Man, what a night. Got home, laid on my bed and before I knew it was morning. It was Tram and Nguyen’s birthday yesterday so we had a few drinks to celebrate at the Shadow bar on Dong Du Street in District 1.

Lots of good food and plenty of booze always makes for a good party so after a few hours I was pretty much totalled. So yeah, check out some of the photos from the night.

I headed out to meet up with Tracy today and decided to bring along the camera and take some random shots of Saigon since I haven’t taken many photos of the city for you all to see.

Anyways, we decided we’d have Japanese for lunch but couldn’t find a restaurant that had power since the power company dudes shut off power across a big chuck of district 1 to do some maintenance work. No power means no air conditioning and I just couldn’t have that. After walking around a bit we ended up at Sushi Express which thankfully had power.

After a hearty lunch of sashimi, sushi, jelly fish salad and teriyaki chicken we just did a bit of walking around and some shopping. Check the photo on the bottom right of the supermarket isle dedicated to instant noodles. That’s just so full on!

Tracy also makes an appearance in one of the photos. See if you can spot her.

For Bien and Le Thuy’s second last night here in Saigon we decided to spoil ourselves with a lavish buffet dinner at the Saigon Cafe, a buffet restaurant on the 1st floor of the Sheraton Saigon Hotel. Man, this place never disappoints! Everything was so good. Bien and Le Thuy couldn’t get enough of the oyster mornay which was totally delish. The mud crab was also totally amazing. Between the three of us I think we downed a total of four or five crabs. We should have taken more photos of all the other amazing dishes that we ate but we were all too involved with eating we didn’t want to make time.

Anyways, check out the photos. And we were only able to make time to take the dessert shots ‘cause we were all pretty full by then. Haha, we sure did stuff ourselves that night.

A whole week has past since Bien and Le Thuy landed at Tan Son Nhat airport in Ho Chi Minh city eagerly greeted by myself. Now after all the food and fun in the Vietnam sun they’ve jetted off to continue their holiday in Thailand.

Anyways, I thought I’d share a few photos from their visit. The photos were taken at the various restaurants where we ate, Dam Sen Amusement Park in district 11 and Shadow Bar in district 1.

Man, I can’t believe that I’ve been here just like a tad under 10 months and this is the 6th cold I’ve caught. I feel so utterly crap. I think living in Saigon, a city so densely populated makes it a heck of a lot easier to catch those nasties.

Yesterday I headed out to pick up some medicine from the local pharmacy. I just needed something to make me feel a little less crap. I even picked up some bun bao (pork buns) for lunch as well.

Anyways, I’ll leave you with some photos from around my area, Binh Thanh district. For those who are wondering, Binh Thanh’s about 10-15 minutes ride from the city center in district 1 by xe om (motorcycle taxi).