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deptrailam
11-06-2014, 12:15 AM
that depends on how well is ur command of the language :)

Of cos u r free to test my knowledge. Any time any place, to ur convenience bro.

deptrailam
11-06-2014, 12:17 AM
Wah, mouth open so big, so how much????

I'm just offering & any reward is fine, u name it. I didn't ask for exorbitant amount so my mouth not open so big. At the end of the day, if u keen & if I know then it's a transaction which is win win for both.

jackbl
11-06-2014, 12:40 AM
I can teach u the language but how are u going to pay me for it?

Are you referring to me?

miumiu6464
11-06-2014, 02:32 AM
If were to pay anyone, I'd rather pay Jack "Black Label" (jackbl). Just by copying and pasting, his TV is much much powerful than most in this thread.

Hurricane88
11-06-2014, 10:47 AM
Of cos u r free to test my knowledge. Any time any place, to ur convenience bro.

haha...another newbie come here to boast about expert in Tieng Viet but nobody knew "who are you.."

I'm just offering & any reward is fine, u name it. I didn't ask for exorbitant amount so my mouth not open so big. At the end of the day, if u keen & if I know then it's a transaction which is win win for both.

..thought you just posted you want lamp Chop...we buy you lamb chop lol....:)

posted he wants to orguinised sex tour to Hanoi and HCM to watch world Cup...hahah..:)

http://www.sammyboysexforum.com/showthread.php?p=11197100&highlight=#post11197100
http://www.sammyboysexforum.com/showpost.php?p=11197076&postcount=516

jackbl
12-06-2014, 12:56 AM
If were to pay anyone, I'd rather pay Jack "Black Label" (jackbl). Just by copying and pasting, his TV is much much powerful than most in this thread.

I dunno u praise me or suan me :( Mine is copy & paste one..... how to be much much powerful????

jackbl
12-06-2014, 01:00 AM
that depends on how well is ur command of the language :)

In JC & GL, there are many with "good command" of vietnamese, how well are you going to pay them? :D :p

The asking price starts from $150 ....

Hurricane88
12-06-2014, 11:20 AM
In JC & GL, there are many with "good command" of vietnamese, how well are you going to pay them? :D :p

The asking price starts from $150 ....

do not need good command of tieng viet to bonk gals in JC/GL...:p:p

miumiu6464
12-06-2014, 02:55 PM
I dunno u praise me or suan me :( Mine is copy & paste one..... how to be much much powerful????

Troi oi.. if I suan you, why would I be willing to pay you?

jackbl
13-06-2014, 12:09 AM
In JC & GL, there are many with "good command" of vietnamese, how well are you going to pay them? :D :p

The asking price starts from $150 ....

do not need good command of tieng viet to bonk gals in JC/GL...:p:p

Troi oi... since when I say need TV to bonk gals??? You read properly.....

Marcoh
13-06-2014, 01:29 PM
Support! camping for more!!

deptrailam
13-06-2014, 05:21 PM
haha...another newbie come here to boast about expert in Tieng Viet but nobody knew "who are you.."



..thought you just posted you want lamp Chop...we buy you lamb chop lol....:)

posted he wants to orguinised sex tour to Hanoi and HCM to watch world Cup...hahah..:)

http://www.sammyboysexforum.com/showthread.php?p=11197100&highlight=#post11197100
http://www.sammyboysexforum.com/showpost.php?p=11197076&postcount=516

What makes u assume tt I m a newbie? And what makes u think tt my VNmese is lousy? U wana verify face to face with me?

jackbl
16-06-2014, 01:29 AM
Saying ‘yes’, ‘no’ the Vietnamese way
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The first word I learnt in Vietnam was ‘khong.’ You say it nearly the same as the huge gorilla’s last name, ‘King Kong.’ As any well-experienced traveler knows, knowing how to say ‘no’ is often much more important than ‘yes’! Later you get to learn more, like ‘ok’ instead of yes. ‘Khong mua,’ (moo-a) I don’t want to buy, came in particularly useful as I strolled around Hanoi in the early weeks of my first visit.

It seems to me that local people only say yes when they don’t know what to say. “Wow! You look great today!” “Yes…”

As I settled in Hoi An five years ago, I started to realize that ‘no’ or asking about possibilities takes on very surreal aspects. Somehow, the idea of suggesting something different to what a menu offered became a comedy routine.

“Can I have the baguette with butter and jam instead of a baguette with marmalade?”

Both items were on the menu.

“NO!” Huh? But I thought… “No!”, the poor flustered waitress starts shaking her hands in the air, a gesture often labeled ‘jazz hand’s’ by long suffering expats. I settled for the original order…Can’t be a difficult customer, what would people think?

What she meant is it’s not possible to change the menu orders. It is just not possible. Never mind that it would only take a few seconds to get some jam. This was no big thing and at the time, I thought it was quite funny. Yet the implications of that one little scene were to reverberate repeatedly in my dealing with the locals.

Still later, I came to understand that ‘yes’ may NOT mean ‘yes’, ‘no problem’ could be ‘big problem’ and ‘maybe’ means ‘I have no idea’. A personal favorite of mine is ‘You don’t worry about that’, meaning run as fast as you can for the front door because someone’s going to do something stupid…

It is all a question of how we usually do things. For example, my editor at this newspaper once pointed out to me, “Vietnamese don't say ‘I don't think I can do that’. We simply say ‘I cannot do that.’" Say something often enough in a particular way and people start to live and believe in that way. It starts to create a kind of inflexibility that becomes a way of life.

So why does it come about? One idea to understand is local people will go out of their way to avoid unpleasantness in dealing with people so they will say anything except “I won’t do that.” So rather than say that they hate you and would never serve you in a million years, they just say “no,” accompanied by jazz hands!

The second idea is decision making. There are few people with absolute, total power to make choices and say “it will be so.” I remember once asking the landlord when he’d get the water pump fixed. He stood there for nearly three minutes staring into the sky then said “Maybe tomorrow.” They came to fix the pump an hour later. So he had no idea when it could be done, said something to keep me happy, jumped on the phone, talked to the plumper, the plumping shop, his wife, his friend and probably his best friend before coming to a decision. I bet his wife settled the issue. Never argue with the boss!

One of the hardest lessons I have to teach hotel front office staff is the idea of suggesting alternatives when guests have requests or problems. “But teacher, we never do that.” It’s a fait accompli (it’s French), meaning it’s been previously decided. What’s interesting about this is that if people do try to find another way, it’s often easier than the original idea yet is rarely adopted as a new way of doing things because “that’s the way we’ve always done it.”

It’s a lesson in tourism that the Thai people learnt well and now make millions of dollars from.

For westerners, we might usually say, “I don’t think I can do that.” Meaning it’s not possible now, or it’s not possible for me but might be possible for someone else to do or finally, I could be persuaded to do that. I used to do this as a way of being polite and helpful to make a good impression with local businesses.

Still, as many expat knows, decisions agreed on before are changed at a moment’s notice. When schools and businesses tell me “Oh, we changed the timetable… “I just quietly say, “I can’t do that,” which works remarkably well. And we stick to the original plan. On the other hand, I cancel the deal much to the surprise of the locals!

So the next time the waitress says “no,” just re-phase your question and you might get that marmalade!

javhotus
16-06-2014, 10:08 AM
Deo hieu moi nguoi dang noi ve cai ǵ !

Hurricane88
16-06-2014, 10:13 AM
Deo hieu moi nguoi dang noi ve cai ǵ !

let me try...:)

fuck knows all people are talking about !

forgotoldnick
19-06-2014, 06:16 PM
Tieng viet lovers club hay tieng viet fighters club?:)

KangTuo
20-06-2014, 06:12 AM
Tieng viet lovers club hay tieng viet fighters club?:)

1 2 3 fight :)

ILovePorn2014
20-06-2014, 07:13 AM
Moi nguoi trong nay la Viet kieu hay nguoi nuoc ngoai thich noi tieng viet vay?

Hurricane88
20-06-2014, 07:23 AM
Moi nguoi trong nay la Viet kieu hay nguoi nuoc ngoai thich noi tieng viet vay?

ai biet zay...:)

ILovePorn2014
20-06-2014, 08:05 AM
ai biet zay...:)

Khong hieu?

Hurricane88
20-06-2014, 08:06 AM
Khong hieu?

hok hieu thi thui...:confused:

jackbl
20-06-2014, 08:19 AM
Moi nguoi trong nay la Viet kieu hay nguoi nuoc ngoai thich noi tieng viet vay?

I'm a Singaporean who wanted to learn vietnamese. How about you?

volcano
20-06-2014, 08:29 AM
Moi nguoi trong nay la Viet kieu hay nguoi nuoc ngoai thich noi tieng viet vay?


dont think u urself is a VK

ur command of tieng viet dont seems to be like a Vietnamese

FireShark
20-06-2014, 03:21 PM
hok hieu thi thui...:confused:

Bro H88

"hok"="khong..... All these acronym used by young vb really take time to learn. I had hard time learning when i was fooling around. sometimes need to ask them what they write.

jackbl
22-06-2014, 01:40 PM
Vietnamese litchi eyes Singaporean market to diversify outlets
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Vietnamese trade officials are taking steps to bring the country’s litchi to Singapore in a bid to diversify outlets for the produce, rather than only rely on the Chinese market, an official said Friday.

The Ministries of Industry and Trade and Agriculture and Rural Development have developed plans to find alternative markets for litchi and other Vietnamese-grown produce to reduce the dependence on China, Hoang Minh Tuan, head of the department that manages trade in border and mountainous areas, told Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper.

Tuan said Vietnamese litchi has recently been introduced in Singapore, paving the way for the produce to enter this market.

“Out trade officials are working hard with Singaporean partners, and Vietnamese litchi has been on display at fruit exhibitions and fairs there,” he said.

Tuan noted that these initial steps will not produce good results immediately, but gradually.

“What’s important is that businesses have begun seeking new markets when their traditional ones get stuck,” he commented.

Finding alternative markets for litchi has emerged as an urgent issue as farmers in the northern provinces of Bac Giang and Hai Duong are struggling to find outlets for their abundant crops.

China used to import most of the produce from these localities, which are the country’s largest litchi-growing areas, but exports have slowed down since early May, when China placed its illegal oil rig within Vietnamese waters.

Vietnam is also exerting efforts to have its produce exported into new markets such as Laos, Cambodia, Malaysia, Indonesia, and India.

Tuan said his officials have also worked with traders in the Chinese localities that border Vietnam to encourage them to resume imports of Vietnamese litchis.

“They remained hesitant at first, but after realizing that Vietnam still creates a condition for them to buy litchis, some traders have resumed transactions,” he said.

jackbl
22-06-2014, 01:51 PM
"hok"="khong..... All these acronym used by young vb really take time to learn.

many cheongsters learnt those "bad words" and they are expert in it in short time :D :p

jackbl
23-06-2014, 01:08 AM
Another way of making a living in vn:

In photos: Gold hunting on Vietnam beach
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It is not uncommon to see people hunting for lost gold and diamond jewelry that beach-goers have dropped in Vung Tau, a popular tourist city in southern Vietnam.

The jewelry hunters use a metal detector to search for lost items buried under wet beach sand stretching dozens of kilometers at Bai Sau (Back Beach) in the city where many tourists come to bathe.

Tran Van Dung, 37, who has been in the business for ten years, said his job depends on luck. Dung said sometimes he can pocket VND7-8 million ((US$329-375) per month but there were times when he earned a mere hundreds of dong. (VND100,000 = $4.7)

The man added he found up to 0.5 tael of gold jewelry about seven years ago and it is also the largest amount of gold he has scavenged so far. (A tael = 37.5 gram)

Besides Bai Sau, Dung and other hunters go to other beaches in Vung Tau such as Ho Tram and Ho Coc in Xuyen Moc District and Long Hai in Long Dien District to make their living.

Former fisherman Vo Quoc Trung, 39, said the majority of lost items and stuff they have detected are silver and stainless steel jewelry since “beach-goers often take off gold necklaces and rings before bathing in the sea”.

miumiu6464
23-06-2014, 09:15 AM
Biet chet lien = ??

Anyone can tell?

Hurricane88
23-06-2014, 09:32 AM
Biet chet lien = ??

Anyone can tell?

here...just a little search will get you answer instead of asking...:)

http://www.sammyboysexforum.com/showpost.php?p=9207153&postcount=12912

jackbl
24-06-2014, 02:08 AM
Biet chet lien = ??

Anyone can tell?

Are u asking or testing ppl here? :D

cooglife
26-06-2014, 01:57 AM
More please

jackbl
01-07-2014, 01:26 AM
Beware of your helmet
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According to a governmental decree that was issued last year, drivers of motorbikes, electric motorcycles, and electric bicycles who wear their helmets incorrectly will be fined up to VND200,000 ($9.4) as of July 1, 2014.

According to Article 6.3 of Decree 171/ND-CP of November 13, 2013, a fine of VND100,000-200,000 will be applied to those driving or riding motorbikes without crash helmets or with helmets worn incorrectly.

Wearing one’s helmet “incorrectly” includes: wearing a helmet without fastening the chinstrap, letting the fastened strap hang loose from the chin, and wearing the helmet in such a way that it can be taken off one’s head easily by pulling up the front or the back of the helmet.

In speaking with Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper about the new rule,
Senior Lieutenant Colonel Nguyen Hoang Diep, deputy head of Ho Chi Minh City Police’s railway and road police department, said the city police will strictly punish all violators of the regulation.

The official also said this new rule is not applied to children under six years old, people who are carried on bikes to health facilities for emergency aid, and law offenders who are being escorted on bikes.

In addition to a pecuniary fine, violators under 16 years old (but at least 6 or over) will also have their vehicles impounded for seven days, and those who are students will be turned in to their school’s management, he added.

jackbl
12-07-2014, 01:19 PM
The door into summer
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Every so often I get asked by locals, “Stivi, why do you stay in Vietnam?” It happens so frequently that I wonder if they just want to hear, “Because it’s great!” Well, we do know and love our little slice of Vietnamese heaven, don’t we?

If you were to browse Facebook, you would get the impression there’s an amazing number of expats living here in Vietnam who absolutely hate the place. Every petty bad habit of the Vietnamese culture is nit-picked, argued about, insulted, joked about, examined and abused. Yet there isn’t a conga line of expats heading for the airport shouting, “So long! And thanks for the beer!”

The culture is exhausting. Mad traffic, no sense of time, lousy table service, constant headaches as plans are changed, forgotten and cancelled and the classic, ever prevalent wedding-karaoke-death in the family-shop opening music to contend with. You could also add to the list; blackouts, breakdowns, and bad timing!

So why do we stay? Surely, life in another tropical country would be just as good if not better and probably less demented. Certainly, life without loudspeaker awake-ups would add years to our lives…

I can’t speak for all expats. Yes, I can hear the sniggers. Some of us come to do great things. Others come to help. Some for the adventure. A few for the women. So what’s my excuse?

My little story goes back to when I was a teenager. Pull up a chair and make sure the popcorn and beer are ready!

Angry, confused, lost, often lonely, I was quite an introverted lad. I hated growing up in Canberra, the capital of Australia, (a lot of people think it’s Sydney!) – cold, dreary, boring and uninspiring. I was a great reader of science fiction and one day I read a book called ‘The Door into Summer’ by Robert A. Heinlein. In the book, the hero’s cat, ‘Pete,’ is forever checking every door to the outside world in search of a summer the cat couldn’t find because the outside world was so terrible and destroyed, always looking for a place to lie in the grass under a cool tree and snooze. Cat heaven.

That story has stayed with me for nearly forty years as I constantly searched the world around me for a place to feel truly comfortable and relaxed. I never found it in a soul killing Australian office or the relentless routine of a South Korean ‘Hongwon’ (school) and surprisingly not in the deep, quiet western forests of cold Japan. Much as I loved each adventure and each love that went with it, something compelled me to move on, to keep looking… Where was my door into summer?

A surprise invitation to check three beaches – Malaysia’s Langkawi Island, Thailand’s Koi Samui Island and Vietnam’s Eastern beaches – was the beginning of yet another adventure in the northern spring of 2006. As I headed into the last third of the journey, I was still somehow disappointed. Langkawi’s sunsets are a photographer’s dream. Koi Samui was more fun – more a young man’s paradise of sun, sand and sex – not quite what I was looking for. Summer to me is relaxing and forgetting the stresses of ordinary life, not running around being busy.

On a small bridge on a bright summer early afternoon near Cua Dai beach in Hoi An Ancient Town in central Vietnam, I found that door. Staring northward across the palm trees, pale mountains in the distance, the glistening river snaking its way down across the coastal plain with green, thick, ripe rice fields on one side and shaded homes in many pale colors on the other. This was it, the one true place.

It simply felt right, the first time in nearly twenty years that I actually wanted to be in a particular location. It was a strange feeling flying back to Australia knowing that I didn’t really to stay in Oz anymore.

My family thought I was mad but supported me staunchly throughout these last six years here and it was not without failure either. A failed English school project that cost my family and me a lot of money. Dubious promises and back flips on other projects, not to mention the never-ending issues of domestic maintenance!

Many expats had similar experiences – falling in love with Vietnam without ever really being able to put their finger on what it was about the place that they liked so much. Quite a few met future wives by accident here. Others settled down simply to stop moving around the world.

Whatever the reason was, or is – we all came looking for a door into summer. And boy, Vietnam has provided it! So stick around for a while if you are not sure – you might be surprised by what Vietnam can offer…

Have you found your door yet?

casannova03
13-07-2014, 01:38 PM
haha...another newbie come here to boast about expert in Tieng Viet but nobody knew "who are you.."





Wah nowadays have organised paid lessons here ah???!! ;)

Can join in??!!:p:p

Hurricane88
13-07-2014, 01:44 PM
Wah nowadays have organised paid lessons here ah???!! ;)

Can join in??!!:p:p

dun know what you meant...nobody paid anything to anyone...certainly nobody pay me money...:)

jackbl
14-07-2014, 12:11 AM
Wah nowadays have organised paid lessons here ah???!! ;) Can join in??!!:p:p

Are you coming in to teach??? Can it be free???

paolohen
15-07-2014, 02:39 AM
Hi all,

My vb sent me all these sms after I decided to put her aeroplane after making me wait for her for 45 mins. I don't understand a shit, can someone help to translate pls:

1. Co the cho doi 1 chuc nua duoc khong

2. Gio ban dang o dau toi se lai

3. Ban khong muon gap toi

4. Ban co the ngu voi toi


Thanks.

KangTuo
15-07-2014, 09:44 AM
Hi all,

My vb sent me all these sms after I decided to put her aeroplane after making me wait for her for 45 mins. I don't understand a shit, can someone help to translate pls:

1. Co the cho doi 1 chuc nua duoc khong

2. Gio ban dang o dau toi se lai

3. Ban khong muon gap toi

4. Ban co the ngu voi toi


Thanks.

1. can wait awhile or not

2. now where are you i will come

3. you dont want meet me

4. you can sleep with me

Hurricane88
15-07-2014, 09:51 AM
1. Co the cho doi 1 chuc nua duoc khong

2. Gio ban dang o dau toi se lai

3. Ban khong muon gap toi

4. Ban co the ngu voi toi


IMHO...this is what I translated..

1. can you wait a bit longer...I am bonking another man now..

2. I just finished bonking...where are you now...is your turn

3. you dun want to meet me ha...no problem other man want la...

4. you can bonk me many times...but must pay $$$

Seletar
15-07-2014, 10:44 AM
Hi all,

My vb sent me all these sms after I decided to put her aeroplane after making me wait for her for 45 mins.

Deal with vb must be patient, 45 mins is not long. I ever waited 2 days 2 nights at Cao Dai, but she did not turn up. :mad:

paolohen
15-07-2014, 10:47 AM
Deal with vb must be patient, 45 mins is not long. I ever waited 2 days 2 nights at Cao Dai, but she did not turn up. :mad:

Haha.. you so 吃情

paolohen
15-07-2014, 10:48 AM
IMHO...this is what I translated..

1. can you wait a bit longer...I am bonking another man now..

2. I just finished bonking...where are you now...is your turn

3. you dun want to meet me ha...no problem other man want la...

