coffee, he always did her constant sales conversation with customers. Nursing In popular restaurant so crowded, there was no seating. Loss aroma of coffee aroma. "
With Wall Method, coffee pavement where he had met the most important film of my life. Once, while looking out to film documentary about the hell out reformed Ba Van, he was the artist of this old reminder of the early morning cup of coffee.
Housing Bau Sen, Mr Ba Van Bau Sen got up early to market coffee and looking at people carrying cotton, fruits and vegetables, sad and happy about winning season failures. Coffee morning has helped the old man's sense of time that the blood flow to flourish in the role.
In Saigon, it was found in toad sidewalk restaurant or take that corner, the masters of literature, poets like Son Nam, Bui Christmas ... sitting next cyclo do the flood. Mr. Hoang Huu Phuoc said: "Christmas In Bui alive, the students or to us my coffee in the alley, facing the temple Nguyen Dinh Chieu Member States and met with him sitting there with your last three or four years each other. Then I saw him give cyclo car right there, sitting shoulder cosh cigarettes called coffee shops. "
Then how about the land and the South came to coffee with writer Son Nam. Life and sweat his tractor, his porters as well from his cup of coffee that goes into each particular line of work Vuong Hong Sen, in each province say the poem, the poet Bui damage to Christmas.
The decade 1960-1970 also Saigon Vietnam cafes unforgettable poor, rough carpentry, which is sometimes cruel in the "oasis" Ma Lang, District 4 of the poor, the miss fire stations, military service evasion including siblings Wanderer, sale dew ...

Deep in the alley smoking hun, hang like a dark solid cafes her Paris, her seven orphanages, age ca In meat. One can only wear large bar sat drinking coffee, lively conversation rumors, draft evasion and presentation design ready to curse everything about heaven and on earth.
Many shop owners do not know half the words sometimes, but always the book available for people who take debit debt. Coffee prices very cheap but who still can not pay the debt. Every few hours innkeeper sighed she heard his hand, her "home trade" in the neighborhood that I can not return. Debit sheet tear away because people had to have lost my unhappiness at the corner alley, head cold that fair ...

Saigon Vietnam white porridge for full days

If you eat to get it, you probably do not choose soup. But at night stomach lining, porridge is the perfect choice. By bedtime, just mild abdominal porridge does not take much time. Especially the white soup Saigon Vietnam.
 Saigon, the morning is a man's wet spring dishes, afternoon sun has conducted depreciation familiar and unexpected touch of rain, and sometimes a little chilly evenings reminiscent adjacent Highland festival season. Modern life does not always allow the people to drop their imagination fly away like that. It's happy to be sitting with the family, after a day of hustle, capital and the life, slowly waiting for the warm bowl of plain porridge cold Saigon midnight.

 
The main material is rice to cook porridge and water. For soup pot with a moderate level constant, the volume of water usually have more than three times the volume of rice and a pot of porridge only. Start cooking the fire blazing be strong enough to be tumbling rice in boiling water and then burst out, and the more gentle flame and olive Riu gathered steam steadily for grain is ripe, cooked as long as the special porridge. Do not be eager to extend the fire pit only moderately until grains burst my chao in turbid waters of pure ivory from the rice is just smart.

A bowl of plain porridge like nothing special? Of course, the beauty of plain porridge Saigon is not so simple. By eating the soup is simple foods with plenty of attractive - those people pounding vegetables, simple as the people working here. Said that with only food, but for successful processing these items is also very wonderful and complex.
Most dishes are known to eat plain porridge with salted eggs (salted duck eggs) or eggs north seminars, three fried egg color. The beam out the yolks, stir together the soup, making soup normally turns white, emitting a smell today, fatty acids, hydrophilic foams enough to do at the hotel are hungry. If the client is preferred seafood soup can be eaten with white anchovy, goby with pepper, sesame dried anchovies, fried fish or the fish small shrimps garlic fire, sweet three dimensions, shrimp rim. Porridge with meat, a meat rub with pepper or other types of cotton (fish small shrimps) fish or meat rub cotton. As to make the dish becomes "more vegetarian", guests can also eat white rice porridge with various kinds of pickled cucumber sauce, tomato sauce or stir-fried dried shrimp beam dug ...
For me, the most popular soup is eaten with a sweet three dimensions. Pick a piece of three terms, three terms a bite, a sip of soup ... Warm puffy belly deeply! A bowl of plain porridge but how to satisfy customers with different tastes.
Both series have a beach bar called collectively the "porridge" white lies on Ly Chinh Thang (the old Pour Yen). Scattered about midnight, the guests hastily thrown into the restaurant, called a white soup bowl without selecting any wonder, any restaurant. Row does not belong to high class, space is somewhat limited, as diners flock by night as much. Fragrance of hot bowl of porridge in the limited space he knows it makes people closer together. Who knows from what their impact will be back softly at each other, smiling and talking openly with each other. They recognize each other again in the gu ... Just enjoy the time, taste soup fog mingled in the night as people hold on love. Say, suddenly pops up in my bowl of porridge images of stuffy smell sweet in the short story "Chi Pheo" of the writer Nam Cao - a picture is beautiful, deep and meaningful.
The feats to create delicious bowl of porridge should be met in respect of holiday guests, to enjoy with the new soul to feel the depth of the bowl of porridge was invited. Porridge is rich meaning in the lives of Vietnamese people, used as food for the sick, the elderly, children, or even simply a gift for the perfect night to eat ... a day.

