Girls Just Wanna Have Fun....or Food!! continued...
It was one of those days where we had the driver at our disposal and the day to ourselves..yeah yeah yeah! Working a 6-day week definitely makes you appreciate your weekend (technically only Sunday left!) so much more..so u ppl out there who work 5-day weeks, dont complain!!
Wat to do , wat to do?Well, eat and shop of course!
First stop - To satisfy our meat cravings! We stopped by a german restaurant to have their yummy sausages. The mash potatoes were fantastic! unfortunately I cannot remember the name of the resturant and forgot to take pics! sheesh....
Next - To walk off the food. We went to Lucky Plaza (no relation to the one in Singapore) for some retail therapy. Bought some reasonably priced Adidas and Nike dri-fit shirts..happy happy! We decided to move on to Saigon Square (a great place for even cheaper clothes, shoes and cheap DVDs!) to continue our shopping. After much haggling over prices and all, we emerged happy and satisfied with our shopping bags. Watz some shopping without bargaining eh?hehe..
Rest Time - Off to Gloria Jeans to pump some caffeine into our tired bodies and to satisfy our "sweet" craving! It is located at Dong Khoi street (their Orchard Road) where many shops cater to tourists. Stuff on this street are definitely higher priced...not for bargain hunters like us!
Here is a pic of me and Tata (my room mate) enjoying our ice cold coffee. Coffee will never be complete without cake!! hehehe...
Dinner - After a relaxing massage and facial, we are off to satisfy our kimchi craving at Mi Song (Korean restaurant). We were seated at this low table and had to sit cross legged. Pins and Needles...yikes! Food was great and we had our beef, kimchi soup, seafood pancake and bim bi bap..Yum yum !!
Last stop - To discover the night life in HCM City with one of our Vietnamese colleague. We came to this 4 level building called MGM Saigon. The locals call it a "Coffee Shop". First Glance -nice relaxing brightly lit cafe with a huge number of patrons.
When we entered, WOAH! A loud blast of pulsating music greets us and we saw this DJ spinning. Hmmm...weird...wat kind of place is this? The music was super loud..like gg to a disco... But everyone is sitting down, trying hard to chat amidst the noise. We were pretty amazed and getting half deaf. It was pretty impossible to even chat with each other. Our Viet colleague explained that it was a place to see and be seen. But I spotted some ppl with their kids. KIDS! What kind of concept is this place?A sit down cafe with deafening disco music? I just dun get it. One thing for sure...throngs of ppl are walking in and out and the place is 99% full at all times. It was a thriving business here..amazing!
We decided to ditch this cafe and went up to the disco which was upstairs (level 3 and 4). I was blown away by the even LOUDER music. It was extremely impossible to talk to each other now and we resorted to hand signals, lip reading and all. hahaha... Most of the ppl were sitting in groups, not talking, not dancing, lots of security personnel hovering about...hmmmm..weird weird weird....It soon grew extremely deafening and boring for us....we decided to end the night pretty quickly! hehe...a failed attempt at clubbing I must say.
Wat to do , wat to do?Well, eat and shop of course!
First stop - To satisfy our meat cravings! We stopped by a german restaurant to have their yummy sausages. The mash potatoes were fantastic! unfortunately I cannot remember the name of the resturant and forgot to take pics! sheesh....
Next - To walk off the food. We went to Lucky Plaza (no relation to the one in Singapore) for some retail therapy. Bought some reasonably priced Adidas and Nike dri-fit shirts..happy happy! We decided to move on to Saigon Square (a great place for even cheaper clothes, shoes and cheap DVDs!) to continue our shopping. After much haggling over prices and all, we emerged happy and satisfied with our shopping bags. Watz some shopping without bargaining eh?hehe..
Rest Time - Off to Gloria Jeans to pump some caffeine into our tired bodies and to satisfy our "sweet" craving! It is located at Dong Khoi street (their Orchard Road) where many shops cater to tourists. Stuff on this street are definitely higher priced...not for bargain hunters like us!
Here is a pic of me and Tata (my room mate) enjoying our ice cold coffee. Coffee will never be complete without cake!! hehehe...
Dinner - After a relaxing massage and facial, we are off to satisfy our kimchi craving at Mi Song (Korean restaurant). We were seated at this low table and had to sit cross legged. Pins and Needles...yikes! Food was great and we had our beef, kimchi soup, seafood pancake and bim bi bap..Yum yum !!
Last stop - To discover the night life in HCM City with one of our Vietnamese colleague. We came to this 4 level building called MGM Saigon. The locals call it a "Coffee Shop". First Glance -nice relaxing brightly lit cafe with a huge number of patrons.
When we entered, WOAH! A loud blast of pulsating music greets us and we saw this DJ spinning. Hmmm...weird...wat kind of place is this? The music was super loud..like gg to a disco... But everyone is sitting down, trying hard to chat amidst the noise. We were pretty amazed and getting half deaf. It was pretty impossible to even chat with each other. Our Viet colleague explained that it was a place to see and be seen. But I spotted some ppl with their kids. KIDS! What kind of concept is this place?A sit down cafe with deafening disco music? I just dun get it. One thing for sure...throngs of ppl are walking in and out and the place is 99% full at all times. It was a thriving business here..amazing!
We decided to ditch this cafe and went up to the disco which was upstairs (level 3 and 4). I was blown away by the even LOUDER music. It was extremely impossible to talk to each other now and we resorted to hand signals, lip reading and all. hahaha... Most of the ppl were sitting in groups, not talking, not dancing, lots of security personnel hovering about...hmmmm..weird weird weird....It soon grew extremely deafening and boring for us....we decided to end the night pretty quickly! hehe...a failed attempt at clubbing I must say.
Last thots :
It has been fun discovering HCM City, which is developing into a city like Bangkok. Food from most countries can be found here...Nepalese, Indian, Korean , Japanese, French, German, Spanish....and the best part is the restaurant owners are normally from the country of origin so the food tends to be more authentic. Of course, nothing beats the Vietnamese Pho (pronouced as Fer) and Spring Rolls that I LOVE! *salivating*....
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