4. you can bonk me many times...but must pay $$$

Hahaha.. Nice one. Quite true. They r all here to tan jiak

Hurricane88
15-07-2014, 10:55 AM
Haha.. you so 吃情

haha...is not he 吃情...is he dun know how to deal with VB...:p

to me when a VB late by 30 mins...I no longer wait...usually my waiting place is where I usually go and so not really just waiting for her...I have fun and do what I want to do while see if VB turn up...many times I dun wait just sleep if I am waiting in my room...haha...hope you learn something...:)

oh btw...when VB makes me wait then I let VB wait 2x longer...haha...:)

Seletar
15-07-2014, 11:17 AM
haha.. You so 吃情

人 算 不 如 天 算 :(

paolohen
15-07-2014, 11:20 AM
haha...is not he 吃情...is he dun know how to deal with VB...:p

to me when a VB late by 30 mins...I no longer wait...usually my waiting place is where I usually go and so not really just waiting for her...I have fun and do what I want to do while see if VB turn up...many times I dun wait just sleep if I am waiting in my room...haha...hope you learn something...:)

oh btw...when VB makes me wait then I let VB wait 2x longer...haha...:)

Haha.. Yes. You the master. I will learn to be more 坏!

FireShark
15-07-2014, 02:38 PM
IMHO...this is what I translated..

1. can you wait a bit longer...I am bonking another man now..

2. I just finished bonking...where are you now...is your turn

3. you dun want to meet me ha...no problem other man want la...

4. you can bonk me many times...but must pay $$$

Hahaha, this sound so interesting after another translation. The last one should be you can bonk me many times.... but how much are you going to pay me????

jackbl
16-07-2014, 01:02 AM
Deal with vb must be patient, 45 mins is not long. I ever waited 2 days 2 nights at Cao Dai, but she did not turn up. :mad:

Cao Dai is not a place. It is a religion...... Are u referring to Hoa Thanh?????

jackbl
16-07-2014, 01:03 AM
1. Co the cho doi 1 chuc nua duoc khong

Wrong spelling... it is Chut

mutantchicken
16-07-2014, 06:17 AM
IMHO...this is what I translated..

1. can you wait a bit longer...I am bonking another man now..

2. I just finished bonking...where are you now...is your turn

3. you dun want to meet me ha...no problem other man want la...

4. you can bonk me many times...but must pay $$$

forgot the one she didnt write...i just cim for my last customer u want to dfk me?

KangTuo
16-07-2014, 09:21 AM
Wrong spelling... it is Chut

I temember once in jazzy51, i debate with a vb about spelling 'chut and chuc'
In the end, i told her nevermind... We chut chut chut (kiss kiss kiss) can already. :)

callim2
16-07-2014, 10:02 AM
Hi
I will be traveling to HCM next month
any bros know fishing places that recommend to me?

Tks in advance :)

Seletar
16-07-2014, 10:31 AM
Cao Dai is not a place. It is a religion...... Are u referring to Hoa Thanh?????

Cao Dai temple at Hoa Thanh district. :)

volcano
16-07-2014, 02:55 PM
Hi
I will be traveling to HCM next month
any bros know fishing places that recommend to me?

Tks in advance :)


errrrr....did u see the title of the thread...:eek:

volcano
16-07-2014, 03:04 PM
Cao Dai temple at Hoa Thanh district. :)


u go all the way to Tay Ninh and wait for a girl....:eek:

Seletar
16-07-2014, 04:29 PM
u go all the way to Tay Ninh and wait for a girl....:eek:

That was 2 years ago, she fly me aeroplane but in between have some bbbj and disco. :p:)

jackbl
17-07-2014, 12:13 AM
I temember once in jazzy51, i debate with a vb about spelling 'chut and chuc'

Wasting your time la .... even though you are foreigner, your spelling (in sms) could be better than some vb :D :p

KangTuo
17-07-2014, 12:19 AM
Wasting your time la .... even though you are foreigner, your spelling (in sms) could be better than some vb :D :p

I know i was wasting my time then... That why just chut chut chut (kiss) her better :)

KangTuo
17-07-2014, 12:22 AM
That was 2 years ago, she fly me aeroplane but in between have some bbbj and disco. :p:)

Fly your aeroplane (hj), in between have some bbbj and disco (bonk)... :p
SOP in making love mah :p

jackbl
17-07-2014, 12:26 AM
That was 2 years ago, she fly me aeroplane but in between have some bbbj and disco. :p:)

U go all the way to have bbbj and disco??? :D

Seletar
18-07-2014, 01:24 AM
U go all the way to have bbbj and disco??? :D

bi lam sao ? Sao ko the ?

FireShark
18-07-2014, 11:11 AM
U go all the way to have bbbj and disco??? :D

No Choice, he got to release it. If not, he might die of "Xiao cheong nao"

paolohen
18-07-2014, 06:18 PM
Dua nehneh is call you ber right? How to spell in TV? Hehe

deptrai4u
19-07-2014, 07:48 AM
Dua nehneh is call you ber right? How to spell in TV? Hehe

Its actually VU BER.....

jackbl
20-07-2014, 11:36 AM
vú bự ....

paolohen
20-07-2014, 02:37 PM
Thank you bro!

paolohen
21-07-2014, 08:37 AM
when I ask my vb this:Cong viec the nao?

She replied this:Không co tien ve ox cho e tien ve nha

She is asking for money izzit???

I immediately say I go sleep, Good night. No reply from here after that. Haha..

Hurricane88
21-07-2014, 09:27 AM
She replied this:Không co tien ve ox cho e tien ve nha


Không co tien ve ox cho e tien ve nha
- dun have money return hubby give me money to return home

another translation meaning...

dun have money to give me dun waste time to message me I very busy bonking and doing big business with many hubbies...ahaha...:)

paolohen
21-07-2014, 10:20 AM
Hahaha... Nice one.

Seletar
25-07-2014, 10:33 AM
I temember once in jazzy51, i debate with a vb about spelling 'chut and chuc'
In the end, i told her nevermind... We chut chut chut (kiss kiss kiss) can already. :)

Yesterday received a text from a vb " A cho e chuc tien lam sinh nhat duoc ko a ?
Another text " Chuc nua nha ox bx dau bung di lay thuoc Uong. "

The word " chuc" I don't think is wrong spelling, they always use this word. :confused:

FireShark
25-07-2014, 11:02 AM
Yesterday received a text from a vb " A cho e chuc tien lam sinh nhat duoc ko a ?
Another text " Chuc nua nha ox bx dau bung di lay thuoc Uong. "

The word " chuc" I don't think is wrong spelling, they always use this word. :confused:

Chuc= wish
Chut= little/a bit

L69H69OKT
25-07-2014, 01:51 PM
Yesterday received a text from a vb " A cho e chuc tien lam sinh nhat duoc ko a ?
Another text " Chuc nua nha ox bx dau bung di lay thuoc Uong. "

The word " chuc" I don't think is wrong spelling, they always use this word. :confused:

You got give her a orgasmic birthday bonk?

KangTuo
25-07-2014, 03:13 PM
Yesterday received a text from a vb " A cho e chuc tien lam sinh nhat duoc ko a ?
Another text " Chuc nua nha ox bx dau bung di lay thuoc Uong. "

The word " chuc" I don't think is wrong spelling, they always use this word. :confused:

You got give her a orgasmic birthday bonk?

Tell her dont need medicine. U will bonk her to 通 the stomach

Seletar
25-07-2014, 04:04 PM
Tell her dont need medicine. U will bonk her to 通 the stomach

Bro, I ask you chuc & chut, you tell me 通 the stomach. em ky qua !!:(

You want piak piak piak or chut chut chut ??

KangTuo
25-07-2014, 06:10 PM
Bro, I ask you chuc & chut, you tell me 通 the stomach. em ky qua !!:(

You want piak piak piak or chut chut chut ??

Best combi is chut piak chut piak chut piak

jackbl
25-07-2014, 11:49 PM
U will bonk her to 通 the stomach

From the back..... "tong" the channel to bowel :D

KangTuo
26-07-2014, 01:12 AM
From the back..... "tong" the channel to bowel :D

didnt know you into this as well :)

damong777
26-07-2014, 03:47 PM
Không co tien ve ox cho e tien ve nha
- dun have money return hubby give me money to return home

another translation meaning...

dun have money to give me dun waste time to message me I very busy bonking and doing big business with many hubbies...ahaha...:)

H88: love your translations. Realistic for WL terms.

henabi
29-07-2014, 11:35 PM
I am keeping contact with a vb I know from K2. From 3 months ago...

Nv once ask me for money...sending photos to each other daily. She also send me photos of her family and her younger sisters...
Everyday talk about what we do everyday and when I will visit vietnam? (Because I have business dealings in vietnam too)

Worth keeping? Shes only 21.

jackbl
30-07-2014, 01:29 AM
No beer after 10pm in Vietnam?
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The Ministry of Health has suggested banning the sales of beer and alcohol after 10:00pm in the draft law on the prevention of ill effects of alcoholic beverages in the community.

It suggests banning alcohol sale between 10:00pm and 6:00am in the following morning.

However, ideas have claimed that it is infeasible to carry out the ban.

Nguyen Huy Quang, head of the legal department of the Ministry of Health, admitted that it is acceptable to establish a limit but authorities are studying measures to make the ban more effective if it is approved by the law-making National Assembly.

Last year, the traffic police department in Ho Chi Minh City proposed to ban the sale of beer after 10:00pm. However, it was not supported then by the city’s authorities.

Vietnam has a heavy consumption of beer and alcohol and the amount has been increasing year after year.

In 2013, Vietnam consumed over three billion liters of beer, ranking third in Asia after Japan and China. 68,000 liters of wine were drunk in the year.

In 2012, the nation consumed 2.8 billion liters of beer and 63,000 liters of wine.

90 percent of Vietnamese adults drink beer and alcohol and every one in four drinkers consumes it at a harmful level which is from six glasses of beer a day or more, according to Quang.

KangTuo
30-07-2014, 10:03 AM
I am keeping contact with a vb I know from K2. From 3 months ago...

Nv once ask me for money...sending photos to each other daily. She also send me photos of her family and her younger sisters...
Everyday talk about what we do everyday and when I will visit vietnam? (Because I have business dealings in vietnam too)

Worth keeping? Shes only 21.

Worth keeping... Just do it :)

Seletar
30-07-2014, 10:50 AM
I am keeping contact with a vb I know from K2. From 3 months ago...

Nv once ask me for money...sending photos to each other daily. She also send me photos of her family and her younger sisters...
Everyday talk about what we do everyday and when I will visit vietnam? (Because I have business dealings in vietnam too)

Worth keeping? Shes only 21.

" Nv once ask me for money" is a good vb."
Worth keeping

Hurricane88
30-07-2014, 10:52 AM
I am keeping contact with a vb I know from K2. From 3 months ago...

Nv once ask me for money...sending photos to each other daily. She also send me photos of her family and her younger sisters...
Everyday talk about what we do everyday and when I will visit vietnam? (Because I have business dealings in vietnam too)

Worth keeping? Shes only 21.

yes..keep her...tell us how long she will be with you...:)

henabi
30-07-2014, 11:28 PM
Ok. Thanks for the encouragement.

We are planning to spend a weekend 3d2n getaway to da nang next month. See how things goes.

henabi
30-07-2014, 11:30 PM
Double post. So sorry.

KangTuo
30-07-2014, 11:42 PM
Ok. Thanks for the encouragement.

We are planning to spend a weekend 3d2n getaway to da nang next month. See how things goes.

After trip, be prepared for a change...

jackbl
31-07-2014, 12:55 AM
After trip, be prepared for a change...

Yeah! He will want to start learning vietnamese :D

jackbl
31-07-2014, 12:56 AM
We are planning to spend a weekend 3d2n getaway to da nang next month.

Too short for holiday, but enough to bonk inside ks :D :p

KangTuo
31-07-2014, 08:01 AM
Yeah! He will want to start learning vietnamese :D

No... The change i talking about is the change in the vb.

KangTuo
31-07-2014, 08:03 AM
Too short for holiday, but enough to bonk inside ks :D :p

Bonk in hotel, stay in hcmc better. Go da nang need waste time to travel and will be tired..

Hurricane88
31-07-2014, 10:35 AM
Ok. Thanks for the encouragement.

We are planning to spend a weekend 3d2n getaway to da nang next month. See how things goes.

3d2n you want to go danang...haha...waste of precious time...Danang be prepared to spend more money on transport....both air and taxi...:)

jackbl
01-08-2014, 12:45 AM
Bonk in hotel, stay in hcmc better. Go da nang need waste time to travel and will be tired..

Maybe his gal previously from Danang so his gal jio him to go there :D :p

jackbl
07-08-2014, 12:31 AM
It’s trendy to smoke shisha in Vietnam
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VietNamNet Bridge - Shisha appeared for the first time in a bar in downtown Saigon more than four years ago. Since then, smoking shisha has become trendy among young people in big cities like Hanoi and HCM City.

Shisha is a glass-bottomed water pipe in which fruit-flavored tobacco is covered with foil and roasted with charcoal. The tobacco smoke passes through a water chamber and is inhaled deeply and slowly.

Shisha smoking is now very popular among young people, who want to prove themselves as connoisseurs. However, they don’t know that they have been cheated by service providers.

They have to pay from VND150,000 to VND500,000 ($7-$25) for a shisha hookah, while a 50 gram shisha flavor box can be used for four hookahs for two to three smokers. It is priced at only VND35,000-VND40,000 ($1.3-$2).

Most shisha shops directly import shisha flavors from the United Arab Emirates, the birthplace of shisha. But according to several shisha wholesalers, shisha in Vietnam is mainly imported from China.

Mr. Nguyen, a shisha trader, said: "There are three major shisha brands including Al Fakher, Starbuzz and Soex. In Vietnam, shisha is imported from Malaysia and China. The one from Malaysia has consistent quality but the prices are high, so the most popular products come from China". Nguyen said shisha from China is cheap, but the quality is questionable.

He said that several years ago, a Saigon man named H was the only one who imported and distributed in Vietnam, so the quality of shisha was consistent. However, since many peopje have jumped into this lucrative market, it is difficult to identify the quality of shisha.

Nguyen said that another source of supply of shisha is stewards. However, only high-income smokers can approach this source. “High-income shisha smokers are the people who are willing to play several thousands of US dollars to buy a hookah. These people are ready to pay hundreds of US dollars for smoking shisha in several hours," he added.

On the official website of Al Fakher shisha producer, based in the UAE, Vietnam and China are named on the list of countries using its products. But they are not official importers.

According to Vietnam’s regulations, health warnings must be printed on cigarette packages while shisha boxes have no warning.

At shisha smoking shops, many smokers use soft drinks like Coca-Cola, Sting and even alcohol as additives when smoking shisha.

According to research carried out by the World Health Organization (WHO), the volume of smoke inhaled in an hour-long shisha session is estimated to be the equivalent of smoking between 100 and 200 cigarettes.

HCM City last year proposed to the Ministry of Health to add shisha to the list of goods and services banned from business in order to protect people's health.

Thuong Ha

jackbl
15-08-2014, 02:20 AM
Mekong Delta brides return alone, with 'foreign' kids
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A local newspaper has closely followed the exodus of Mekong Delta women who opted out of rural poverty by marrying abroad.
The first wave of this coverage focused on stories of women who suffered abuse from families in Taiwan and South Korea that expected them to renounce their economic independence and commit full-time to caring for aging in-laws and children as Confucian wives.
More recently, Tuoi Tre reported on the sad return of Mekong Delta divorcees who struggle with the poverty they fled and laws that treat their children as foreigners.
A tourist in the motherland
To Thi My Xuan grew up in Vi Thang, a small town South-West of Can Tho in the Mekong Delta Province of Hau Giang.
Around 10 years ago, Xuan moved to South Korea to marry. She gave birth to her daughter, Hye In three years later.
Xuan's marriage to her Korean husband failed, prompting her to take her daughter back to Vietnam.
Seven years have passed and Xuan has yet to receive documentary confirmation of her divorce. She claimed her South Korean husband is totally unreachable by telephone.
On paper, she remains a married woman with a foreigner who must routinely apply for a tourist visa to stay.
Nguyen Van Kinh, deputy chairman of Vi Thang Commune People’s Committee, said Hye In will not be exempt from school tuition fees like other children in the commune when she attends the 1st grade class.
Primary students in Vietnam do not have to pay school tuition fees if their families are deemed "poor households."
But, though poor, Xuan is also unable to obtain subsidized health insurance or vaccinations for her child, he added.
Hye In is not alone.
Vi Thang Commune, where the mother and daughter reside, is home to 11 children who were brought home from South Korea, China and Taiwan by their Vietnamese mothers.
The children aren't considered Vietnamese citizens and aren't protected by Vietnamese law.
As such, they do not enjoy educational and healthcare subsidies like their peers.
Approximately 200 such children reside in Can Tho, a centrally-governed city in the Mekong Delta.
The municipal authorities say they've issued regulations to facilitate conditions for the children to go to school and receive healthcare.
However, the regulations stipulate that the children will have to wait until they turn 18 to obtain citizenship.
“It's too long for them to wait, given the fact they are children without fathers and their mothers are poor,” said Nguyen Thi Phuong Thu, an official of the Can Tho City Department of Justice.
Their mothers face financial and romantic difficulties.
In addition to all the added costs of raising their children, many remain married on paper. Faced with a desperate situation, some have opted to leave their children with relatives and head to big cities in search of work.
Rough landing
Tran Thi Hong Viet, a former spokesman for the Ho Chi Minh City People’s Court, said Vietnamese women usually return home without papers.
Some can't even recall their foreign husbands’ addresses.
“How can we [the court] ask other countries to help obtain a divorce if they don’t have their husbands' addresses?” she asked.
As an increasing number of Vietnamese women marrying Chinese men, Viet anticipates yet another wave of returning mothers and their kids, which could create educational, health care and social welfare problems.
According to the Vinh Long Province People’s Court, since early this year, three local women have sought divorces from Chinese nationals and all three failed to produce marriage certificates or any other supporting documents.
Tuoi Tre reporters tracked down a number of Vietnamese women who said they married Chinese husbands in remote villages; nearly all claimed they'd had their passports, marriage certificates and children's birth certificates seized to prevent them from fleeing their abusive spouses.
Many more remain in China, they claimed, because they believe their husbands' control of their legal documents precludes them from having any legal recourse.
Others fled their husbands’ houses, but were forced to return after they failed to find their way out of China. Those women were humiliated and tortured by the husbands even more than before.

Those who managed to escape back to Vietnam are still considered married women.
'Doomed to be miserable'
Lawyer Ha Hai of the Ho Chi Minh City Bar Association said that any reasonable person would pity these women.
But when they return to Vietnam, they find no mercy from stringent procedural rules that prevent them from divorcing or remarrying or raising their children as anything other than tourists.
“It's as if these women are doomed to be miserable whether at home or abroad,” Hai said.
Local law enforcement authorities are partly to blame, Hai said, for failing to control mixed marriages, leading to an exodus of brides bound for foreign countries without adequate papers, preparation or legal protections.
Son Nu Pha Ca, a judge with Vinh Long Province People’s Court, said some newly-issued regulations aimed to tighten the control on mixed marriages are very necessary, but they won't ensure that these virtual mail order brides won't wind up miserable.
“We need regulations to help the women and their mixed-blood children find a safe haven here in Vietnam,” she said.

KohOnly21
15-08-2014, 02:54 PM
I am keeping contact with a vb I know from K2. From 3 months ago...

Nv once ask me for money...sending photos to each other daily. She also send me photos of her family and her younger sisters...
Everyday talk about what we do everyday and when I will visit vietnam? (Because I have business dealings in vietnam too)

Worth keeping? Shes only 21.

Sometimes we like to think that when a wl never once ask us for money is considered a good find or good catch..

How about we look at it from another angle, i believe in SBF there are many gentleman here that do not wait for the wl to ask but will give automatically.. Some might do this to impress, some really just being a gentleman.

That's not all. When we give without the wl asking, some of us might tend to give them more because wanting to keep or just because they are good girl so reward them by giving extras..

1 of the reason that the wl never once need to ask us for money maybe also due to the amount we "automatically" give is already alot for them?

However, there are also genuine nice girls out there that really likes you and the reason that they don't ask you for money is because they do not want to feel that it is a transaction.

Peace not targeting anyone, just sharing.. :D

jackbl
18-08-2014, 12:26 AM
Focus should be on reducing prostitution's harm to society
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VietNamNet Bridge – Chung A, former vice chairman of the Viet Nam National Committee for Prevention and Control of AIDS, told newspaper Nong thon Ngay nay (Countryside Today) that prostitution needs to be under control.

Why do you think that Ha Noi's decision to introduce the measure to "out" people paying for sex will make prostitution a bigger issue for society?

At present, I'm conducting a survey on the sex trade in several different localities. Ultimately I want to use the findings to write a proposal with measures to reduce the negative impacts of prostitution on society, such as the spread of sexually-transmitted diseases and HIV/AIDS.

Through my work, I can say that prostitution is ubiquitous in Viet Nam, be it in the cities or in remote rural areas.

Karaoke houses, rest-houses and hair salons have become venues for prostitutes to operate. Others have become more brazen, approaching people in the streets and asking if they want some "happy time" with attractive girls.