Shop home between Saigon Vietnam Tet

You want to eat a Tet home with all sorts of jam cake, a specialty of all regions between Saigon Vietnam is not difficult, because now there are many specialty markets selling city, where residents crowded around migrants from all regions, a new career; the convergence of the culinary elite North, Central and South should not be hard to buy the special food of the people of the region.

North Market between downtown
 Called for the North but in fact this area focus more than 10 food stores North. Located on the Chu Manh Trinh (District 1), behind the Children's Hospital 2, "market" that sells rustic cuisine of northern land. Here, customers easily find new rice wine, Vodka Hanoi, Van Village Wine, Kim Son, a strong network, bamboo shoots of various species of northeastern Kan, North mushrooms, sesame candy peanuts, spring rolls, onion salt ... Not only that, from the flower stalks, cabbage, vegetables to squeeze incense tiles were brought from Ha Noi, Quang Ninh, Hai Phong on.
A little more upscale, specialty shops are scattered north on Tran Quoc Toan (District 3), Nguyen Dinh Chieu (District 3), Dien Bien Phu (Dien Bien Phu roundabout - Nguyen Binh Khiem Street, District 1 ) sold from the box jelly later, after sweet sugar, fried alligator, box tomorrow, Golden Dragon green bean cakes, tea Xinjiang, jam sen Hung Yen, Hai Hau sticky apricot citrus to all kinds of vegetables, fruits such as green crocodile, plum Hanoi, Vinh oranges. Tet, the store also has more orange soup, concerts, Compassion Slate apple, orange creature, San Lung alcohol, alcohol, corn The Pho ... personally by the owner of the store to get the North to shop, purchase. Thang said the shop owner Tien Thinh Tran Quoc Toan Street, District 3, said his store and several shops also ordered cakes from Hanoi moves on to serve hard.
Looking for local specialties Central
Tan Binh area crowded capital is central to living has long been the home market thanhax the central thick substance, which sells raw materials, the local cuisine of Central Saigon Vietnam. In it, Ms. Hoa market (Tran Mai Ninh, Ward 11, Tan Binh District), and along the Tan Binh Truong Chinh (near the Tan Son Nhat airport) is the most abundant commodity.
To these addresses, you can easily buy Bau Da wine throughout, Binh Dinh song sauce Mackerel charming, a sauce (mam nem) aromatic smell up, roll central, green onions, garlic ... This time, the Central candies such as wheel in, wheel of, wheel support, mirror candy, malt ... sold a lot. Cakes are made bigger, "special" than the usual selling price and increase slightly. Those who love to eat delicious Nha Trang can find certain items rolls, rolls, cakes tet, melon seeds interspersed Nha Trang in the central store this specialty. For added convenience, in the Maximark, Citimart, New Year which is also arranged separate stalls selling specialty original Nha Trang for customers to choose from.Lon buy special about Hoa, Khmer ...
Greek Duck (duck meat skin on, bone block negotiations end, spiced and dried, used for frying or steaming), way down the yellow canopy, wheel of the indispensable dishes on New Year's in the U.S. is presented selling more around Binh Tay Market, the shops on Nguyen Trai Street (District 5). The Food Market South almost always sell, but most concentrated and most affordable price is also at Binh Tay Market. From this wholesale market, jam from the South West Province, dried shrimp, Ca Mau, An Giang deep fried shrimp, rice paper, Cu Chi, Go Cong fresh sausage, bread Pia Soc ... will radiate everywhere.
In addition, those who want to change items in the three day New Year can come to Cambodia (374 Le Hong Phong Alley) to buy the traditional dishes of the Khmer, Cambodia. Dried fish specialties Lake inflated, dried snakehead fish, dried fish buffalo fish on dry, salted beef hormone in Saigon ... served with sprout where six non sale here will really special and are a favorite of many people instead of meat or fish.