These brightly painted gates caught my eye on a recent visit to Go Vap district.
Thanks to my wonderful family in Australia, I now have Darrell Lea dark chocolate coated liquorice in my fridge (the one with the padlock!!). Darrell Lea's are [sob] in receivership, so I'll be enjoying this endangered species while I can. Posted from WordPress for Android
At least I had an attractive table decoration to admire while my cappuccino got cold (previous article).
To the uninitiated this may not look all that appetising, however, this is one of my favourite things to eat. It's xoi ga, or sticky rice and chicken. In this version the chicken is mixed with mushroom, tiny shrimps and a quail egg and encased in the sticky rice which in turn is wrapped in […]
...which oddly grows directly from the tree trunk. This one is in the grounds of the Cambodian Royal Palace, Phnom Penh.
These curtain or towel rod holders have more uses than I realised.
500 metres into Cambodia and the paved highway of Viet Nam is but a fond memory
This morning we were stuck in a traffic gridlock so dense we didn’t move for just over one hour. To people living in Sai Gon this type of occurrence is only too familiar, particularly when you happen to be on a main arterial road leading to a bottleneck such as a bridge or major intersection. […]
Whoever would have thought it, hot dogs as “Love” food. Taken in the foyer of Thang Long cinema, Cao Thang, District 3.
I take my hat off to these guys, I could not do this under any circumstance. IF (and that’s a very big IF) I managed to climb out over the wall onto the rickety bamboo ladder swinging free I wouldn’t be able to accomplish anything cos I would be clinging too hard