What are your thoughts on the measures introduced by the Ha Noi Anti-Social Vices Department to publicise the names of people paying for sex or force them to do community service activities, such as street sweeping?

Ha Noi and other cities have previously introduced strict measures to reduce the number of prostitutes, including sending them to rehabilitation centres to educate them and equip them with job skills so that they can become conscientious citizens after they're released.

But, we have realised that such measures don't work. When we have a problem, we should attempt to deal with it within itself. Trying to solve it by changing too many things will only create new problems. Now we want to list the names, ages and addresses of all the men caught in the act, so to speak, but I don't think it will work.

Men wanting to have sex outside their marriages still do it, but in a sneaky way. But more seriously, is that they are having unsafe sex and heightening the risk of spreading harmful diseases.

So far fines have failed to deter illegal prostitution. In your view, how can we solve this problem?

Paying for sex should not be considered as a decadent act as some people often think about it. When men live far away from their wives, paying for safe sex could be a way out for them. Or is the case for some single women, responding to nature's call - it is not a crime.

Looking at the issue from a human perspective, prostitution has helped to solve a sensitive social need. However, if we let prostitution take place in an uncontrolled environment, it will have serious consequences, including the spread of sexually transmitted diseases and HIV/AIDS. We need to think about controlling prostitution in a rational way.

What are your suggestions to solve the problem?

Prostitution has become a very difficult and complicated issue to find an answer or control it.

In my opinion, we should tighten the granting of licenses to "sensitive" businesses, like hotels, restaurants, massage parlours and others. They should be located far away from residential areas and schools to help authorities to monitor their business and even intervene when necessary.

For the immediate future, if we cannot "eliminate" prostitution, we should come up with measures to reduce its negative impact on society.

VNS/VNN

RayNix
19-08-2014, 12:15 PM
can help me translate what does this whole paragraph is talking about ??

Đừng snghĩ và buùn nữa tui ơi.. Rồi sẽ có điều tốt đẹp hơn ngàn lần đến với mềnh mà ...! Hócccc bí nhiu đó đủ roài..! Cố gắng sốg tốt như ngta đă nói zới mềnh..!! Dả dả..dối dối..!luận biện- biện luận..

forgotoldnick
23-08-2014, 03:12 PM
can help me translate what does this whole paragraph is talking about ??

Đừng snghĩ và buùn nữa tui ơi..
Rồi sẽ có điều tốt đẹp hơn ngàn lần đến với mềnh mà ...!
Hócccc bí nhiu đó đủ roài..!
Cố gắng sốg tốt như ngta đă nói zới mềnh..!!
Dả dả..dối dối..!luận biện- biện luận..

not word for word translation but more or less I translated the meaning,

mềnh - refers to a person
dont think and be saddened further oh my! or (Oh my god!)
good/better things will come to mềnh
all these things are choking enough already
be diligent about living well like what others have told you
truth or lies, it is of no use arguing..

jackbl
25-08-2014, 01:00 AM
Leave your comfort zone on the road to personal growth
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VietNamNet Bridge – Life as an expat can be unbelievably comfortable. Many of us are incredibly fortunate in that our standard of living in Viet Nam is higher than in the places we left behind. The weather is better (for me as a Scot at least!), beer is cheaper than water and plush apartments are affordable for most. It is all too easy to fall into the cosy routine of work, beers, and Western comforts.

Sure, moving to a different country to start a new life is daunting, and it took me a while to get settled. In those initial weeks the expat community and the availability of Western comforts were crucial.

Most people I came across had once had the exact same questions when they arrived: How cold does winter actually get? Where can I buy good cheese? What is the appropriate amount of money to give at a wedding?

But after a while I was bored of it. I decided I had had enough of sticking to my comfortable routine of work - bia hoi - bed. It was time to make use of the fantastic range of activities and leisurely pursuits available.

So six months down the line I can look back at a whole new set of hobbies that Viet Nam has provided me with: ballroom dancing in parks, taking ballet classes (which after a 12-year break was an incredibly painful thing to get back into), joining a Gaelic football team, learning to knit and sew, signing up for French lessons and attending classical concerts at the opera house.

And I'm not the only one experimenting! I have met a bunch of people who have decided to take up new hobbies and explore new activities, from film photography and long boarding, to Kung Fu and hiphop dancing. So what is it about being an expat in Viet Nam that inspires us to take up new challenges and explore the vast entertainment options?

I think for me personally it is the feeling that every single day is full of surprises and challenges. During one single day my mood varies tremendously based on the experiences I make: in one moment, I'm happy because I finally didn't get ripped off at the market, the next, I'm grumpy because I got a bucket of dirty water flung at me (by mistake) walking down my street. If I charted my feelings throughout the day, it would resemble a roller-coaster ride!

Here, I stick out like a sore thumb – I'm incredibly pale (summers don't really exist in Scotland), am unfortunately not blessed with Vietnamese slimness, I refuse to learn to drive a motorbike (one day!) and am still very wobbly on my brightly-painted bicycle.

I've spent close to a year in Viet Nam now, both in Hue and in Ha Noi, and I reckon even after 10 years in Viet Nam I would still feel like I didn't fit in properly. And that is half the fun: the feeling you get when you master new things - that sense of accomplishment - even if it is only ordering a taxi to the right address despite terrible pronunciation, is worth it.

Feeling lost, and out of depth provides a unique opportunity to step out of your comfort zone and fully embrace the fact that you have no idea what you are doing. Being an expat here has taught me to laugh about myself and to accept my many shortcomings: my clumsiness with words (and traffic!), my lack of orientation and the fact that I look like a complete idiot when I occasionally do muster up the courage to go for a run around Hoan Kiem Lake.

It reminds me of being a kid again – the first time you show up to basketball practice and get the ball in the face, the first time you fall of your bike when you take of your stabiliser wheels, the first time you give a wrong answer in front of the whole class. Humiliating, at first. But once you move beyond the discomfort of trying something new, of putting yourself out there, you get the hang of it. And maybe even get really good at it.

Leaving your comfort zone makes room for personal growth and self-exploration. In a way, stepping out into the great Unknown teaches us about ourselves and the people around us. It is never too late to learn a new skill, and the mix of nationalities, talents and cultures coming together here in Viet Nam provides us with ample opportunities to challenge ourselves.

So get up off that tiny plastic stool, finish your beer and try something new. Embrace your inner awkward, it's worth it!

by Amy Louisa Cowan

jackbl
26-08-2014, 02:42 AM
Reflections on Hanoi
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VietNamNet Bridge – After a few months in Hanoi, Ounkham Pimmata considers the differences between his hometown of Vientiane and Vietnam’s capital city.

When you make the jump from sleepy Vientiane to Hanoi, life becomes more exciting-whether it’s adjusting to the food, or something as simple as pulling up one of the tiny plastic chairs that dot the city’s sidewalks.

For some people, mountain climbing gives an adrenaline rush, while for others, it’s all about bungee jumping; however, my main thrill now comes from risking my life every time I cross a road in Hanoi.

Drivers here won’t stop at a pedestrian crossing, no matter how long you wait. When I arrived I was told that you’ll never make it across if you don’t have the courage to step forward and not look back.

And that has proven true. The cars and motorbikes will all swerve around a crossing pedestrian, so long as they move at a steady pace.

I have also been surprised to see many older people crossing the street without drivers stopping to let them pass. There isn’t the same respect for the elderly in Hanoi as in Laos.

I often question how anyone with a weak heart can handle the constant and stressful presence of motorbike horns.

In Laos using a horn is impolite. Thai people honk to indicate their approach or out of frustration, while in the Philippines drivers may use the horn when they’re in a hurry, but here it seems to be used at random. And constantly.

What rules?

If you’re not born and bred in the country, driving can be a serious risk as most motorists never signal when they turn. Drivers regularly pull out in front of you without warning and just a momentary lapse of concentration can lead to a serious accident.

A Vietnamese friend told me riding a bicycle might be safer as it would give me more control, but I suspect the risk would be the same-most drivers just ignore the road rules and no amount of control makes that safer.

My Filipino friend drove for years in his hometown without an accident, but a lack of understanding about driving in Hanoi caused him to crash while riding his bicycle to work.

The papers often carry reports of foreigners being involved in accidents, but comprehensive crash statistics are not available.

I often consider giving up on my motorbike and travelling by bus or taxi instead-services which are considerably cheaper than in Vientiane. Buses cost VND5,000 per ride, while metered taxis start from VND8,000.

Thanh Nga and Sao Hanoi are my preferred taxi services as the drivers are fair and the prices reasonable, unlike others that can cheat you on the meter.

Peak hour traffic can jam the streets in Hanoi, but getting around is still easier than bigger cities like Bangkok or Jakarta.

Mild food, simple eating

Vietnamese food bears some similarities to that in Laos, in that both focus on herbs and vegetables, but the lack of spice and saltiness has made me homesick for papaya salad.

The need for spicy food was a cause for concern, but I have discovered most restaurants will cater to my tastes by adjusting some of Vietnam’s staple meals-pho (noodle soup) and bun cha (rice noodles with grilled pork)-by adding chili.

Pho is a popular breakfast and dinner food in Hanoi and has been an integral part of Vietnamese culture since the early 20th century.

One friend told me you haven’t really arrived in Vietnam until you’ve had a bowl of pho-the same as we would say about laab and sticky rice in Laos. With pho eateries plentiful across the city, it’s pretty hard to miss out on the dish.

People are easy-going with their eating in Hanoi, often just sitting around the sidewalk on plastic chairs while vendors offer food from pots on small tables.

The relaxed style of eating is in contrast to the lifestyle of the Vietnamese. Many people are so focused on their work and study they forget to smile and chat. Some Vietnamese people are very friendly, but sometimes an extra smile would go a long way to easing a strained situation.

By contrast, life in Laos is slow and smiles come readily, however, I worry that will die out once the Asean Economic Community begins and competition increases.

When the pho gets too much or you want a change from the sidewalk eating, Hanoi is also home to world-class restaurants and an abundance of international fast food chains.

A healthy nightlife

Hanoi’s nightlife makes forming friendships a breeze. Bars line the streets, people sit on plastic chairs having a drink and it’s easy to open up to a stranger and get chatting.

There’s plenty of variety in the social scene-quiet roadside bars for a casual drink, more classy establishments for a glass of wine, a hotel bar for the real top-end drinkers, or live music cafes for those looking for a bit of atmosphere.

Drinking here is at a social level. Younger locals have a single beer or a fruit shake when they meet up. It’s different from the Lao way-one bottle to warm up, 10 to get the night going.

It offers me some encouragement to drink less, but then again, Vietnam reportedly has one of the highest beer consumption rates in the world. With a population of 90 million that drinks daily, I wouldn’t be surprised.

Most of Hanoi’s nightlife is centred around Hoan Kiem Lake and the Old Quarter. Bars, cafes and nightclubs in close proximity to each other ensure a good night out.

It is relatively safe to travel at night and the beer is reasonably priced. Plus, there’s the excitement of hurriedly moving from the sidewalk into the bar when police arrive.

Local authorities don’t allow chairs on the pavement, as it hinders the city’s clean-up plans. That said, it’s always amusing when, the moment the police have disappeared, the sidewalk scene resumes as normal and Hanoi becomes itself again.

Source: VIR/VOV

devilcheong
26-08-2014, 11:42 PM
Hi every bros here! Have not being active in this forum for Very long time because of some sad stories happened between me and my Viet Gf early this year.. I recently have luck getting a Gf from recommendation from a Viet girl friend.. so this makes me active again in this topic.. although she is very Good in speaking mandarin but some times I likes to use some simple viet language from this forum as a way to communicate with her..
Just come across a word Where I unable to Understand the translate from Google and vdict..
Anh yêu ngu ngon nhe
Many sifu here I'm too impress and feel you guys are really an experts in Viets.
Hopefully to learn more from u guys

forgotoldnick
27-08-2014, 12:03 AM
Anh yêu ngu ngon nhe


Darling sleep tight ya

jackbl
27-08-2014, 12:09 AM
Anh yêu ngu ngon nhe

Other than Anh yeu. You may also heard about Em yeu, Con yeu, Me yeu, Ban yeu, etc ...... :D :p

devilcheong
27-08-2014, 10:25 AM
Wow! Thanks alot BRO! I have learn alot of knowledge here for about 1yr plus in this SBF forum... I have studied from all the postings regarding about Vietnamese experienced by many bros here when I met my 1st Viet Gf last year ...
For yours info.. I already married n wife is local.. the only problem I have now is I really really dunno why I'm so Very attracted to Vietnamese girl ever since I have my 1st encounter with my 1st Viet Gf...
Now my 2nd Viet Gf loves me more than the 1st Gf n before that I also have told my 2nd Gf that I'm already married..
I'm actually now very confused and stucked cos I love my wife Very much but I love my current Gf too...

Hurricane88
27-08-2014, 10:43 AM
Wow! Thanks alot BRO! I have learn alot of knowledge here for about 1yr plus in this SBF forum... I have studied from all the postings regarding about Vietnamese experienced by many bros here when I met my 1st Viet Gf last year ...
For yours info.. I already married n wife is local.. the only problem I have now is I really really dunno why I'm so Very attracted to Vietnamese girl ever since I have my 1st encounter with my 1st Viet Gf...
Now my 2nd Viet Gf loves me more than the 1st Gf n before that I also have told my 2nd Gf that I'm already married..
I'm actually now very confused and stucked cos I love my wife Very much but I love my current Gf too...

are you sure there are many Vietnam experiences here in learning Tieng Viet thread...:confused:

are you referring to this thread...http://www.sammyboyforum.com/showthread.php?t=64297

why dun you re-post in the Vietnamese Life Partner thread...sure many will comment there...:)

pting
27-08-2014, 10:45 AM
Vietnamese’s bad habits: Littering, belching, refusing to queue

- Picking their nose[s]


Interesting insight, remind me of 1 Viet girl whom keep digging her nose with her finger while i am bonking her.
Damn turn off.

Hurricane88
27-08-2014, 10:47 AM
Interesting insight, remind me of 1 Viet girl whom keep digging her nose with her finger while i am bonking her.
Damn turn off.

wow...what a turn off...for me my little bro will loose interest very fast...haha...no way to bonk anymore if any gal to pick nose while bonking...:)

devilcheong
27-08-2014, 11:29 AM
Hehehe.. I actually I have browse through nearly all the posted topic in this SBF page n I did learn alot of stuffs from Understanding Vietnamese Partner and Tieng Viet lovers club.. there is 1 time dat my wife suspected I have a viet mistress cos she saw me browsing SBF pages and forums about Viet everyday and stucked with the same pages for many hours.. now I only trying to login when she is not around with me :D

FireShark
27-08-2014, 11:54 AM
Interesting insight, remind me of 1 Viet girl whom keep digging her nose with her finger while i am bonking her.
Damn turn off.

Totally a turn off, I think when I saw that, my bro will just get soften and I got no mood to bomk her anymore

KangTuo
27-08-2014, 01:18 PM
I'm actually now very confused and stucked cos I love my wife Very much but I love my current Gf too...

Think with your head on top... Not with the one below. Don't be confused

Seletar
27-08-2014, 01:40 PM
Wow! Thanks alot BRO! I have learn alot of knowledge here for about 1yr plus in this SBF forum... I have studied from all the postings regarding about Vietnamese experienced by many bros here when I met my 1st Viet Gf last year ...
For yours info.. I already married n wife is local.. the only problem I have now is I really really dunno why I'm so Very attracted to Vietnamese girl ever since I have my 1st encounter with my 1st Viet Gf...
Now my 2nd Viet Gf loves me more than the 1st Gf n before that I also have told my 2nd Gf that I'm already married..
I'm actually now very confused and stucked cos I love my wife Very much but I love my current Gf too...

Don't play with fire, since you are married and have local wife, you better concentrate on your family and forget about VB. You can "steal eat " outside , VB can provide service that you can't get from your wife, but no point keeping a vb as a mistress, because it will ruin your life. :eek:

devilcheong
27-08-2014, 03:04 PM
Thanks for the advice bros.. I'm confused because my Gf now treat me as her ox now.. I have also fallen for her caring and gentle personality... it's very hard to let go.. all that she wanted is someone that can bring her for meals, watching movies, exploring new places for food and fruits and someone to care for her. She doesn't like shopping and buying clothes but only buys when she goes back Vietnam. She e wont waste money for clothing, accessories and expensive stuffs.. dats why I like her so much...

Hurricane88
27-08-2014, 03:18 PM
Thanks for the advice bros.. I'm confused because my Gf now treat me as her ox now.. I have also fallen for her caring and gentle personality... it's very hard to let go.. all that she wanted is someone that can bring her for meals, watching movies, exploring new places for food and fruits and someone to care for her. She doesn't like shopping and buying clothes but only buys when she goes back Vietnam. She e wont waste money for clothing, accessories and expensive stuffs.. dats why I like her so much...

haha...dun think you understand VB yet la...this type of VB plenty...:p

you knew her here means she WL...come here to be prostitute...sleep with men and earns men money...so what is so special about her...:p

you dun buy doesn't mean other bf/ox will not buy for her...you think you are her only bf/ox ha...dun be naive...:p

devilcheong
27-08-2014, 03:55 PM
Bro Hurricane.. nope .. she is not a WL and I knew her from a Vietnam friend which I have known for 2yr. She is her cousin and helping her at a viet eatery shop. Yes she before that have a bf in Viet but already a history.. she is quite slim and petite but a bit busty..
From this SBF forum, I have read through many experience and dealing with Viet..
So dats why I also reserved some expectations from her cos I already have some bad experience from my 1st Viet which I nearly made her pregnant :p ... which is only 18yrs old by the time I bonked her...

KangTuo
27-08-2014, 04:05 PM
Thanks for the advice bros.. I'm confused because my Gf now treat me as her ox now.. I have also fallen for her caring and gentle personality... it's very hard to let go.. .. dats why I like her so much...

chúc may mắn.... :rolleyes:

devilcheong
27-08-2014, 04:27 PM
I already know that WL is very dangerous to touch n I will try to avoid but only for bonking..
Thus I will still remained to learn more in this forum and get more infos from all the bros here.. will try to sort out a better solutions right now... haiz...

Hurricane88
27-08-2014, 05:31 PM
Bro Hurricane.. nope .. she is not a WL and I knew her from a Vietnam friend which I have known for 2yr. She is her cousin and helping her at a viet eatery shop. Yes she before that have a bf in Viet but already a history.. she is quite slim and petite but a bit busty..
From this SBF forum, I have read through many experience and dealing with Viet..
So dats why I also reserved some expectations from her cos I already have some bad experience from my 1st Viet which I nearly made her pregnant :p ... which is only 18yrs old by the time I bonked her...

So how she survived here if you dun give her money to spend...what about those months she cannot come sinkie how she survived...you knew what she doing...ppl say you believe...dun be naive...:)

Like bro seletar mentioned...you playing with fire...you understand tieng viet or understand what she wrote or speak...she learned foreign language for what purpose...just come let you screw and become gf to a married man...hahaha...:p

Seletar
27-08-2014, 06:50 PM
So how she survived here if you dun give her money to spend...what about those months she cannot come sinkie how she survived...you knew what she doing...ppl say you believe...dun be naive...:)

Like bro seletar mentioned...you playing with fire...you understand tieng viet or understand what she wrote or speak...she learned foreign language for what purpose...just come let you screw and become gf to a married man...hahaha...:p

Agree with Tai kor H88, better to cut ties cut losses now rather than regret later. WL or not, they are here to kc the not so bright Sillyporeans as mentioned by bro SingViet. :)

devilcheong
27-08-2014, 08:02 PM
I understand what you are saying and thinking.. I actually get to know her elder cousin who is a boss of a Viet restaurant, a Viet clothing shop, a massage shop and a sundry shop..
What do you think she learn foreign language for? Her elder cousin Hubby is a local too..
She comes here to work for her elder cousin n earn money for her family back home.
Her elder cousins do warn her about not simply to friends with males over here as they might get cheated by strangers over here.
I happened to know her elder cousin n when 1 day I visited her elder cousin eatery shop n get electrocuted by her.. then many things just happened so naturally...
By the way Her elder cousin don't know I'm married..
I tell her only after I bed her that night... haiz...

miumiu6464
27-08-2014, 09:03 PM
Totally a turn off, I think when I saw that, my bro will just get soften and I got no mood to bomk her anymore

If a girl can be dogging her nose when you're bonking her, maybe it's a sign that you're not doing something right lor. .. right boh?

miumiu6464
27-08-2014, 09:09 PM
I understand what you are saying and thinking.. I actually get to know her elder cousin who is a boss of a Viet restaurant, a Viet clothing shop, a massage shop and a sundry shop..
What do you think she learn foreign language for? Her elder cousin Hubby is a local too..
She comes here to work for her elder cousin n earn money for her family back home.
Her elder cousins do warn her about not simply to friends with males over here as they might get cheated by strangers over here.
I happened to know her elder cousin n when 1 day I visited her elder cousin eatery shop n get electrocuted by her.. then many things just happened so naturally...
By the way Her elder cousin don't know I'm married..
I tell her only after I bed her that night... haiz...

