It was lunchtime again and I was wondering what I should eat. After a bit of pondering I decided to pull out a pack of instant noodles, an egg and some frozen squid I had in the freezer.

I cooked the instant noodles with all the condiments and drained the broth out into a separate bowl, threw the squid in a fry pan with a little garlic and a tad of soy sauce. When the squid was nearly cooked I put it aside and threw in the egg breaking it up as it cooked. I then added re-added the squid and threw in the cooked noodles. I tossed and mixed the whole lot together and there it was, my egg and squid fried noodles.

At around 6:15pm today I looked out of the window of my apartment and noticed the sky was a beautiful blue colour so I just had to grab the digital camera and capture the moment.

The blue hour, as I just discovered today, comes from a French expression which refers to the hour between the daylight and darkness. So yeah, that’s why I titled this post ‘Blue Hour In Saigon’ just in case you were wondering.

From time to time I end up going to bed just after sunrise after having a big night out on the town. An upside to this is I get to see some of the most spectacular sunrises from the 15th floor of my apartment in Binh Thanh district.

Check out the photo I took a couple of weeks ago with my Canon IXY 1000 digital camera. How cool is that!

Met up with Tracy for lunch today and afterwards she went back to work and I decided to go for a bit of a walk around and take a few shots of Saigon. This is such a diverse city with its mix of Western and Vietnamese influences making photographs all the more interesting.

Most of the photos were taken today but some where taken about a week ago.

I headed into the Pho 24 restaurant on Mac Thi Buoi Street in District 1 yesterday for a late lunch. I ordered combo 2 which included a bowl of pho noodle soup, beef balls and a fruit shake for 50,000 dong (USD$3.10). I chose the pho with the thinly sliced beef (pho tai) and the mango fruit shake.

The food was on the table within minutes and I wasted no time chowing it down. The pho was hot and tasty and the mango fruit shake was ice cold and full of flavour. So yeah, that was my quick and simple yet satisfying lunch at Pho 24.