Thinking of crossing the border for a 3 week stay in South Vietnam at the end of the year.

What is better in Vietnam,than Thailand?

Cross the streets of Saigon at your peril!

1. Pho! It's good, but I worry they may use rat meat to make to broth instead of beef! serious!

Cross the streets of Saigon at your peril!

1. Pho! It's good, but I worry they may use rat meat to make to broth instead of beef! serious!

Don't worry, rat meat is too expensive to use as a substitute for beef, and besides it tastes a lot nicer so you'd notice the difference.

Wine and local beer

I think I will stay in Thailand !

A rusty old American tank ?

BK

Indian food. Some good restaurants there in the main tourist area of Pham Ngu Lao, and more over by the Sheraton Hotel.

If you're going to Ho Chi Minh City then visit the Chu Chi Tunnels, unless you are rotund then you won't fit in them.

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If you're going to Ho Chi Minh City then visit the Chu Chi Tunnels, unless you are rotund then you won't fit in them.

You'll have to be more descriptive than 'rotund', there is Isaan rotund and then there is Pattaya rotund

both district 1 in HCMC and the Hoa Kiem lake area in Hanoi are good for just wandering around...lotsa sidewalk activity...just stop at a bier hoa place where they serve cheap watery draft beer and hang out and watch the traffic just like a western colonial boulevardier in the old times...other than the pho noodles for breakfast I don't like vietnamese food much but there are plenty of places to eat western style or whatever...

strictly speaking there ain't much to do as a tourist in the big VN cities but it's nice to wander around and to use yer imagination; much better for walking than other big SEA cities...very easy to spend a relaxing long weekend on the cheap...also plenty of 4 star international hotels if that's what you're into...in HCMC I usually stay in the cheap hotels near the center on Thi Sach street (about USD35 per night, clean and comfortable with breakfast)...plenty of bars, restaurants and etc...and a supermarket near the opera house roundabout to get liquor, mixers and snacks to take back to the hotel...I'm missing the place already, sigh...

oh...and ye need a visa...ye can't just get on the airplane...the VN embassy is on Wireless Road in BKK up the street from the US embassy...stalinist VN and all that...but ye won't know it when ye get there...they like western tourists...

I've found the better VN food to be more esoteric than you would normally find in Thailand, goat, eel, snails, tofu and a VN style somtam made with pigs ear are my favourite dishes. Avoid VN style chicken unless you have strong teeth and jaws.

In HN & HCMC there is a chain of restaurants called Pacific Beer. They are very large beer hoi that serve very good local foods very cheap.

If you're going to Ho Chi Minh City then visit the Chu Chi Tunnels, unless you are rotund then you won't fit in them.

You'll have to be more descriptive than 'rotund', there is Isaan rotund and then there is Pattaya rotund

Isnt fat ba*tard more descriptive ? LOL