Bro

End of the day, please remember that you're married. The bros here meant well lor. Good luck.

devilcheong
27-08-2014, 10:31 PM
Yup..miu miu.. you are right.. maybe I just remained her as my temporary Gf until she have found her lucky guy which can give her happiness.. I'll tell her dat..
Deep in my heart.. my WIFE still placed no.1 and no one can replace dat till today. .

forgotoldnick
27-08-2014, 11:35 PM
my WIFE placed no.1 .

This sentence got copyright issue....kangtuo reserved it....:)

mutantchicken
28-08-2014, 04:58 AM
So how she survived here if you dun give her money to spend...what about those months she cannot come sinkie how she survived...you knew what she doing...ppl say you believe...dun be naive...:)

Like bro seletar mentioned...you playing with fire...you understand tieng viet or understand what she wrote or speak...she learned foreign language for what purpose...just come let you screw and become gf to a married man...hahaha...:p

i say this girl is playing with fire dealing with a guy who is already married and cannot support her or doesnt support her from his own claims..esp one that doenst know how to use contraception and nealy get a girl pregant...too many guys come here dont wanan say they being carrot..want to act liek big man have all these vb fall for their charm...dont reveal all teh facts...i suggest people just ignore him, the answers are in the threads same questions answeed 100 times previously

Hurricane88
28-08-2014, 08:20 AM
i say this girl is playing with fire dealing with a guy who is already married and cannot support her or doesnt support her from his own claims..esp one that doenst know how to use contraception and nealy get a girl pregant...too many guys come here dont wanan say they being carrot..want to act liek big man have all these vb fall for their charm...dont reveal all teh facts...i suggest people just ignore him, the answers are in the threads same questions answeed 100 times previously

good suggestion...shall ignore him...:)

KangTuo
28-08-2014, 08:36 AM
This sentence got copyright issue....kangtuo reserved it....:)

I also copied...

FireShark
28-08-2014, 10:59 AM
By the way Her elder cousin don't know I'm married..
I tell her only after I bed her that night... haiz...

You still haven't taste the power and smartness of VB yet.

devilcheong
28-08-2014, 11:06 AM
Please don't simply put remarks like that without knowing every story behind the scene and simply barking here n there like a expert.
The nearly pregnant story is the girl asking me not to wear CD as she want to have bb with me but I decline becoz I know she had a bf before me n they are still together..i dont know what is her plan but when I ask her, she juz say maybe will leave her bf coz no money to support her n family.. all money is kept by the Bf mum.. but after sometimes not seeing her few months, I heard dat she already pregnant with her Bf bb from her friends n they already get married in Hcm
As for my current gf now, she not yet request for anything else but my company and sometimes doing some groceries for her daily needs or sending some pocket money for her family back in Hcm only..
I did tell my gf regarding abt my situation n she said see first coz she also don't intend to think too much for now.

devilcheong
28-08-2014, 11:13 AM
I respect and accept all good ideas and information from all bros here but must at least give me a chance to clarify myself before sentencing me to death.. cos from all the history posted many years ago here, all these postings is like viet Bible for me to learn from u guys.
If anything which I wrote is offensive over here, I apologize for maybe being rude with using some sentences or remarks.

mutantchicken
28-08-2014, 08:25 PM
Please don't simply put remarks like that without knowing every story behind the scene and simply barking here n there like a expert.
The nearly pregnant story is the girl asking me not to wear CD as she want to have bb with me but I decline becoz I know she had a bf before me n they are still together..i dont know what is her plan but when I ask her, she juz say maybe will leave her bf coz no money to support her n family.. all money is kept by the Bf mum.. but after sometimes not seeing her few months, I heard dat she already pregnant with her Bf bb from her friends n they already get married in Hcm
As for my current gf now, she not yet request for anything else but my company and sometimes doing some groceries for her daily needs or sending some pocket money for her family back in Hcm only..
I did tell my gf regarding abt my situation n she said see first coz she also don't intend to think too much for now.

wow...you MUST REALLY be a fertility expert...ask by ex gf to go bb, refused but still nearly pregnant...so maybe i have got many girls pregant when i THINK abt going bb...hahha what a joke..she doenst ask any EXCEPT YOUR COMPANY...but ask sending pockey money for her family back in HCM...man you dropped on your head at birth...say black then later white...ask for nothing one minte then next sentence is she ask for pocket money for parents...one minute nearly pregant, next is gf ask go bareback...you explaination makes u even more stupid than before the explaination

jackbl
29-08-2014, 02:11 AM
Mid-autumn season reaches its peak
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VietNamNet Bridge – Economic recovery in the first six months of 2014 has left positive impacts on production and business activities. Improvement of the macro economy has an effect on business by increasing the purchasing power, especially the Mid-autumn moon-cake market that has turned active recently.

Bustling moon-cake market

Only a fortnight remains between now and the Mid-autumn Festival, a time for enterprises and consumers to choose moon-cakes as gifts for partners, friends, or relatives, and a time for family reunion.

The Mid-autumn festive atmosphere has spread to all corners in HCMC such as Saigon supermarket on Ba Thang Hai Street, Tan Binh Exhibition & Convention Center and Lotte Mart in District 7 thanks to many moon-cakes vending kiosks of large brands. Consumers have flocked to Kinh Do moon-cake selling booths on streets such as Nguyen Tri Phuong, Thanh Thai, Ly Thuong Kiet, Quang Trung, Nguyen Oanh and Le Thi Rieng Park, especially after working hours and at weekends.

Ho Thi Tuyet, who owns a Kinh Do moon-cake vending kiosk on Nguyen Tri Phuong Street, says that there are still a lot of enterprises choosing moon-cakes to gift to employees and customers. Every late afternoon these days, many customers come to buy moon-cakes at her booth for their families to eat or to give to their relatives.

Ms Le Anh Hong, who has bought several moon-cake boxes on Ba Thang Hai Street, says that she will give the gifts to relatives in her hometown this weekend and during the National Day holiday, September 2. Ms Hong says she must buy moon-cakes soon to have time for visiting her parents and grandparents. “Elderly people need affection from offspring, so it is impossible to send gifts without visiting them,” she explains.

According to large producers, many enterprises have ordered moon-cake boxes early to give to partners and employees, especially those at industrial parks, export processing zones, joint ventures and foreign firms. This year, quite many workers at industrial parks and export processing zones may receive Mid-autumn gifts from employers as enterprises increasingly attach importance to this festival.

Raising moon-cake output

Businesses have forecast the peak of the Mid-autumn shopping season to last from this weekend to the 15th day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar. Especially, many people will have chances to visit relatives or friends during the upcoming four-day National Day holiday. They will select moon-cakes as gifts for this occasion, thus raising demand for this product.

Mrs Le Thi Muoi, a moon-cake vendor on Nguyen Trai Street, says that the number of customers during weekend surges by two to three times against normal days. “We have received more orders for favorite products such as Trang Vang, green moon-cakes and the new squared moon cake boxes to meet high demands at weekend and on September 2,” she adds.

Due to increasing purchasing power and bustling market as well as high demands of enterprises, most prestigious moon-cake producers have sharply raised output against the same period of last year. A representative of Kinh Do Corporation says that as of August 17, its sales volume had improved 9% year-on-year. This year, both families and enterprises have had strong demands, signaling increasing moon-cake consumption in the coming days.

SGT/VNN

jackbl
31-08-2014, 12:01 AM
Vietnamese brides teaching mother tongue language
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VietNamNet Bridge – Many Vietnamese brides in Taiwan have become teachers of native language after engaging in a programme entitled “Ngọn đuốc tân di dân” (New Immigrant Torch).

According to statistics, Taiwan (China) is home to around 100,000 Vietnamese brides whose children number 200,000. Vietnamese women are very keen on teaching their mother language to children. Local authorities are also placing importance on Vietnamese language training for younger generations of Vietnamese brides.

Mother – first teacher of Vietnamese language

Nguyen Thi Lien Huong, a Vietnamese language and culture lecturer of Taiwan University, has taken part in the “New Immigrant Torch” programme for seven years.

Huong married a Taiwanese man, and has three children who are taught Vietnamese language by their mother.

She said her children are learning to speak Vietnamese and her husband, Ngo Chi Vi, has spent years studying Vietnamese language and traditional culture. “We often talk in Vietnamese so that our children can learn Vietnamese daily,” Huong shared.

Huong’s children stay proactive in joining exchange programmes organised by the Vietnamese community in Taipei (Taiwan) to improve their Vietnamese language skills.

“My children have participated in an exchange programme with famous singers Ho Ngoc Ha and Cao Thai Son. Many Vietnamese-Taiwanese young people attended a ceremony to welcome the 2014 lunar New Year in Taipei. Their traditional costumes, music and dance performance received great applause from audiences,” she elaborated.

Huong considers music and literature effective channels for younger Vietnamese generations in Taiwan to learn Vietnamese language. “When I was pregnant I sang Vietnamese folksongs to my would-be babies. I also told Vietnamese legends and fairy tales to my little children,” she confided.
Vietnamese brides, traditional culture, traditional costumes

Tran Lam Phung, who is teaching her native language to Vietnamese expatriates in Taiwan, said she moved to Taiwan in 2000 to marry a Taiwanese man. She has two children. Phung is working at a primary school and teaching Vietnamese for kids and students in Kaohsiung and Tainan cities.

Phung said many Vietnamese women voluntarily teach Vietnamese for “F2” generations of Vietnamese-Taiwanese families.

“Parents are encouraged to take their children to free-of-charge Vietnamese teaching centres. Younger generations will play an important role in strengthening Vietnam-Taiwan relations and make contributions to their homeland,” she added.

Positive impact by “New Immigrant Torch”

Since 2012, the Vietnam Ministry of Education and Training has cooperated with the Taiwan Immigration Department to implement the “New Immigrant Torch” programme, targeting younger generations of overseas Vietnamese which provided an excellent opportunity for them to study their mother tongue language.

As a member of a group compiling Vietnamese teaching programme, Nguyen Thi Lien Huong, said expatriates have many textbooks to study Vietnamese. These textbooks include chapters introducing Vietnam and Taiwan, as well as bilateral ties. Most Vietnamese language teachers are Vietnamese women who are working or residing in Taiwan, she added.

Huong said all Vietnamese students are provided with free-of-charge courses. “It’s my honour to teach my mother language to younger generations of overseas Vietnamese in Taiwan. The “New Immigrant Torch” programme offers Vietnamese brides in Taiwan a chance to teach their native language and introduce Vietnam’s traditional culture,” she said.

Bridge linking to homeland

Bui Trong Van, Chief of the Vietnam Culture and Economics Office in Taipei, said Taiwan has offered many incentives for Vietnamese brides and their children to improve their lives and integrate into their current residence country.

Vietnamese now becomes one of the key foreign languages taught in Taiwan-based universities, which attaches importance to developing the “New Immigrant Torch” programme to popularise the Vietnamese language. All Vietnamese brides wish their children can speak their mother tongue, he added.

“There are many advantages for students in Taiwan to study Vietnamese, it is another foreign language besides English at tertiary level and will help them seek jobs more easily after graduation. Mother language will help Vietnamese younger generations in Taiwan to get closer to their home country”, Van noted.

At present, approximately 20 universities in Taiwan teach Vietnamese as the second foreign language, while around 10 high schools teach Vietnam as the first foreign language.

Source: VOV

jackbl
31-08-2014, 02:37 PM
Mid-autumn festival in Vietnam: Time for mooncakes, reunion, love and joy
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Despite the different theories on its origin, the mid-autumn festival and its indispensable treat – moon cakes – have been well loved and practiced for several hundred years.

The mid-autumn festival, which is believed to originate in China and celebrated by many Asian countries, including Vietnam, falls on the 15th day of the eighth month on the lunar calendar.

The festival falls on September 8 this year.

According to Chinese folklore, there are several explanations on the origin of the mid-autumn festival and mooncakes, which boast a unique, sweet flavor and are diverse in shapes, sizes and fillings.

In feudal times, Chinese emperors would traditionally perform praying rituals to the sun in springtime and to the moon in the fall in hopes of auspicious weather, prosperous crops, peace, and wealth.

Locals thus considered the 15th day of the eighth lunar month the day to pay tribute to the moon god, and offer moon-like round cakes to the god on the occasion.

Following the ritual, they merrily relished the sweets and admired the full moon in the company of their dearest ones.

Another theory on the origin of the festival and mooncakes revolves around Tang Ming Huang (685-762), one of China’s Tang Dynasty emperors.

Once, while taking a stroll in his royal garden, the emperor was taken to an autumn-time fairy world by a monk with magical powers.

Back in his palace, wistful of the fairy scenery, the emperor ordered that locals hold celebrations to mark the special occasion every year.

The emperor and his favorite royal concubine also relished mooncakes and wine together during the moonlit night.

Celebrations

Despite the different theories on the festival and mooncakes, it is celebrated annually in China, Vietnam and other Asian countries, and its significance remains intact over several hundred years.

The fest is considered a special occasion for family reunions, and the original round shape of the mooncakes is also indicative of the meaning.

During the celebrations, family members habitually get together, make offerings to their ancestors and delightedly enjoy mooncakes over fragrant tea while admiring the full moon.

Meanwhile, kids typically hang around with their well-lit lanterns, chanting traditional moon-welcoming songs, and playing traditional games.

Over the course of time, mooncakes now presented to relatives, friends, and colleagues as a token of love, care, and gratitude have seen major changes and additions.

In Vietnam, just like in other Asian countries, many varieties of the original mooncakes have been produced and well embraced.

Apart from traditional “banh nuong” (baked mooncake) and “banh deo” (sticky rice mooncake), mooncakes are now shaped as cute animals or come in other nice shapes.

Fillings also include new ingredients, ranging from expensive ones such as fish fins to fruit, jelly, and ice cream, in addition to the traditional mung bean paste, salted eggs, Chinese sausage, lotus seeds, and jam.

Some bakeries have also come up with moon cupcakes, bringing a fresh breeze to the traditional market.

Diet and vegetarian mooncakes can lighten up diabetic, overweight, or vegetarian clients’ taste buds while maintaining their health and eating habits.

Mooncake mold making craft

Though most local mooncake producers now prefer to make the cakes on an industrial scale with modern technology, a number of small-scale producers and households still use the traditional wooden molds to make the sweets.

In Hanoi, artisans on certain streets still manage to retain the time-honored craft of mooncake mold making.

Such handmade, dexterously crafted molds can be found before and around the mid-autumn festival in such areas as Hang Quat Street and Dinh Quan Village in Thuong Tin District.

It takes patience and high craftsmanship to saw wood and chisel it into intricate carvings, especially with molds for mooncakes in animal shapes or other technically demanding designs.

A number of housewives have now chosen to buy the molds and make homemade mooncakes of their own to ensure food hygiene and suit the tastes of their family and friends.

jackbl
01-09-2014, 12:23 AM
Poor children in divided, divorcing families in Vietnam
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Many judges in Vietnam recall their surprise about the behavior of couples in divorce courts when they were committed to equally sharing their assets, from the house itself to pairs of chopsticks, spoons, and buckets, but failed to adequately respect their children.

The cases have tormented the judges for years even though the legal proceedings had been completed, they confessed.

Counting chopsticks to share

There were two reasons urging wives and husbands to equally share their minor assets such as pairs of chopsticks, spoons, and buckets: feeling revengeful at each other or both leading poor lives.

In the 1980s when Vietnam was in economic hardships and life was difficult, wives and husbands in divorce courts often asked judges to share their assets from houses to bowls and pairs of chopsticks, said Truong Van Sang, vice head judge of the provincial court of Tien Giang Province in the Mekong Delta.

Economic troubles greatly affected the behavior of people, especially in courts, he said.

Agreeing with the fact, Nguyen Duy Thanh, head judge of the People’s Court of Hong Ngu Town in the Mekong Delta province of Dong Thap, added that he in person had to arrive at the houses of many couples to check and count their bowls, buckets, pairs of chopsticks to prepare for equal sharing.

Thanh mentioned a couple who came from the central region of Vietnam. The wife and husband had almost nothing, except a small mudded-wall house and simple kitchen appliances.

After sharing bowls, buckets and chopsticks, they asked the judge to share a rice mortar.

Poor children in divorce courts

In a divorce case at a court of District 3 in Ho Chi Minh City, the husband demanded his wife take their two daughters to the court to hear the mistakes their mother had made that caused the divorce.

The husband verbally abused his wife for adultery which he said led to the divorce, according to officials working at the court.

At the court, the wife did not deny that she had not loved her husband and had fallen in love with another man.

Their two daughters, aged around nine and ten, cried their eyes out when witnessing their parents insult each other in front of them.

Soon after, the two children insisted on leaving the court and it was approved by the judge.

What witnesses at the court could see was the fear and crying of the children upon feeling the separation of their beloved parents coming.

It is wrong to say that the wife and husband do not have love for each other at divorce courts, said Ho Trung Hieu, a lawyer who is the former judge of the Ho Chi Minh City People’s Court.

He said he had tried a case in which both wife and husband admitted they still loved each other but insisted on a divorce because they could not forgive their own mistakes.

Arguing with his wife in his drunkenness, the husband abused his wife by saying that, “You are of the sort of restaurant waitresses!” The phrase indirectly refers to her being a kind of prostitute in the Vietnamese language.

Although the husband repented for his mistake, the wife was determined to hold her child and leave his house.

“It is sad for any divorce, but separation resulting from lack of forgiveness is really painful,” said Hieu.

Judge Sang from Tien Giang said he has been obsessed with witnessing a couple separating their own children after a divorce.

After his court ruled the wife and husband to each keep a child, Sang stepped to the upper floor of the court building and saw the two children being held in opposite directions by their parents to show their determination.

The two children cried and bent themselves toward each other, calling out their names in hopelessness.

jackbl
02-09-2014, 12:47 AM
Singaporean investors earning big money in Vietnam
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VietNamNet Bridge – Many Singaporean businesspeople have invested in big projects in Vietnam in many different business fields, especially real estate.

the Government of Singapore (GIC) Fund on August 14 unexpectedly announced it had become a big shareholder of Vinasun (VNS) after wrapping up a deal to buy 4.5 million VNS shares, or 7.96 percent of chartered capital.

With the current price of VND45,000 per share, the Singaporean fund has poured VND200 billion into Vietnam’s largest taxi firm.

This is the second Singaporean-sourced capital investment deal in VNS. Prior to that, another fund, which also has relations to the Singaporean government, Teal Two Partners Ltd, bought 7.93 million VNS shares, or 14 percent of the firm’s chartered capital.

Teal Two Partners Ltd is now the largest shareholder of PAN Pacific, holding 8.1 million shares, or 20 percent of PAN Pacific’s chartered capital. Meanwhile, GIC holds 4.7 percent of PAN’s shares.

Analysts believe that the Singaporean cash flow will continue to head toward Vietnam, targeting the real estate, industry, hotels, banks, logistics and retail sectors.

In mid-2013, two multi-million dollar investment deals made by Richard Chandler, the billionaire who was born and grew up in Singapore.

He reportedly spent $99 million to buy 80 percent of stakes of Hoan My Medical Group and 58.7 million Masan (MSN) shares from six domestic investors.

If counting the 20 million MSN shares bought in late 2010, the billionaire now holds up to 78.7 million MSN shares, or 10.7 percent.

He is the biggest foreign shareholder of Vietnam’s largest consumer goods manufacturing group. The share value is estimated at $330 million.

Many other major Singaporean investors have become involved in big deals in Vietnam.

These include CapitalLand, the developer of Mulberry Lane in Hanoi, Vista in HCM City, and big hotels like the Somerset Grand Hanoi, Somerset Hoa Binh, Somerset Westlake, Somerset Chancellor Court HCM City and Somerset HCM City.

The Singaporean real estate giant Keppel Land is well known in Vietnam for many projects such as Saigon Centre, Sedona Suites Royal Park - Hanoi, Villa Rivera, and The Estella.

In addition, the Singaporean banker UOB (United Overseas Bank) holds 20 percent of Southern Bank’s stakes.

Temasek, the Singapore government corporation, holds 3.6 percent of FPT stakes, Vietnam’s largest information technology group, and 20 percent of Mekong Bank’s stakes.

Analysts commented that Vietnam is one of the most attractive investment destinations for Singaporean investors. Vietnam is suitable to both the investors who plan long-term business in Vietnam and those who want to make profits from short-term projects.

