restaurants.

This is the website with recommended restaurants in District 1 here. http://thejadedpalate.com/foodie-guide-to-vietnam-saigon/
In there, scroll down to see Pho 24. The picture of the restaurant
was where I set on the right.

Pho Bo

Beef noodle soup, that is. Went to this famous Pho-24 noodle house, a
franchise. This is a Vietnamese story. The owner started one store
and then just kept growing. Gutsy move. I wonder if that Phantom
parked outside the Sheraton yesterday was his car.

Anyway, I ventured into the first Pho-24 opened by him to eat. In
short, as Singaporean would have said "OK la". Nothing special. It
was a bit disappointing. The cost was 100,000 for a bowl of striplion
noodle soup and an ice coffee. I am still hungry as I am typing
this up. 100,000VND is about 5.71USD. I saw it on the bill as I
could have paid in USD, but why.

The ice coffee was not like the one in An Nan Gourmet Market. Though
the price was the same between the both places, 28,000 per cup. I
tried, I ate and I won't go back.

This is the official website of Pho-24: http://www.pho24.com.vn/homepage.php
. Don't get the pictures fooling you from believing you have a big
portion. Think half of what you see on the website and then some. OK
time to get some banger and mash across the street for my second
lunch. That was how little in that bowl of mind.

how

How is it possible having two bottles of sealed water but they each
have different level of water? These bottles are supplied by the
hotel for the SPG guests for room use. There were condensation inside
the bottle so I would imagine something is being evaporated from
inside. Though insignificant. How then we have two different level
from the same batch of water from factory?

Three explanations? 1) Evaporation was faster from one bottle to
another due to the different temperature between the two? 2) Manual
water filling station at factory? 3) Re-calibration of water filling
mechanism? Or 4) If we don't get sick from it, it's ok.

another view

This was taken this morning when I said by the window in An Nan
Gourmet Market for my cup of Vietnamese drip coffee with a croissant.

This corner is the other end of the street where Sheraton is located.
The bundles of wire hanging I believe they were telephone phones. I
saw workers with Telecomm uniforms just down the block working on a
bundle.

I took this while there were no traffic. Otherwise, just had massive
motor bikes and taxis.

AC pricing

Take a look at this pricing list from Air Canada. Routing is from HKG
to BOS. What's wrong with it? A faulty system or the airline is
employing a new tactic making people to pay more because Business
Class looks cheaper thereby boosting the airline's bottom line?
Ridiculous! How the heck can you have Tango fare more expensive than
the lowest Business Class fare? BTW the prices are in HKD.

old houses

We walked around District 1 and 3. Man, there were lots of
interesting residential architectures. This is one of them that I
could take (when we were dry). It was raining all day.

Today's photos are brought to you by my Nokia 5601 mobile phone's 3.2M
pixels camera.

lunch

After being beaten up with a whole body massage and a calf and foot
massage organized by the iron-wife, we head to Com Nieu Sai Gon for
dinner. It was almost 3pm by then. It suppose to have a website but
it doesn't work. This place is at 59 Ho Xuan Huong Street, District
3; tel: (84-8) 9302888.

We ordered 4 dishes. But man, they were big! Take a look at the
pictures below. The clay pot rice was most interesting. Once the
rice was cooked with a nice crust. The waiter broke the clay pot and
threw the rice across the room to the other waiter who promptly caught
it with a plate. Then we were served with a soya green onion sauce.
Yummy. The total with five big dishes and two drinks came to
281,000. About USD 16.50. No need to have dinner tonight.
Full...... Full full...

Inside restaurant