In September 2013, the Orchid Fund withdrew capital from FPT just two years after it injected money into the technology group. The sale of the 10 percent of FPT stakes brought VND1.3 trillion, a satisfactory profit of 20-30 percent to the investment fund.

Manh Ha

Hurricane88
02-09-2014, 09:41 AM
Toi den Tu Viet Nam.
So thich cua toi la xem phim sex.


ban viet o day la sai roi...o day la hoc tieng viet...:)

FireShark
02-09-2014, 10:57 AM
Singaporean investors earning big money in Vietnam
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Manh Ha

I think only the big investor are making $$ in Vietnam. I want to make some $$ in Vietnam also difficult:(

Hurricane88
02-09-2014, 11:06 AM
I think only the big investor are making $$ in Vietnam. I want to make some $$ in Vietnam also difficult:(

haizzz....sigh sigh...:)

forgotoldnick
06-09-2014, 03:02 PM
Toi den Tu Viet Nam.
So thich cua toi la xem phim sex.

an kem k:D

miumiu6464
06-09-2014, 09:36 PM
an kem k:D


Ignore.....

jackbl
07-09-2014, 11:03 PM
Unique fairs in Saigon
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VietNamNet Bridge – Taking place on the weekend or the last days of the month, Saigon’s fairs mainly sell fashion products, exclusive accessories or discount goods. They have become popular with young people.

HCM City has about 10 fairs that are held periodically. In addition to selling exclusive products, the fairs offer discounts of 30-70% so they are also called “sale-off fairs”. Goods at these fairs are similar, mostly fashion products, but they are always crowded.

2DaySale

The 2DaySale on Nguyen Thai Binh road, District 1 has over 40 booths of stores, online shops and students selling thousands of products, from clothing to fashion accessories, shoes, cosmetics, furniture decoration, and souvenirs at affordable prices.

In addition to selling goods, some people make craft items on the spot at the request of the customer.

It is still in the form of a flea market, but the model of 2DaysSale is more creative than that. The fair is held indoors to avoid Saigon’s changeable weather. In addition, this market also has days for goods exchange and super discount days.

Youth Fair

Youth Fair is the name of the fair held by the HCM City Youth Cultural House, held on the first Saturday of every month, for young people who love doing business. The fair is not just for young people in HCM City but also those from neighboring provinces such as Long An, Dong Nai, Binh Duong ...

The organizers also often add recreational activities to the fair, such as karaoke contests, invention contests and talks about business start-ups.

Saigon Flea Market

Saigon Flea Market held at the Crescent Lake in Phu My Hung, District 7 is a Western-style bazaar in Saigon, which attracts many young people shopping and bartering goods.

This fair takes place twice a month, on Sunday, with a few dozen stalls selling fashion clothing, handbags, cosmetics, accessories, interior decoration items, etc. Most of the goods are handcrafted products of high aesthetic value. There are no counterfeit goods.

Young people from many countries take part in the fair, so the products are diverse. The prices are reasonable, from a two to dozens of US dollars.

Saigon Flea Market was one of the first fairs in Vietnam and one of the first successful fairs in the country. The fair is also a place for exchanging and selling used products.

Hello Weekend Market

Hello Weekend Market is held with the idea to "rescue the closets of girls". The fair is held at different places and different times, depending on the number of registered booths.

Like the Saigon Flea Market, Hello Weekend Market fair is also a place for exchanging and selling used items.

Sale Hunter Fair

Sale Hunter is held as a garage sale for young people in HCM City. At this market, all products are discounted from 10% to 70%. Buyers can find anything from the most trendy to secondhand and handmade items.

As an indoor flea market, Sale Hunter is a favorite destination of young people.

Share 4 Sale

This event is held once a month and attracts many young clients. The fair is considered the biggest fashion fair for young people at present, even though the goods sold in the market as well as the style of the fair are not much different from the other fairs. The fair is organized by topics and the major products are also fashionable products at reasonable prices.

In this market, there are stalls offering beauty tips, and services to change used clothes and old shoes into trendy products.

T. Van

jackbl
11-09-2014, 12:45 AM
In a land where piracy rules, honest merchants struggle for survival
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VietNamNet Bridge – Whether it’s for movies, books, music, art or software, the concept of intellectual property (IP) is seldom treated seriously in Vietnam. And in a market where copyright infringement has become alarmingly popular, legitimate content providers have a hard time scratching out an existence.

According to Dr. Le Thi Nam Giang of HCM City Law University, there are five licensed e-book distributors in Vietnam. By contrast, hundreds of websites provide pirated books for download free of charge. Their offerings are made under the pretense of exchanging knowledge in the community, with the common mantra of “information wants to be free”. Their motives, however, are less than altruistic: the websites make profits through advertisements.

Similarly, according to Giang, a licensed film provider once attempted to make a go of it in Vietnam. But it could not compete with the 180 websites providing films free of charge, and ultimately shut its doors.

Laws only exist on paper

Two years ago, honest merchants were heartened when the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism released a document jointly with the Ministry of Information and Communication. It stipulated that websites violating copyright law would be forced to stop their operation.

Since then, tens of thousands of violating websites have been brought into the world. Not one has yet been punished, let alone shuttered.

“You just need to type “truyen” (stories) on Google to see thousands of books available for free download,” says Ha Than, CEO of Lac Viet, a prominent information technology firm.

Dong Phuoc Vinh, Director of the Youth E-book Company, which has operated for the last several years, said that e-book distributors in Vietnam cannot exist on the retail market. At present, his company is living on contracts it has with a telephone company to provide copyrighted books.

Vinh said legitimate e-book firms are caught in a vicious cycle. When copyrights cannot be protected, authors refuse to sign contracts with publishers, making it difficult for publishers to find high-quality products to launch to the market.

“E-book publishers have trouble not only in offering products, but also are subject to strict control by state agencies and have to compete with numerous copyright infringers,” Vinh commented. “This is really a desperate situation for authentic e-book distributors,” he added.

Technical solutions futile

E-book distributors have been trying every possible means to protect copyright, including technical solutions, even though it is inconvenient for readers.

However, the technical solutions are just like locks for honest people, while at the same time, it remains relatively easy for those with ill intent to break into the books to steal the content.

According to Dr. Hoang Le Minh, head of the Vietnam Software Technology and Digital Content Institute, controlling internet users through IP is no longer feasible.

“As the digital environment is getting more and more complex, Vietnam will need both technical and legal solutions to protect the copyright,” Minh said.“I think that it is necessary to set up a system at the national level to be in charge of supervising matters relating to copyright,” he added.

Vinh from the Youth E-book Company also said that the solution of locking e-books technically is not enough to make him feel secure. He hopes legal solutions will be found to settle the current problems.

TBKTSG

jackbl
13-09-2014, 01:16 PM
Vietnamese spend big money on luxury goods, live on borrowed funds
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VietNamNet Bridge – A report says two-thirds of Vietnam’s GDP comes from individual consumption, including purchases made by Vietnamese smitten with luxury goods.


Thoi bao Kinh te Saigon has quoted a survey by Roy Morgan as saying that Vietnamese are major customers for luxury brands, though income per capita in the country is less than $2,000 a year.

Vietnam, which has a high percentage of young consumers, is now a hot market for Apple. The smartphone manufacturer said that its sales soared by threefold within the first three months of the year, and a two-fold increase could be seen every quarter. The high growth rate still continues.

Today’s Vietnamese consumers have two different consumption behaviors. Many try to practice thrift because of the obsession about their difficult days in the past. Others tend to spend money like water, using luxury goods as a way to offset their difficult days in the past.

Fifty-six percent of Vietnamese are aged under 30, and they are especially keen for branded goods. They like to show off to their friends and colleagues what brands they prefer and how much the goods cost.

An online survey conducted by Nielsen of 29,000 people in 58 countries worldwide has given the same result. Fifty-six Vietnamese polled said they were willing to spend big money on luxury items.

The survey found that Vietnam ranked third in the world in terms of fondness for branded goods, just below China (74 percent) and India (59 percent).

Income has been increasing rapidly in recent years, but is still much lower than the other Asian countries. However, consumers are surprisingly becoming one of the most extravagant spenders in the region.

Bui Trinh, a renowned economist, pointed out that the way Vietnamese spend money on luxury goods is not positive for the national economy. He said that he disagreed with the opinion that high spending would help develop the national economy.

Trinh, in an interview given to Dat Viet, said that people have a misunderstanding about the GDP figures.

According to the General Statistics Office (GSO), in 2012, income per capita was VND2 million a month. The figure was VND2.2 million in 2013.

“These are very modest income levels which cannot ensure good lives for people, especially those in rural areas,” Trinh noted.

The statistics released by GSO also showed that the average spending per head was $1,229 in 2012 and $1,372 in 2013, while income per capita was $1,152 and $1,280, respectively.

“The figures show that the majority of people not only cannot save money, but they also have to borrow money to cover basic daily needs,” Trinh said.

“This is really a significant danger, which shows that the high GDP growth rate does not have any significance to people,” he added.

Pham Chi Lan, also a renowned economist, commented that once the middle class spends money on branded luxury goods, this would not be good for domestic production.

Dat Viet

jackbl
14-09-2014, 02:11 AM
Traditional markets or high-end shopping centers for Vietnam?
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Editor's Note: Stivi Cooke is an Australian expat who has lived in Hoi An Ancient Town, located in central Vietnam, for six years.

I often joke that the two national pastimes of Vietnam are sleeping and shopping.

Shopping at your local market is not just a way of life here – it’s part of the ‘Van Hoa’ (culture) that tourists come to experience. However, the world of the small local traders is increasingly coming under threat, not just in Ho Chi Minh City or Hanoi, but Da Nang in the central region as well.

Tuoi Tre News recently reported on the plan by Da Nang City to turn the Han and Con markets into modern, deluxe shopping centers. That’s got local traders worried about their future, and speaking as an expat living in central coastal Vietnam, I’m not in favor of the idea.

All cities thrive on a mixture of the old and new. Most cities have modern supermarkets and shopping centers, but also support the idea of smaller, local markets, which are friendlier and more ‘fun’, as well as a landmark to meet at, go shopping at, or to meet your friends and have a coffee in an informal setting. Heck, I love going to the markets just for the chaos!

It’s almost a human need to have crowded, noisy places full of energy and people milling around. Not to mention the convenience of pulling up on your motorbike, running in, grabbing something for the family and whizzing off in a mad puff of exhaust fumes!

When you visit Ho Chi Minh City, it’s almost obligatory to check out Ben Thanh Market, or the Hanoi night market, known as Dong Xuan Night Market, in the capital city. Regardless of how we label these places, they are communal gathering grounds, settings with traditional links that can’t be compared with the notion that improving the setting of a market is the way of the future.

Diversity and variety (not necessarily always the same thing) are the lifeblood of a thriving city. Aren’t there enough modern shopping centers already in Da Nang? Consider the loss of the tourist dollars if the markets are relocated to less profitable and attractive areas.

The Han Market, for example, looks out to the river and has great views of Da Nang’s spectacular bridges. It’s worth also thinking about their value as tourist attractions and places with character, instead of the soulless sameness of a ‘modern venue’. Why would tourists want to tromp through a multi-story center no different to what they have at home?

I can’t really agree with the idea that Da Nang must have a ‘deluxe trade center’ (to quote the Tuoi Tre News article) to be an international tourist city, or that tourists really want to go somewhere more expensive and less fun than the markets.

The original meaning of the English word ‘market’ was not only ‘to buy and sell in a common area’, but also a ‘fair’. A ‘fair’ was a festive, enjoyable meeting place to showcase farm produce that also had entertainment.

Markets are fun. You go there to ‘people-watch’, haggle over a T-shirt, feel the vegetables, and enjoy the colors and sounds and smells. Shopping centers speak the mantra of ‘buy, buy, buy’. A market shouts the joy of participation in a crowd event. Sure, it’s sometimes not so pleasant, getting pushed around, people shouting all around you, and the fun of getting dragged to a small shoe shop when you really wanted to browse the funny hats – but that’s an experience – something to laugh about with your friends later that day. I don’t think I’ve got many great stories about shopping malls…

Da Nang’s markets are part of the history and the daily life of thousands of people. They are also the economic lifeblood of a wider range of traders unable to afford the rents and costs in a large center.

I travel up to Da Nang at least four times a week from Hoi An, and I’ve noticed that the largest group of road users on the coastal highway are the tough, stocky mums roaring up to Da Nang with two huge bamboo baskets slung on either side of their bike, piled to the top with all manner of goods to trade in the central city. There’s no doubt they are heading for the traditional markets to parley with the stall owners.

We call this a ‘knock-on’ effect, when more people are affected by a change than just the main groups involved. What effect would there be on the rural population near Da Nang who rely economically on the markets for a living if the traders can’t open a shop in a center? Not to mention the loss of all the street trade in food and drink.

Surely there is another way. Is there another location to build a modern trade center with an office block on the river? Yes, further down the river. The new center would also have a transport impact if it’s in the heart of the city, and putting it further away from the city center is unlikely to affect its economic success, since there would be tourist buses rolling up there anyway.

And which would be better to reply with when someone asks, “What do you have that’s interesting in your city?” “Oh, we have a shopping center” or, “Well, we have the markets!”?

pting
14-09-2014, 10:08 AM
VietNamNet Bridge – A report says two-thirds of Vietnam’s GDP comes from individual consumption, including purchases made by Vietnamese smitten with luxury goods.

“The figures show that the majority of people not only cannot save money, but they also have to borrow money to cover basic daily needs,” Trinh said.


Nice article sharing, this remind me of the early Singapore. Back then many of my friends are crazy to buy branded clothes to show off, despite earning little, save on daily food and spend months of saving on branded item, something i never understand:)

Wonder is today Vietnam much like Singapore 15 to 20 years ago.

jackbl
14-09-2014, 01:33 PM
Wonder is today Vietnam much like Singapore 15 to 20 years ago.

Did you see the aunties worn the blouse and pant the same color and patter, that reminds me of my grandmother wearing that 30years ago..... :(

devilcheong
16-09-2014, 07:18 PM
wow...you MUST REALLY be a fertility expert...ask by ex gf to go bb, refused but still nearly pregnant...so maybe i have got many girls pregant when i THINK abt going bb...hahha what a joke..she doenst ask any EXCEPT YOUR COMPANY...but ask sending pockey money for her family back in HCM...man you dropped on your head at birth...say black then later white...ask for nothing one minte then next sentence is she ask for pocket money for parents...one minute nearly pregant, next is gf ask go bareback...you explaination makes u even more stupid than before the explaination

Hi, bro mutantchicken.. 1st did i offend you in anyway? I'm here juz to make friends and gain knowledge and secondly I think you have mixed up some details which I have written n pls do cross check..
2ndly, my ex gf n current are totally diff person..
3rd if with the ex gf I didn't capped on.. there is a possibility of getting the gal preggy n which I rejected but lately have known dat she already married not long ago wif a teacher.. "the bf" in Vietnam n have bb already now.
4th is sending some pocket moneys abt 400dollar is considered chopped head for my current gf parents? Just top up some money in additional to hers. Buying necessities for her is considered Okay n normal as I don't think requires a very huge amount of money involved.. and bro.. I respect you for yours experience dat u share with us but pls do respect my questions too as I'm not impolite to anyone in replying any questions.. I'm hope all brothers would share some good tips and I'm still have alot of stuffs to learn from you guys..

jackbl
18-09-2014, 12:52 AM
To get the royal treatment, speak a little English
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VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese have recently voiced complaints about discriminatory treatment by service providers, claiming that foreign travelers tend to receive preferential attention.

Vietnamese service providers prefer foreign customers

Some months ago, local newspapers reported that some Vietnamese-owned shops at tourist sites announced that they would only serve foreign visitors.

The owner of a shop explained in a newspaper that Vietnamese customers tend to have annoying habits: they are mean, picky, try to haggle over prices all the time and then leave the shop without buying anything. The woman also stated that only foreigners could afford the items available at her shop.

After receiving heavy criticism from the public, however, the shop owner had to apologize, and pulled the signboard “foreign customers only” down.

However, discriminatory treatment has, time and again, been displayed by many restaurants and hotels.

Phuong, 34, of Hanoi,complained that his honeymoon at a hotel in the coastal city of Nha Trang was not a pleasant experience, at least initially.

“We ordered room service because we felt tired one morning,” he recalled. “But we were not served until one hour later. The waitress displayed a nasty attitude and grumbled ‘they are just normal guests, but they act as if they are VIPs’”.

Phuong was later surprised to see the same waitress acting very caring and polite towards some foreign travelers. The waitress did not answer Phuong when he said he was leaving the room key to go out for half a day, because she was busy talking with the foreigners.

However, Phuong finally found a way to enjoy better service. “We were treated like VIP guests at the dinner of the day, when my wife and I both spoke in English,” he said.

A freelance tour guide in Hanoi reported that a traveler from Can Tho some days ago complained that she could not enter shops in the ancient quarter in Hanoi.

“When I came there one day, the security guard I met said to me that the shop was closed for lunch, though it was 10.30 am,” the traveler said. “When I returned there after three hours, I was told that the working hours would only begin in 30 minutes. It seems that travelers from the south are not welcome in Hanoi”.

“I told her that she was not alone. For shops which specialize in luxury products, not only travelers from the south, but Vietnamese travelers in general are not really welcomed there,” the tour guide said.

Pretending to be foreign travelers

Office workers now whisper in each others’ ears that it would be better to speak English to be able to enjoy good services.

“Servers will think you are a foreigner and you have a lot of money. Therefore, they will be very polite to you,” KN, 37, a worker of an auditing firm, wrote on her Facebook.

“When the waitress asked us (me and my friend, a foreigner) if we need more drinks, I replied “co” (yes), and my friend said “yes”. But only my friend got the drink he ordered, and I did not,” KN related.

KN then realized what she needed to do. She said to another waitress in English that she needed a glass of orange juice and she got what she wanted immediately.

Ngoc Ha

jackbl
23-09-2014, 10:51 PM
Prositution debate hots up in Vietnam

FOR Vietnamese sex workers like Oanh Do Thi, being caught touting for business used to carry a long stint in forced "rehabilitation", but as fines replace detention, many detect a shifting attitude towards the world's oldest profession.

Last year, Vietnam replaced compulsory rehabilitation for sex workers with fines of between US$25 (S$32) and US$100, releasing hundreds of people from detention centres across the country.

Ms Oanh (not her real name), 32, who was held for 18 months in a detention centre, said the legal move points to a wider liberalising attitude towards sex work in the communist nation.

"Society today is much more tolerant of people like me," said Ms Oanh, who has given up prostitution herself but remains in sex work, running a massage parlour in the capital.

Prostitution is illegal in Vietnam, but hundreds of thousands of sex workers ply their trade in a deeply conservative society which is still dominated by Confucian social mores.

Prostitution is considered a social evil, along with drug addiction and homosexuality.

But in recent months, a fierce debate over whether to legalise and regulate the sex industry has sprung up online and in the official press, airing views that have been considered taboo.

Even the National Assembly is due to address the issue at its next session next month.

Researchers estimate that there are around 200,000 sex workers in Vietnam, of whom up to 40 per cent are believed to be HIV positive.

In Ho Chi Minh City, police statistics show there are at least 30,000 establishments linked to the sex trade, with some involving criminal gangs too.

"As we are not able to eradicate prostitution, we will have to manage it," said Khiet Trinh Thi, a Hanoi-based parliamentarian. "We shouldn't encourage the sex trade, but we have to look at this issue in the face. We need to save women from mafia networks."

The debate over how to tackle prostitution, however, remains sharply polarised.

The authorities in Ho Chi Minh City last year proposed experimental "red zones" where prostitution would be allowed or at least tolerated.

But in Hanoi, the authorities have suggested publicly disclosing the names of patrons caught by the police to deter others from buying sex.

Despite high-profile "clean-up" campaigns, prostitutes operate openly along major roads in the city.

While objections to prostitution abound, sociologists urge a pragmatic response to an age-old industry.

"We are totally incapable of controlling prostitution," said Hong Khuat Thu, director of the Institute for Social Development Studies. "We must not penalise it... I support legalisation because it would help to combat trafficking in women."

While Vietnamese children continue to learn in school that the "social evil" of prostitution destroys moral and cultural values , the taboo around sex will remain an obstacle to legalisation.

For now, the government line is that "prostitution cannot be considered a job", according to Hien Le Duc, deputy director in the labour ministry, who is in charge of the fight against vice.

"Legalisation is really a great challenge for us," she said, adding that "this issue is still too sensitive" in Vietnam.

AFP

Jamesharden
25-09-2014, 03:34 PM
Dear Bros,
I will be in HMC and possibly Hanoi next month.
I have tried reading about 40-50 pages but found no info on any clubbing or FL or KTV. Mostly on translation, but am sure all the bros here would know and would appreciate if you all could share on the following:

1) I might be travelling alone, so any good clubs(HMC and Hanoi) that can party or clubs with FL? Appreciate if you could let me know what the damage for short time and long time/ON.

2) if I have friends going(all first timers to Vietnam), we might go to KTVs, any mid level(cheaper but not sleezy or dangerous) ones to recommend?(HMC and Hanoi) Please advise on the damage for drinks and ST and LT as well. Thanks.

Many thanks in advance and also for any tips if needed for a newbie to Vietnam.

Hurricane88
25-09-2014, 03:40 PM
Dear Bros,
I will be in HMC and possibly Hanoi next month.
I have tried reading about 40-50 pages but found no info on any clubbing or FL or KTV. Mostly on translation, but am sure all the bros here would know and would appreciate if you all could share on the following:

Many thanks in advance and also for any tips if needed for a newbie to Vietnam.

you are on the wrong thread...:)

you can click on my signature...HCM Self Help DIY...:)

Hanoi thread clcik here...

http://www.sammyboyforum.com/showthread.php?t=14273

jackbl
26-09-2014, 12:57 AM
Vietnam debates sex work: 'social evil' or legitimate job?
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HANOI – For Vietnamese sex workers like Do Thi Oanh, being caught touting for business used to carry a long stint in forced "rehabilitation", but as fines replace detention, many detect a shifting attitude towards the world's oldest profession.

In 2008, Oanh was sent to a rehabilitation camp on the outskirts of Hanoi, joining hundreds of prostitutes and drug addicts detained for taking part in a "social evil".

The 32-year-old was held for 18 months in the centre where detainees worked for free raising poultry, gardening or making handicrafts.

Last year Vietnam suddenly replaced compulsory rehab for sex workers with fines of between $25 and $100, releasing hundreds of people from centres across the country.

Oanh, whose name has been changed to protect her identity, said the legal move points to a wider liberalising attitude towards sex work in the country.

"I think that society today is much more tolerant with people like me," said Oanh, who has herself given up prostitution but remains in sex work, running a massage parlour in the capital.

Prostitution is illegal in Vietnam, but hundreds of thousands of sex workers ply their trade in a society which is still dominated by Confucian social mores.

Prostitution is considered a social evil, along with drug addiction.

Drug addicts continue to be sent to compulsory rehab.

But in recent months a fierce debate over whether to legalise and regulate the sex industry has sprung up online and in the official press, airing views that were long considered taboo.

Even the National Assembly is due to address the issue at its next session in October.

Brothel boom

Despite decades of official suppression, Vietnam's sex industry has flourished in parallel with the economy since market reforms of the late 1980s opened up the economic system to international trade and investment.

Researchers estimate there are around 200,000 sex workers in Vietnam, full-time or occasional, of whom up to 40 percent are believed to be HIV-positive.

"We should legalise prostitution because it is part of human rights. Everybody has the right to enjoy sex," said sociologist Le Quang Binh.

Legalisation could help "protect sex workers and their clients and bring in revenue for the government through taxes," he added.

In the southern business hub of Ho Chi Minh City, police statistics show there are at least 30,000 establishments linked to the sex trade – from massage parlours and karaoke lounges to actual brothels.

Many popular Vietnamese beach towns even have open brothels operating under the protection of criminal gangs, sometimes with the complicity of corrupt local officials.

"As we are not able to eradicate prostitution, we will have to manage it," said Trinh Thi Khiet, a Hanoi-based parliamentarian.

"We shouldn't encourage the sex trade but we have to look at this issue in the face. We need to save women from mafia networks."

The debate over how to tackle prostitution, however, remains sharply polarized.

Authorities in Ho Chi Minh City last year proposed to implement experimental "red zones" – not yet in place – where prostitution would be allowed or at least tolerated.

But in Hanoi authorities have suggested publicly disclosing the names of punters caught by police to deter others from buying sex.

Despite high-profile "clean-up" campaigns, prostitutes operate openly on major roads in the city, much to the distress of some residents.

Nguyen Thi Hoa, who owns a clothes shop, says she has stopped listening to regular news reports showing "half-naked young girls" arrested in police raids on hotels.

"I see the police arrest prostitutes one day... the next day they're back on the streets... The fight against prostitution has made hardly any progress," she said.

'Too sensitive'

While objections to prostitution abound, sociologists urge a pragmatic response to an age-old industry.

"We are totally incapable of controlling prostitution," said Khuat Thu Hong, director of the Institute for Social Development Studies.

"We have to accept the truth," she said, adding the "oldest profession in the world" would only disappear "when humans no longer exist".

"We must not penalise it... I support legalisation because it would help to combat trafficking in women," she added.

And while Vietnamese children continue to learn in school that the "social evil" of prostitution destroys moral and cultural values, the taboo around sex will remain an obstacle to legalisation.

For now, the government line is that "prostitution cannot be considered a job", according to Le Duc Hien, deputy director in charge of the fight against vices within the labour ministry.

"Legalisation is really a great challenge for us," she said, adding that "this issue is still too sensitive" in Vietnam.

jackbl
28-09-2014, 03:43 PM
Vietnamese embarrassed to buy condoms, see them as cultural taboo
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VietNamNet Bridge - Even though Vietnam ranks first in the world for searches on sex or sexuality on Google, most of its citizens are reluctant to buy condoms.

For example, Tuan, a fourth-year male student at a university in Hanoi, was afraid to step into a pharmacy to buy condoms. Wearing a helmet and facemask, he spoke very softly to the salesperson at the pharmacy, just enough for her to understand what he wanted.

He very quickly received the condom box in a black plastic bag from the seller and hurriedly left the drugstore.

Tuan is not the only one afraid to buy condoms. The majority of Vietnamese still consider condoms a “sensitive” issue. They avoid talking about it and many people still see condoms linked to adultery and prostitution.

In a report released in March 2013, Nguyen Duc Vinh, Deputy Director of the Maternal and Child Health Department of the Ministry of Health, said that a third of Vietnamese people below 18 years old believed that using a condom is "inappropriate" behavior and 16% said condoms are for prostitutes and adulterers only.

According to a study published in the International Journal of Adolescent Medicine and Health in January this year, more than 70 percent of Vietnamese teenagers did not use a condom during their first sexual relationship. And the main reason is because they are afraid to buy condoms.

Teenagers and young people as well as married people see buying condoms at the drugstore a difficult and challenging task.

"Mentioning condoms, they would immediately think about sex. And many Vietnamese often feel shy to mention it publicly," said Mr. Nam, a 32-year-old salesman.

Even condom sellers are afraid to talk about the product. A new study published recently by RMIT Vietnam Institute showed that most of the owners of drugstores in Ho Chi Minh City interviewed by the institute said that condoms were a taboo product.

This study also confirmed that six out of 10 surveyed pharmacies put condoms in locked drawers or did not display them in prominent locations. Most sellers felt ashamed displaying the sensitive products.

"Most retailers are opposed to sell condoms openly in the shop, for fear that this will drive their customers away," said Hai Dang, the author of the above study.

While Vietnam is ranked among the top five countries worldwide with the highest rate of abortion, and the highest rate in Southeast Asia, the majority of Vietnamese people are afraid to buy condoms.

According to Dr. Khuat Thu Hong, from the Institute for Social Research and Development of Vietnam (ISDS), Vietnamese people are afraid to talk about the issue of sex. They are also very shy talking about "related things" such as condoms or birth control pills, especially young people.

Most Vietnamese think that sex is only for married people. Unmarried people often feel they do not have “enough power” to speak about the issue. Even for married people, sex is still a “sensitive” and "difficult" topic to talk about.

According to a study by ISDS, up to 53 percent of Vietnamese respondents said that sex is simply to maintain the family line. Less than 10 percent saw sex as pleasure and personal happiness.

"When they see sex as only to maintain the breed, they are very afraid to buy condoms. Because purchasing condoms is the way people think about sex, meaning that they think about sex as personal pleasure. That makes people very afraid," Dr. Hong analyzed.

The origin of this sentiment, according to Dr. Hong, originates from the culture. Since ancient times, people saw sex as a private matter between two people, something done in the bedroom. And even in the bedroom, sex is still a taboo subject.

"Even among couples, they are also afraid to discuss about sex. They can take action but are afraid to talk about it," Dr. Hong said.

Mr. Nguyen Su, a researcher at the Institute of Religious Issues of Vietnam, noted that for Asian people in general, sex is taboo, which is different from Western culture.

When sex becomes a taboo subject, when the number of counseling centers for sexual health is far fewer than the number of abortion centers and when teachers are afraid to teach sex education, students and young people are forced to seek other sources of information.

A survey by ISDS in 2009 showed that most students said that they got information about sex from their friends and the Internet. This causes many negative consequences because information on the Internet is like a double-edged sword.

"Vietnamese people are struggling between traditional values, which require them to curb sexual life, and a new age, in which they want to be liberated, to live for themselves," Dr. Hong said. This conflict is creating a lot of paradoxes in Vietnam today.

"Sexuality is an instinctive need and it must be fulfilled. Therefore, the need to learn about it is indispensable. This is why the Vietnamese see sexuality as a taboo, but they rank first in the world for searching on the internet about sexuality," said Mr. Su.

Mai Phuong

jackbl
02-10-2014, 12:42 AM
Vietnam experience: Door, sweet door
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Editor’s Note: Stivi Cooke is an Aussie living in Hoi An Ancient Town in central Vietnam.

There are two things you shouldn’t do in Vietnam. Never accept food that you can’t identify, and never tell your landlord that your main living room door is termite-infested and needs replacing.

Had I known it, I would have said nothing and waited another two years until the door frame became an embarrassment that the neighbors would giggle about. The whole adventure speaks volumes about how much more modernizing Vietnam has to do in how things get … sort of done…

I’d noticed it by accident, since the curtains hid the imploding paint job receding into the thick supporting beam. It’s a monster of a door, about three meters wide and four meters high, opening outwards towards my front gate. You could peel off splinters of wood quicker than running the red lights on an old Honda. That was nine months ago.

From time to time some men in blue jackets would turn up to look at the door and mutter strange comments to each other. I love the color schemes; blue jacket with plain pants – local jack of all trades. Blue with matching trousers? They’re usually the government labor force. And my favorite, girls in paisley trousers with white rubber boots – house construction.

“Ooo… it could be a big job.”

“I don’t know about those upper windows…”

I’ve yet to get used to the idea that workmen never seem to have tools. (Tradesmen? You mean like, with real training?) … Of course, no one thought to bring the tape measure.

Tools are expensive, and Vietnamese do tend to think some forms of equipment, such as water pumps carted around the neighborhood in a wheelbarrow from one farm plot to another, are community property. “Can I borrow a screwdriver?” Yeah, sure… I’m the local hardware store, doesn’t everyone know?

The first bunch of dudes stuffed it up brilliantly. Apparently no one thought to measure the inside of the doorway. So when the first version of the frame turned out to be the wrong size, my poor landlord was left sitting there with dark clouds across his face. It was quite a thing to see.

Three months later, I get the phone call. As all expats know, we are the last to know about anything that the Vietnamese are planning.

“Stivi, we do your door.”

“Wow, when?”

“Don’t know – maybe Thursday, maybe Friday, maybe next week!”

Informing people of what is going on seems to be a long-lost soft skill. One of the first cultural concepts I had to learn here was ‘rubber time’ – things simply happen when the critical threshold of people and material has been reached.

I cancelled classes and thought it would be all over in a weekend. No such luck – this was a ‘2020’ project. Friday morning and people are walking through the house as I wake up. No one pays me any attention. With a single ladder, two men and a small hammer rip out the old frame.

Day 2 to day 5: four days of sanding, grinding and banging the brick work for the next frame. My young puppy dogs are grounded. I let them out to annoy the workmen, who are beginning to annoy me. I wish the dogs were older so they could bite hard instead of licking everyone to death.

Work falls into a routine. Arrive – have breakfast, look around, do something, stop for water, look around, more water, work. Stop for lunch at 11:00 am. Sleep on my outside porch. Wander in to ask for some spicy sauce for their rice. Start again at 1:00 pm. More dust, shouting at their phones, giggling at my stuff in the house, stop to ask me to buy more water for them. Continue until about 4:00 pm.

The old doors are nailed across with a plank of wood – great security. I can only thank my lucky stars this is a very safe neighborhood, we rarely get trouble around here as most of the families are inter-related.

Day 7 – frame is in. Day 8 – doors arrive – unsanded and ready to be cut to size. Again, no tape measure, just keep cutting until something fits. I watch in awe. Hinges are not yet fitted and another night with door frames looking like heaven to house thieves.

Again, the workmen laugh at my puppies, chatter a lot about why they are doing it this way to the poor landlord, and seem to take a long time to find tools lying among the wood and plaster mess. That’s another thing – workmen never clean up the mess, why?

The doors took three days to prepare, undercoat, paint and install. People were going over other people’s work, finding faults, making mistakes. It’s another puzzle – why can’t the doors be prepared while the frame is going in? Are they stalling for time and more salary? Multi-tasking is also a mysterious skill it seems.

Finally the doors are in. I spent a day cleaning and taking medicine for my shattered patience. If this is the way they build, I’ll never build a house here – my sanity couldn’t take it.

My neighbors though it was a hoot and loved wandering around my yard just to pass the time with the laborers and drink all my water.

At no stage did I see a spirit level, a written design or plan, and only occasionally a tape measure. Vietnam seems like a “Do it yourself” construction, with little thought of what happens next or the consequences. The door is in… but the walls are not sealed… those termites are laughing their heads. I wonder what will happen in 2020.

Still… I have my door… my sweet door. Sigh.

jackbl
04-10-2014, 12:40 PM
Be careful while walking on the street......

Dramatic police chase in HCMC after thieves snatch foreigners’ bag
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Police in Ho Chi Minh City have arrested two young men who snatched a handbag from two foreigners in downtown District 1 on Friday.

Le Hoang, 27, and Truong Thai Ngoc, 23, were detained yesterday on charges of “property theft by snatching,” pursuant to Article 136 of the Penal Code, the district police said.

Hoang has a previous conviction on charges of murder, while Ngoc has already been convicted of theft.

The victims were both foreigners – a man and a woman – whose names have not been announced.

Around mid-day yesterday, while patrolling on Nguyen Thai Hoc Street in Pham Ngu Lao Ward, a motorcycle police team followed two suspicious men on a motorbike.

When they reached the intersection of Nguyen Thai Hoc and Pham Ngu Lao Street, the two men approached the foreigners who were walking together, and Ngoc snatched a bag from the woman.

Hoang then sped away while the police team pursued them.

During the chase, Ngoc threw his helmet at the police officers, while Hoang continued at full speed.

One of the officers fired a shot into the air to warn them. Hoang then slowed down so Ngoc could get off the bike and run towards 23/9 Park with the bag in his hands.

The officers continued to pursue both thieves and, with the help of passers-by, arrested Ngoc in the park.

Meanwhile, other officers caught up with Hoang and kicked him off the bike. Hoang tried to run away, but he was caught as well.

jackbl
04-10-2014, 12:43 PM
Vietnam police nab cabby for snatching phone from Finnish tourist
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A young taxi driver in Hanoi was put Thursday night in police custody for snatching a mobile phone from a Finnish woman after failing to overcharge her and her husband earlier the same day.

The capital city’s police arrested 23-year-old Nguyen Xuan Viet, hailing from northern Phu Tho Province, a taxi driver at Hanoi-based Bac A Taxi Company, at 8:45 pm after he took away an iPhone 5 from Mrs. Mari Susanna, 48, a Finnish national in Tay Ho District.

The foreign woman and her husband, who stayed at a hotel in the district, earlier took a taxi cab with number plate 30A-203.37, driven by Viet, from Hai Ba Trung Street in Hoan Kiem District to Nghi Tam Street in Tay Ho.

Upon arrival at the destination, Viet asked his foreign guests to pay him a charge of VND200,000 (US$9.4) while the taximeter on the cab showed a much lower amount: VND80,000 ($3.8).

The Finnish nationals refused to pay the requested charge, and eventually got off the cab and walked along the street.

Viet then drove his cab alongside the foreigners and suddenly snatched an iPhone 5s from the hand of Mrs. Mari Susanna.

Viet sped up and fled while the foreign woman and her husband were shouting loudly for help.

A patrol police team of Tay Ho District, with the support of some local residents, pursued the dishonest cabbie and arrested him soon later.

Police recovered the phone to return it to Mrs. Mari.

jackbl
05-10-2014, 12:29 AM
Hanoi formally opens 6 more walking streets in Old Quarter
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After a six-month pilot project, authorities in Hanoi officially opened six more pedestrian zones in its famous Old Quarter on Friday to serve local people and foreign visitors in an effort to allow local artisans, households, and enterprises to better tap the old streets’ tourism.

The walking streets include Hang Buom, Ma May, Hang Giay, Luong Ngoc Quyen, Ta Hien and Dao Duy Tu located in Hoan Kiem District.

Pedestrian-only hours start from 7:00 pm to 12:00 pm in the summer and from 6:00 pm to 12:00 pm in the winter every Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

These six streets are among the pedestrian zones to be preserved for retaining much of their antiquity. The three other walking streets in the Old Quarter are Hang Dao, Hang Duong, and Dong Xuan.

Unlike the Hang Dao, Hang Duong and Dong Xuan, peddling on the roadbeds of the new six walking streets is strictly forbidden. Peddlers and shop owners along these six can do their business on the sidewalk only.

Among the six walking streets, Ta Hien, dubbed the city’s “international intersection,” is invariably packed with foreign tourists and expats, particularly in the evening.

Hoan Kiem District’s 2013 statistics show that the city’s Old Quarter had the population of some 10,000, most of whom depend on tourism service provision for their livelihood.

Roughly 240 households in the area run shops, including 100 restaurants and eateries.

Houses built in the 18th and 19th centuries as well as several cultural, historical relics including Bach Ma, Quan De, Huong Tuong, Kim Ngan and Dong Lac Temples now line these streets, which are generally frequented by foreigners.

A local company has installed decorative lights and high pressure lights along the six streets and improved the lighting system at the relics located alongside.

Local government has also licensed seven parking lots measuring some 648m² in total in the Old Quarter. Tourists can also park their bikes at 12 other official lots which have been in use for the Hang Dao, Hang Duong and Dong Xuan walking streets.

jackbl
06-10-2014, 11:56 PM
Foreign delicacies become street food in Vietnam
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Popular foreign specialties such as German sausage, American and Thai barbecue, Spanish sweet egg custard, and Japanese baked cuttlefish cakes are now available as street food for Vietnamese people.

Notably, they are prepared and processed in the genuine style of their original countries and sold along streets in major cities like Ho Chi Minh City by ‘foreign natives,’ who are obviously Westerners in appearance, but native in their lifestyle.

Previously, these types of dishes were often displayed in expensive restaurants, but they can now be bought on the street for a reasonable price.

'We don’t make it look expensive'

First up is the barbecued pork chop at the Ut Ut ‘street restaurant,’ located at 168 Vo Van Kiet Avenue in District 1, which is open from 4:00 pm every day.

Guests sit in small wooden chairs at low tables on the open space of the sidewalk of the avenue, looking out over Ben Nghe Canal.

The address is a favorite haunt of both locals and expats living in the city, with prices ranging from VND30,000-300,000 (US$1.5-15) per dish. Though it serves foreign food, locals account for as many as 80 percent of the customers.

Barbecued pork chops are prepared in the small garden in front of the restaurant, making it look like an outdoor BBQ party. Beer is the only thing not made in the garden.

The only problem is the crowd: It is common to see up to 30 guests standing in line for a table.

Albin Deforges, a French cook and one of three owners of Ut Ut, said, “We target locals, not foreigners, as our main customers. So we build this restaurant to serve American style BBQ in the Vietnamese atmosphere.”

The more it looks like a common food shop, the better it is, Deforges said.

“We don’t make it look expensive,” added the Frenchman, who has lived in Vietnam for over ten years.

He said he knows baked meat is a favorite dish of Vietnamese.

A guest named Nguyen Cong Nhat, 40, said while waiting for a table at Ut Ut, “Actually, I am not used to standing in line to wait like this, for there are many options for food in this city.

“But queuing up here is like one of the specialties of this restaurant.”

German sausage

This street food specialty has become a breakfast staple for many people commuting on Hoang Dieu Street in District 4.

It is served by Dieter Engele, a 57-year-old German, whose ‘restaurant’ is entirely contained on a motorbike.

He is available from 6:00 am on a corner of the kilometer-long street.

The sausage is baked on an oven attached to the end of his motorbike. The prices and illustrated images of his food are all listed on a small sheet of A4 paper.

Bread is kept in a glass cabinet on the bike seat.

“A loaf of bread with German sausage inside is 25,000 dong [over US$1 dollar]. It is delicious,” said Lan Phuong, who often drives her child to Van Don, a nearby school.

“And he looks nice, and doesn’t speak a lot, so I like him and want to support him,” she added.

Standing at the street corner from 6:00 in the morning till 8:00 in the evening, Engele sells 70-100 loaves of bread a day.

As with other vendors in the city, he worries about his business, “It’s miserable if it rains. No clients. On rainy days, I have rice with sausage.”

Engele speaks German and Vietnamese, and is originally from Berlin, where he sold flowers.

“In 2003, I came here for the first time, and love this city.

“I came back in 2013 and now I have a girlfriend here so I just wanted to start a business here by selling sausage.”

He added that he wants to stay in Vietnam all his life and sell sausage – a famous German specialty all over the world.

Another German, Klaus Rutt, 44, has built a restaurant that serves the trademark Vua Xúc Xích (Sausage King). His eatery is called Leon King, in Binh Thanh District.

Rutt and his wife, Minh Nguyet, a Vietnamese woman, started building the Leon King brand name two years ago. All of the materials used to produce their sausage are imported from Germany.

Although his products have been wholesaled at restaurants and shops across Ho Chi Minh City, Rutt still prefers selling sausage from his truck on a corner of Phan Xich Long Street in Phu Nhuan District from 3:00 pm to 9:00 pm.

jackbl
08-10-2014, 01:51 AM
Muslim tourists flock to Vietnam for delicious food, cheap prices
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More and more Muslim tourists have chosen to visit Vietnam on account of delectable food and cheap prices, with airlines from the Middle East offering direct services to the Southeast Asian country and Vietnamese restaurants improvising to serve their special diners.

The Muslim tourists mostly come from Indonesia, Malaysia, India, and the Middle East.

One day, a Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper reporter followed a group of Muslim visitors from Indonesia, a country where 90 percent of the population practices Islam.

Most of the tourists have visited Vietnam more than once.

Affordable goods, delicious food

The majority of the Indonesian tourists said that they love Vietnam because of its high quality, affordable products, and flavorful food.

An Indonesian man, who was waiting for a car in front of a hotel in District 1, Ho Chi Minh City with a group of people, decided to pay VND100,000 (US$4.72) for a wallet from a peddler.

The man immediately put his money and cards from his old wallet into the new one.

Sartina Kendari from Sulawesi Tenggara, a province of Indonesia, said that she bought some T-shirts at Ben Thanh Market in District 1 on her first day in Vietnam.

“A T-shirt here costs only VND400,000 ($18.83). In Indonesia we couldn’t buy such good-looking T-shirts at this price,” the woman said.

Yanti Makassar, another Indonesian who visited My Tho City, in the Mekong Delta, said that she loves Vietnam more than other countries she has traveled to because it is a good shopping venue, in addition to its beautiful landscapes and delicious food.

Makassar, who has visited Vietnam a few times, added that she even had to buy extra suitcases to fit all the clothes she has bought here.

Nguyen Xuan Thinh, a guide at a tourism firm in Ho Chi Minh City, said that the number of Muslim tourists from Indonesia and Malaysia has risen rapidly in recent years.

Five to six Indonesian tourist groups arrive in Vietnam each month, together with several others from Malaysia, Thinh said.

The Muslim visitors from Indonesia love buying items such as clothes, bags, and cloths at Ben Thanh Market and Saigon Square Center, a small shopping mall in District 1.

They also prefer “banh pia,” a Vietnamese cake filled with durian, shredded lard, salted egg yolk, mung bean paste, and coconut.

“They buy a lot of ‘banh pia’ during their time in Vietnam. They often buy around 10 pockets of ‘banh pia’ each time, but sometimes a person can buy 40 pockets,” Thinh shared.

Vietnamese hospitality

Lam Duy Phong, the owner of a candy factory in My Tho, was seen introducing, serving and selling his durian-flavored candies to tourists in Indonesian. Phong said he learned the language from tour guides to communicate better with his customers.

“Most of the Muslim visitors like candies, so being able to speak their language could facilitate my sales,” Phong said.

Vietnamese restaurants have also put forth great effort to serve Muslims.

Bach Tung Vien, a restaurant in My Tho, has put aside not only an eating area that uses separate drinking glasses, bowls, chopsticks, spoons, and utensils for Muslims but also a praying space in accordance with the minimum standards of their religion, although the food is not Halal, a certificate indicating that food meets Islamic dietary codes.

Pham Thi Bach Tuyet, a restaurant representative, said that they never serve pork in the designated area, and sometimes they help customers order food from eateries in Ho Chi Minh City – about 70km away – that have Halal certificates.

“The number of Muslim tourists has soared in the last three years. We are finding chefs who can cook meals following the Halal requirements, and are trying to get the certificate,” Tuyet said.

The restaurant also serves such fish plates as ca kho to (fish braised in a clay pot), ca tai tuong chien xu (deep fried gourami fish), and canh chua ca dieu hong (Vietnamese sour fish soup) to Muslim visitors.

Yanti Makassar told Tuoi Tre that Muslim people are not allowed to eat pork, so she and her friends really like fish dishes.

Vietnam – A shopping paradise

La Quoc Khanh, deputy director of the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Culture, Sports, and Tourism, said that the number of tourists from Muslim countries, especially Indonesia and Malaysia, has gone up considerably in recent years.

“When I talked to 17 Malaysian tourism firms in Kuala Lumpur the other day, they told me that Vietnam is a safe destination and also a shopping paradise, as the goods are cheap, catchy, and easy to buy,” Khanh said.

Most Indonesian and Malaysian tourism firms have said that tourists choose to visit Vietnam because the country offers affordable tours and commodity prices that fit their budget.

Many carriers from the Middle East – including Emirates, Etihad, Qatar Airways, and Turkish Airlines – have opened direct routes to Vietnam, helping to raise the number of Muslim tourist arrivals to the Southeast Asian nation.

A representative from Vietnamese tourism firm Saigontourist said Qatar Airways has even established a division specializing in serving Muslim tourists in Vietnam.

Dato’ Syed Mohd Razif Al Yahya, a representative of Malaysian tourism corporation Sutra, observed that Muslim tourists create a potential market for Vietnam and many other countries, as the Muslim population in the Asia-Pacific region is now more than 972 million people.

“Vietnam is currently considered one of Muslim tourists’ ideal tourism destinations. There will be more restaurants, hotels, and tours that mainly serve this type of customers in the near future,” the Malaysian said.

jackbl
10-10-2014, 01:35 AM
Things are too cheap in Vietnam: American expat
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Editor’s Note: Scott Duke Harris is a former Los Angeles Times and San Jose Mercury News reporter. He now lives in Hanoi.

HANOI – Every few months I have reason to visit a small photocopy shop in the Tay Ho neighborhood, a haven for affluent expats. There are usually two people on the job, one of whom will help me print something out from my laptop, or simply make copies of documents like passports and visas.

Not exactly a computer wiz, I sometimes need a bit of help. The other day the young clerk with very limited English spent a few minutes helping me. When I asked for the price, he said what sounded like “Thirty.”

Thirty thousand dong? For two seconds I was stunned – then realized he didn’t mean what I had heard. I handed him a 5,000 dong note and he gave me 2,000 in change. So it cost me less than 15 cents. For a larger job, the cost per copy would have gone down.

Once again I left wondering how this shop stays in business. I rarely see other customers. Whatever revenue it earns has to cover salaries, equipment, maintenance, paper, electricity and probably rent as well. Just another of the many mysteries of Vietnam’s “emerging economy,” as the wonks put it.

That Vietnam has a low cost of living is not exactly news. It’s all relative, of course. Well-traveled foreigners find it quite affordable, but the Vietnamese don’t – except, presumably, for the wealthiest cadres who might ride around in Rolls Royces and Bentleys. While the denizens at Vincom’s new shopping malls reflect the rising prosperity of the middle-class, it’s been less than four years since the World Bank re-classified Vietnam from “low income” to “middle income” status – if just barely. Conspicuous consumption is the exception, not the rule. More conspicuous are the thousands of women who eke out a living shouldering their yoke-like ganhs carrying fruit or other goods for sale.

Strange, but the first Vietnamese phrase I learned was “Dat qua!” This means “too expensive!” Before my first visit to Vietnam in 1999, the woman who would become my wife instructed me to say this, with an emphatic expression and gestures, whenever a merchant quoted me a price. She figured I’d get fleeced at every turn. Haggling was essential, and I still use the phrase from time to time. I am usually rewarded with a smile, a laugh, and a modest discount.

I’m wary of rip-offs, and I know expats who complain about “the white guy price.” But more often I find myself puzzling over why so much of life in Vietnam is inexpensive. (Am I tempted to blurt out, “Khong dat qua!” and offer to pay more? Heck no.)

Lunch is a case in point. The other day I stopped at a typical storefront eatery specializing in bun bo Hue [beef noodles served the way cooks in the central city of Hue do], opting for the heftier 40,000 version. I’m guessing the extra 10,000 was for the extra helping of gelatinous blocks of boiled blood. Forty thousand VND is less than $2. At a Vietnamese greasy spoon in California that same bowl might cost $5 or $6 – or $8 in a more upscale restaurant. And while I’d be expected to leave a 15% tip back home, here the expectation is zero.

Zip. Nada. Khong.

There is no culture of tipping in Vietnam, but expats like to say there is also not much service. This strikes me as harsh. There can be crappy service anywhere, and when I call out “Em oi” here with a request I’m rarely disappointed. This is true of my favorite neighborhood bistro. It offers a wide menu but I usually opt for pho ga [noodle soup with chicken] or bun ca nam bo [vermicelli soup with fish prepared in the southern style]. Its prices are a notch up from street food, but for 30,000 to 45,000 dong I also get a pleasant open-air ambience under a thatched roof or a patio festooned with umbrellas. Electric fans may add to the comfort, as does the complimentary iced tea. Business at this place has been so brisk lately, with both expats and locals, that I fear they will increase their prices.

That’s what would happen in most overtly capitalist societies, where the pricing ethos is to “charge what the market will bear” – to find that sweet spot that maximizes profit. Vietnamese seem to have a different approach to determining a “fair” price. Another notion that seems foreign to the Vietnamese is one of Benjamin Franklin’s aphorisms: “Time is money.” When’s the last time you told a cabbie here to wait and keep the meter running?

Motorcycle repairs, in my experience, have also been cheaper-than-expected – though I might be fortunate. I’ve also had good luck with laptop repairs. What else? Bia hoi [fresh beer] is cheaper than bottled water. Tailors tend to be reasonable, and so do movers of things large and small. Picture framing, I’m told, is strikingly inexpensive.

Why is Vietnam’s economy the way it is? One theory is that the Vietnamese have been slow to shed their old spirit a full generation after authorities introduced Doi Moi [Renovation] reforms to gradually move to a market-oriented economy. But doesn’t this put the load below the motorbike? Vietnam’s embrace of its ideology emerged amid the clash between the exploitive values of Western colonials and the humbler values rooted in 4,000 years of village life, enhanced with the teachings of Buddha and Confucius.

Occasionally I visit temples and marvel and wonder why altars are often decorated with little pyramids formed from cans of Coca-Cola and Heineken. I also puzzle over Vietnamese who spend hard-earned money to buy a stack of fake $100 notes that bear the image of none other than Ben Franklin. These bogus “Benjamins,” to use American street slang, are burnt as offerings to ancestors.

So if “time is money,” my Western brain wonders what to make of the Benjamins going up in smoke.

Easy come, easy go?

jackbl
13-10-2014, 01:04 AM
HCM City ranked the among world’s 18 best food cities
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VietNamNet Bridge – The travel website Thrillist has recently published an article ranking the 18 best food cities in the world, which includes HCM City.

According to the authors, Kevin Alexander and Liz Childers, a good choice for visitors to HCM City looking for a good breakfast banh mi with fried egg, bun thit nuong (noodle with roast meat) or the soft-shell crab at Cųc Gąch Quan in District 1.

The other cities honoured enough to be put on the best food cities list included Bordeaux, France; Bologna, Italy; Bombay, India; London, England; New York City, USA; Marrakesh, Morocco; Cartagena, Colombia; Istanbul, Turkey; Tokyo, Japan.

The list also gave honourable mentions to other cities, such as Barcelona, Hong Kong, Chin and Montreal.

In a recent article in Huffington Post, Squires praised HCM City as among top 10 fall trips for food lovers.

“Some say that sampling street food is a national sport in Vietnam. That's because of the vast quality and variety available in the market stalls, street carts, and river banks day and night. Saigon Street Eats takes travelers to Ho Chi Minh City's best-kept secrets, from pho palaces to coffee houses to streets lined with shellfish. Snackers at the end of this tour not only end up sated, but leave with a new vocabulary of Vietnam's victuals,” Squires gushed.

DTriNews/VNN

jackbl
14-10-2014, 01:24 AM
Interesting shopping addresses in Saigon
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VietNamNet Bridge - In addition to historic architecture, unique street food, busy shopping areas have also attracted a large number of tourists in Saigon.


Ben Thanh Market

Located in the heart of District 1, Ben Thanh Market is one of the earliest surviving structures in Saigon and one of the symbols of HCM City, popular with tourists seeking local handicrafts, textiles, áo dài and souvenirs, as well as local cuisine.

Built in 1870 by the French, the market was initially called Les Halles Centrales before being renamed Ben Thanh in 1912.

From a wet market created by street vendors in the early 17th century, Ben Thanh has experienced many ups and downs throughout it’s history, and is now the oldest surviving market and one of the symbols of Ho Chi Minh city. That makes it a must for any visitors travelling to this 300-year-old city.

Today, because the market possesses one of the most crucial locations in District 1 (the intersection of Le Loi, Ham Nghi, Tran Hung Dao Avenues and Le Lai streets), transportation is extremely convenient and trade is bustling.

In the morning, you can find almost everything from dry food to clothes for a reasonable price. The market atmosphere can sometime be a real hustle and bustle, but it is an exciting experience after all. However, always remember that bargaining is a must in any Vietnamese market.

Ben Thanh is firstly well-known as the place for real Vietnamese food. There a number of vendors and food stalls that offer dishes freshly made to order. Here, one can taste various kinds of local dishes like banh xeo, banh cuon, banh beo, cha gio, and hu tiu.

In the evening, while all stalls inside the market are closed, sidewalk restaurants around the market are open, making it an extraordinary lively area.

One of the most recommended foods by tourists is deep fried whole fish, so remember to try it at least once when you dine here. Besides, one can also taste seafood and enjoy cool beer for only US$1-2.

Curious about what the locals eat, wear or use daily? Just come here and find out the answer. From clothing, shoes, bags, jewelry to kitchenware, grocery, sweets, and great Vietnamese coffee, everything that Saigonese need for their daily life can be found here.

Taking a look at things for sale here, seeing how people make transactions and the kind of goods locals purchase, one can learn much about the local life and get useful experience for shopping in Vietnam. For people keen on shopping, here is exactly the place you are looking for.

Besides goods for daily use, tourists can find a variety of eye-catching local handicrafts and souvenirs. Cute fridge magnets or delicate small pieces of lacquer are good gifts for friends and family at home or reminders of your trip in Ho Chi Minh City.

Though quality of goods is quite good, prices here are often inflated up to two or three times. Hence, one should go at least three or four stalls to compare prices, and see how cheap you can bargain the items down to.

Another tip is go shopping in the market before 8am for the “morning price” that is a little lower than the usual for the same good.

The “cool” price at the beginning of the day is for easier first transactions which are believed to bring good luck to the sellers for the rest of the day.



Binh Tay Market

Binh Tay Market is the central market of Cho Lon, the Chinese district in Saigon. A mix of French and Chinese architecture, this market, built in 1928, is the largest in Ho Chi Minh City, spanning four blocks.

The new market was built by a Chinese businessman after the old location burned to the ground. A memorial to the founder is still present today. Shop for everything from fermented duck eggs to flip-flops to seafood noodle soup at Binh Tay Market.

Located in HCMC's Chinatown area, Binh Tay Market is less visited and far less tourist-infested than iconic Ben Thanh Market in central Saigon.

Divided into sections, the market has something for everyone. Pick up kitchenware, cloth, candied goods, plastic gimcracks, whatnots, plus a whole lot more. Don't expect the hard sales pitch at Binh Tay. For every vendor doing math on a portable calculator, chances are good there's another snoozing away in a hastily erected hammock.

Many businesses and restaurants buy their produce wholesale here.


Where to buy goods:

* Suitcases, bags: If you need suitcases for travel or a few fashion bags, you should go to Le Lai Street, District 1. There are many kinds, which are nice, unique and of good quality. It is just 20 meters from Ben Thanh Market.

* Clothing: You are a fashion enthusiast and you want to buy stylish clothes? Saigon Square is a suitable destination. This shopping mall offers clothes and bags, from ordinary to luxury goods. As the prices are unlisted, you should bargain before deciding to buy. Nguyen Trai Street is also an interesting destination for clothes shopping.

* Paintings: If you are looking for some paintings to decorate your house, you are advised to visit Tran Phu Street, District 5. There are many painting stores here, where you can easily find pictures and paintings of all genres or the copies of famous paintings.

* Shoes, sandals: There are two addresses. If you like fashionable and high-quality footwear, you should go to Ly Chinh Thang Street, District 3, home to the most famous footwear brands of Saigon. Located to the left of Ben Thanh Market, Luu Van Lang Street, District 1 is also the center of shoes and sandals for tourists. Coming here you can find the best flip-flops or footwear for children.

* Cloth: If you want to find beautiful cloth as gifts or to sew traditional ao dai, you should go to Soai Kinh Lam Market.

* Antiques: Le Cong Kieu Street, District 1 is considered Saigon’s street of antiques, where you can buy bronze items like incense burners, altars or Buddha statues, old porcelain products and also old stamps and coins.

Pha Le

KangTuo
14-10-2014, 01:26 AM
There is a Aeon Mall... very impressive :)

jackbl
15-10-2014, 11:56 PM
Locked iPhone 6 in big demand in Vietnam
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VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese Apple fans have been able to purchase iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus smartphones, just two weeks after the products hit the market.

However, the products were brought to Vietnam through unofficial channels, either by foreign travelers to Vietnam or Vietnamese individuals for domestic sale. The product from authorised sources will be available in November.

Buyers have been looking for the locked-version products, despite high prices of VND15-16.5 million for products sourced from the US and VND14-14.5 million from Japan for iPhone 6 and VND18 million for iPhone 6 Plus.

Hoang Trung Thanh, the salesman of a mobile phone shop in Hanoi, said the locked iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus now available in the market are from two main markets, the US and Japan.

Thanh said the products sourced from the US were always more expensive, because of the high price of the code to unlock iPhone 6 in the US, about $90, or VND2 million.

Meanwhile, those who buy the products sourced from Japan have to unlock the phones with the heicard nano-sim, because it is still impossible to do this with normal code.

According to Thanh, consumers have to spend VND1.7-2.5 million to unlock an iPhone 6 with code.

Tuan, the owner of a shop providing unlock and jailbreak services, said the heicard nano-sims to unlock iPhone 6 were available in the domestic market last week. The presence of the key has encouraged traders to bring more locked-versions iPhone 6 to Vietnam.

According to Tuan, this nano-sim card can be bought for only VND300,000. If someone buys a Japan-sourced iPhone 6, either from Docomo or Softbank, the expense would be VND15 million only.

However, if they buy the international version, they will have to pay VND18 million.

He went on to say that the latest-generation nano-sims are made with high technology, so they can fix most of the problems in locked versions. Locked products are safer and cheaper.

“Once the jailbreak version for iOS 8 comes out, the users can download the software which can completely fix the problems of the locked version. So the locked version will be nearly the same as the international version,” he said.

Observers say there are more iPhone 6 devices than iPhone 6 Plus devices because dealers thought the iPhone 6 Plus was too expensive and would not sell well in Vietnam. Vietnamese also prefer 64GB and 128GB to 16GB versions.

One year ago, when Apple launched the iPhone 5S, Vietnamese had to wait for a long time to be able to buy the products. Only in December 2013 did the mobile network operators loosen regulations on selling the code to unlock the iPhone 5S. The nano-sim finally began running well on iOS 7 that month also.

damong777
19-10-2014, 04:44 PM
Was asked by Jackbl on how did i learn TV

Quite painful and funny...but that what you get for trying to learn without paying for a teacher and thinking it is easy to pick up (that was my thought at first and how wrong it was:p:p)

Enjoy...

1) read through pages here and copy and paste all tv verses in self help dictionary; dun quite understand wordings and meaning. Keeping asking H88 for help till he pissed
2) As advised by some bro, go online e.g. youtube and learn from videos...not really successful since no one to correct pronunciation.
3) First vb did not want to teach me tieng viet as scared i go xao more con gai so failure too
4) decided to buy language books to read up and take H88 advise on learning 5 words a day
5) Add numerous con gai on fb and wechat for practicing writing first (on going). Make a point to write in tv even if they ask me to write in english, chinese or voice message. Just ignore. And be thick skinned
6) Met my current vb gf. Every talk video chat with her and make it a point to speak in tv since she does not understand English or chinese (another thing i learn, better a vb who not corrupt yet). And at least learn one new word a day.
7) Try not using google transit. Even if i write wrongly now, she or other con gai would correct for me. So ongoing process


Honestly speaking tv still sucks (worse than pre school standard there), but writing and understanding basic sentences getting better daily.

Practice make prefect.

singlun
22-10-2014, 01:34 AM
Was asked by Jackbl on how did i learn TV

Quite painful and funny...but that what you get for trying to learn without paying for a teacher and thinking it is easy to pick up (that was my thought at first and how wrong it was:p:p)

Enjoy...

1) read through pages here and copy and paste all tv verses in self help dictionary; dun quite understand wordings and meaning. Keeping asking H88 for help till he pissed
2) As advised by some bro, go online e.g. youtube and learn from videos...not really successful since no one to correct pronunciation.
3) First vb did not want to teach me tieng viet as scared i go xao more con gai so failure too
4) decided to buy language books to read up and take H88 advise on learning 5 words a day
5) Add numerous con gai on fb and wechat for practicing writing first (on going). Make a point to write in tv even if they ask me to write in english, chinese or voice message. Just ignore. And be thick skinned
6) Met my current vb gf. Every talk video chat with her and make it a point to speak in tv since she does not understand English or chinese (another thing i learn, better a vb who not corrupt yet). And at least learn one new word a day.
7) Try not using google transit. Even if i write wrongly now, she or other con gai would correct for me. So ongoing process


Honestly speaking tv still sucks (worse than pre school standard there), but writing and understanding basic sentences getting better daily.

Practice make prefect.

So the key to success is to make H88 pissed ? Ha ha ha
I feel that the phasing and sequence of the language is similar to mandarin... how about you ?

jackbl
22-10-2014, 11:38 PM
I feel that the phasing and sequence of the language is similar to mandarin... how about you ?

One example of Sequence is : My friend. In vn they say Ban Toi.... so what you think???

damong777
23-10-2014, 04:00 PM
So the key to success is to make H88 pissed ? Ha ha ha
I feel that the phasing and sequence of the language is similar to mandarin... how about you ?

Make h88 pissed no good. He is a great teacher if you have met him. Is just he hates people who waste his time.

Not really same phasing and sequence. They had borrowed elements from Chinese and French, but tv is in their style. Sometimes I still get chided by my gal for saying it wrongly. But you learn :)

miumiu6464
23-10-2014, 05:04 PM
So the key to success is to make H88 pissed ? Ha ha ha
I feel that the phasing and sequence of the language is similar to mandarin... how about you ?

Nope. . More like its more similar to Malay. .

姐姐我 - chi cua toi - kak aku

Hurricane88
23-10-2014, 06:53 PM
So the key to success is to make H88 pissed ? Ha ha ha
I feel that the phasing and sequence of the language is similar to mandarin... how about you ?

haha...pissed me off ha...:p

to me I switch off all language and never think Tieng Viet similar to any...I learned to write and read first before I learned pronounce...then I try to use the words often so I dun forget...try to speak to local Vietnamese often...refused to speak to any Viets trying to speak to me in English, Mandarin or Cantonese...best opportunity to learn Tieng Viet from them...:)

volcano
23-10-2014, 11:41 PM
So the key to success is to make H88 pissed ? Ha ha ha
I feel that the phasing and sequence of the language is similar to mandarin... how about you ?


it is some how a bit similar to how Malaysians speak Mandarin

speaking TV is easy...many foreigners always "wow" when they heard i speak TV...i would say my TV standard easily pass of as a Vietnamese Chinese...

nowadays,first time met Vietnamese will only ask if i am a Chinese and not where am i from.

but when i speak with my wife's family members and relatives...there will still be many phrases where i dont understand...and these words are where only local Vietnamese speak and understand.

still a long long way to go in order to master the language....haizzzz....:(

jackbl
24-10-2014, 12:29 AM
speaking TV is easy...many foreigners always "wow" when they heard i speak TV...i would say my TV standard easily pass of as a Vietnamese Chinese...

You stayed there, how not to speak like them???

Many vb told me their "bf" speak vietnamese well too :D

pting
24-10-2014, 08:38 AM
Hi Jackbl,

Thanks for your generous 13pt upz. Due to my limited knowledge could not contribute much to your thread.
But my VN fren help me write a few basic sentence to pick up girls. Hope it could be helpful for some.

1 gio bao nhieu tien - 1 hour how much?

co qua dem ko - Do you do overnight?
(Rely: co - yes, ko -No)

qua dem bao nhieu - Overnight how much?

ca dem co giam gia ko - Book whole night have discount?

Did you see the aunties worn the blouse and pant the same color and patter, that reminds me of my grandmother wearing that 30years ago..... :(

volcano
24-10-2014, 01:20 PM
You stayed there, how not to speak like them???

Many vb told me their "bf" speak vietnamese well too :D


dun be surprise that many have been staying here for more then 10 years but dont speak TV

as i mention before..its easy to speak TV...but difficult to speak like a Viet in their style...:o

KangTuo
24-10-2014, 01:33 PM
ca dem co giam gia ko - Book whole night have discount?

Overnight discount? :confused:

pting
24-10-2014, 09:43 PM
Overnight discount? :confused:

I mean after FL quote the overnight rate, msg her this if want try neg. for better price. It will be nice if u can add any suggestion or useful neg. sentence for cheongster like me as i only know this 4 sentence.:D

Thanks

damong777
25-10-2014, 01:45 PM
sau em co di khach san? later you can go hotel?

sau em muon di an voi anh? later want go eat with me?

co dam tac em?

actually to how explain dam tac in english?

Em bao nhieu tuoi? how old are you?

Em co noi english hoac chinese? you can speak english or chinese

Em co khach bao nhieu? how many customers you have?

Some phrases which my friends used in ktv talking to con gai

damong777
25-10-2014, 01:46 PM
Overnight discount? :confused:

package deal: sit with me whole night plus overnight so should have discount

damong777
25-10-2014, 01:47 PM
I mean after FL quote the overnight rate, msg her this if want try neg. for better price. It will be nice if u can add any suggestion or useful neg. sentence for cheongster like me as i only know this 4 sentence.:D

Thanks

4 powerful sentence ady bro

my fav phrase now is anh het dam tac con trai ko het con gai

volcano
25-10-2014, 07:29 PM
sau em co di khach san? later you can go hotel?

sau em muon di an voi anh? later want go eat with me?

co dam tac em?

actually to how explain dam tac in english?

Em bao nhieu tuoi? how old are you?

Em co noi english hoac chinese? you can speak english or chinese

Em co khach bao nhieu? how many customers you have?

Some phrases which my friends used in ktv talking to con gai


for the first 3 phrase..have to add a "khong" on the last.

"dam tac" is 好色

it shld be "em co bao nhieu khach"

KangTuo
25-10-2014, 08:39 PM
4 powerful sentence ady bro

my fav phrase now is anh het dam tac con trai ko het con gai

Blur... :confused::confused::confused:

KangTuo
25-10-2014, 08:41 PM
sau em co di khach san? later you can go hotel?

sau em muon di an voi anh? later want go eat with me?

co dam tac em?

actually to how explain dam tac in english?

Em bao nhieu tuoi? how old are you?

Em co noi english hoac chinese? you can speak english or chinese

Em co khach bao nhieu? how many customers you have?

Some phrases which my friends used in ktv talking to con gai

English = tieng anh
Chinese = tieng hoa

jackbl
25-10-2014, 11:50 PM
my fav phrase now is anh het dam tac con trai ko het con gai

Is the above having typo? het --> thich???

jackbl
25-10-2014, 11:52 PM
as i mention before..its easy to speak TV...but difficult to speak like a Viet in their style...:o

Dun need speak in their style la..... as long as they understand u can liao :D

jackbl
25-10-2014, 11:59 PM
1 gio bao nhieu tien - 1 hour how much?

i would say my TV standard easily pass of as a Vietnamese Chinese...

Mr Volcano, may I seek your advice on the above sentence? about the word "hour", is there a better word than "gio"?

KangTuo
26-10-2014, 12:06 AM
Mr Volcano, may I seek your advice on the above sentence? about the word "hour", is there a better word than "gio"?

Why no ask me.... Tieng

jackbl
26-10-2014, 12:19 AM
Why no ask me.... Tieng

He say his TV is of vietnamese chinese standard ma :)

Pools performed badly again, dare not disturb u :D

pting
26-10-2014, 01:39 AM
"dam tac" is 好色


Thanks, at least i know what he mean by " dam tac". I catch no balls.:D

sau em co di khach san? later you can go hotel?
i

Thanks for upz but cannot return upz because upz u before for KSP address.
Nice addition for KTV cheongster but i seldom go KTV, more interested to get FL girl to my room then use international sex language to finish off the job..:D

volcano
26-10-2014, 02:49 AM
Mr Volcano, may I seek your advice on the above sentence? about the word "hour", is there a better word than "gio"?


KT already answer u

but in the circle of WL and FL...i doubt they will say di 1 tieng or di 1 gio....usually they will say "di ve lien"

Hurricane88
26-10-2014, 08:53 AM
but in the circle of WL and FL...i doubt they will say di 1 tieng or di 1 gio....usually they will say "di ve lien"

yup...finished then shortly she leave...hehe...:)

jackbl
26-10-2014, 11:28 AM
but in the circle of WL and FL...i doubt they will say di 1 tieng or di 1 gio....usually they will say "di ve lien"

Remember that pting is teaching some vietnamese phrases??? So it is MAN who will say those sentences.

As some of the transit hotel is 2 hours per booking, so MAN will request VB to go for 2 hours. :D

javmixed
26-10-2014, 01:18 PM
moi nguoi vao web minh ung ho nha
http://javidols.net

jackbl
27-10-2014, 01:27 AM
The rain on the plain in Vietain…
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I hope the editor doesn’t change this title, as it’s a joke based on a song!

The rains are coming. I mean THE rains. The Monsoon season – you know, rain like golf balls and wind like standing under a spinning helicopter blade (please remember to duck) and water in your shoes and laundry that takes three days to dry.

I got the inspiration for this article from a recent Facebook thread about the hammering downpour we recently received around Hoi An Ancient Town and Da Nang City, both in central Vietnam.

‘… it’s started! Better batten down the hatches!’
‘Yep! I can see it flooding my poor garden’
‘Ohhh… you poor thing, has anything survived?’

‘… the water is rising to my back door!’

‘…that’s terrible! Stay safe!’

Then the rain stopped – for the last five days… Expat reactions to rain are sometimes hilarious to read. We’re such wimps. Come on… The little old grandma from two houses down from my place stomps through our private street lake when it’s pouring, like a scene from ‘Singing in the Rain,’ as if she’s strolling to the shops on a sunny Sunday afternoon.

In case you don’t know: the word Monsoon is thought to be Arabic in origin, ‘mawsim,’ meaning season, as the monsoon does signal the change and was first used in English in India. Typhoon perhaps originated from a Japanese word pronounced as ‘taifū.’ You always know it’s coming with the September harvest and rapid drying of the rice on tarpaulins on any street out in the countryside before the rains.

Unless you’re pushing a motorbike through yet another flooded street in Ho Chi Minh City, the contrasting general reactions to rain are giggle-worthy territory. We expats moan that the rain keeps us indoors, yet it’s a welcome opportunity for many rural Vietnamese to stay home and watch telly. We’re aghast when it’s five centimeters of water around our homes yet any Vietnamese near a river can tell you stories of hauling the fridge upstairs.

I commute to Da Nang City during the week and it’s interesting to see how Vietnamese cope. The first droplets are ignored, a few minutes later it belts down. The locals wait to the very last minute to put on a raincoat – which makes sense in the sticky humidity – pulling over almost at the same time, dozens of them, scrambling for the raincoat under the bike seat or racing to the nearest shop to buy one.

It’s very funny watching the young fellas racing home, head and body hugging the bike with no raincoat like a MotoGP racer.

It’s annoying sometimes in town during the rains when money savvy locals bounce into the local bars, dripping wet in a nón lá (conical hat), I might add, to flog off a few raincoats at silly prices. They know we have little choice but to pay up! It is even worse when you’ve just come in from the rain and have to hand over soggy bank notes with dripping fingers.

I shouldn’t be surprised at the quality of these things – they rip apart so easily in the big winds of a typhoon. After going through dozens of these paper thin coats, I bought the dream coat at 180,000 dong and two years later, it is still going strong. It’s lined too, so it makes a cozy winter jacket when I’m riding throughout the winter nights. I remember laughing so much when one large European ripped his raincoat apart just trying it on and the little Vietnamese lady insisted he pay for it while offering him a larger size.

Shoes are another issue. I started out in runners only to learn that they never really dry out properly. Then I moved on to sandals only to find out the straps can’t deal with water. I did buy the local black jacket and outer waterproof pants with some big wellington boots, discovering that I was dying in the moisture from the gear. Finally my super awesome Vietnamese girlfriend bought me rubber shoes with large holes in them. Brilliant! Dry in a flash and no problem walking through puddles. Love those shoes…

Big storms come and we do follow with comments flying all over Facebook and smartphones. Time to stock up on candles and beer, put the food in the ice box and make sure you’ve got some good books to read! Still it’s amusing how expats sometimes complain that the WiFi is down and there’s no hot water, the air-con has no power and they can’t get to their favorite pub because it’s under water. Ah… such hardships.

So the next time the sky darkens and thunderclaps announce the deluge, don’t worry about it and remember: your flowers are getting watered while you’re watching footy on the sofa.

damong777
27-10-2014, 02:27 PM
Thanks, at least i know what he mean by " dam tac". I catch no balls.:D



Thanks for upz but cannot return upz because upz u before for KSP address.
Nice addition for KTV cheongster but i seldom go KTV, more interested to get FL girl to my room then use international sex language to finish off the job..:D

Np with the upz...

Anyway nice to sharing and correcting some phrases here rather than just jackbl posting here

damong777
28-10-2014, 04:50 PM
Any suggestions for pillow talk??

KangTuo
28-10-2014, 05:04 PM
Any suggestions for pillow talk??

Lam them mot lan....

tanandy
29-10-2014, 06:51 PM
Chúc mới người học được tiếng việt và nói tiếng giỏi giỏi. Có thể xao được nhiều gai làm singapore Kiêu ngạo.

curious76
29-10-2014, 06:54 PM
Mai anh về quê các chú có ai tâm hự ǵ hnay th́ alo nha mời anh đi đánh chén cũng dc :D;P;P

Please help to translate..

Hurricane88
29-10-2014, 06:56 PM
Mai anh về quê các chú có ai tâm hự ǵ hnay th́ alo nha mời anh đi đánh chén cũng dc :D;P;P

Please help to translate..

I try...this is what IMHO what I think the meaning...:p

tomorrow you go back...so today invite you to bonk and have abalone oyster for your meal...:)

curious76
29-10-2014, 06:57 PM
I try...this is what IMHO what I think the meaning...:p

tomorrow you go back...so today invite you to bonk and have abalone oyster for your meal...:)

Nice try.. :(

curious76
29-10-2014, 09:41 PM
Em chăm đấy béo k chị Bảo Trang

Translate please anyone..

jackbl
29-10-2014, 11:13 PM
Có thể xao được nhiều gai làm singapore Kiêu ngạo.

sorry, we dun xao them.... we an banh tra tien!

U from vn? U xao to get gals???

testNeur
29-10-2014, 11:46 PM
for the first 3 phrase..have to add a "khong" on the last.

"dam tac" is 好色

it shld be "em co bao nhieu khach"

Bro, dam tac, is pronounced as yam tac or dam tac?
I go differ place they pronounced differently but told me means Ham sap (Cantonese )

volcano
30-10-2014, 02:09 AM
Bro, dam tac, is pronounced as yam tac or dam tac?
I go differ place they pronounced differently but told me means Ham sap (Cantonese )


if using hanyu pinyin then shld be pronounce as "yum"

KangTuo
30-10-2014, 07:54 AM
Mai anh về quê các chú có ai tâm hự ǵ hnay th́ alo nha mời anh đi đánh chén cũng dc :D;P;P

Please help to translate..

I bet this msg is from the vb ex bf...
I dunno how to translate but basically means tomorrow the ex bf go back province but no one care, he ask the vb to call him and ask him out to do anything also can

KangTuo
30-10-2014, 07:58 AM
Em chăm đấy béo k chị Bảo Trang

Translate please anyone..

I care there fat or not sister Bao Trang

curious76
30-10-2014, 07:59 AM
I bet this msg is from the vb ex bf...
I dunno how to translate but basically means tomorrow the ex bf go back province but no one care, he ask the vb to call him and ask him out to do anything also can

lol this is from my VB..

So does this meant that my VB go back province but no one care, she ask his bf to call him and ask him out to do anything also can??

KangTuo
30-10-2014, 08:03 AM
lol this is from my VB..

Then its her who ask him to call her and she go will go out with him lor..
You checking your vb msg from FB huh :p

curious76
30-10-2014, 08:12 AM
Then its her who ask him to call her and she go will go out with him lor..
You checking your vb msg from FB huh :p

Yeah.. but anyway she say she still friend with him.. lol

Hurricane88
30-10-2014, 09:55 AM
Then its her who ask him to call her and she go will go out with him lor..
You checking your vb msg from FB huh :p

haha...the way I read it...my meaning translated not far from your meaning leh...:)

Hurricane88
30-10-2014, 09:57 AM
lol this is from my VB..

So does this meant that my VB go back province but no one care, she ask his bf to call him and ask him out to do anything also can??

see my friend...this is VB culture...sex to them is nothing and the VB thought by providing sex can hold on to her ex bf...:)

plenty of things you dun know yet about VB culture...take your time to learn la...:)

jackbl
30-10-2014, 10:56 AM
lol this is from my VB..

So does this meant that my VB go back province but no one care, she ask his bf to call him and ask him out to do anything also can??

I think if u wish ppl to translate for u, the best is let ppl know the message from who, what's the previous message, the message background and context, etc....

jackbl
30-10-2014, 11:00 AM
he ask the vb to call him and ask him out to do anything also can

No you are wrong. Not go out do anything. Is to go out and drink.

Maybe my standard not high enough ( no one say my TV is good). Can other sifu confirm?

jackbl
30-10-2014, 11:12 AM
Then its her who ask him to call her and she go will go out with him lor..
You checking your vb msg from FB huh :p

I also feel the style of writing is from a man. Maybe it's the style of northern vietnamese man which we are not familiar with.

Hurricane88
30-10-2014, 11:24 AM
Ok I got a Viet gal to translate and here is the translation..

Mai anh về quê các chú có ai tâm hự ǵ hnay th́ alo nha mời anh đi đánh chén cũng dc

He told tomorrow he will go back home town, and today who wants to invite him go out to drink?

So confirmed is a man who wrote this and not a girl...:)

KangTuo
30-10-2014, 12:55 PM
No you are wrong. Not go out do anything. Is to go out and drink.

Maybe my standard not high enough ( no one say my TV is good). Can other sifu confirm?

ok... yah.. drink...

đánh chén = hit cup if translate word for word

KangTuo
30-10-2014, 01:00 PM
I also feel the style of writing is from a man.


So confirmed is a man who wrote this and not a girl...:)

these days there are vb talking to vb but addressing as anh and em :eek:
those into Les Sb and Fem...

les là đồng tính nữ ( con gái yêu con gái )
sb là les đóng vai tṛ nam ( chồng ) mạnh mẽ
sb có 2 loại :
sb mềm nh́n ở ngoài như con gái
sb cứng bận đồ boy cut tóc boy
fem là les đóng vai tṛ nữ ( vợ ) yếu đuối

curious76
30-10-2014, 02:04 PM
I also feel the style of writing is from a man. Maybe it's the style of northern vietnamese man which we are not familiar with.

http://imgur.com/1Uvdnu9

I cannot upload here.. so above is the link to the image file.

tanandy
30-10-2014, 02:06 PM
sorry, we dun xao them.... we an banh tra tien!

U from vn? U xao to get gals???

Hahah em đang nói cḥi, em cũng đang học TV, muốn Luyện tập trên sammyboy thread này. Kg biết bao nhiêu con trai singapore cho con gái vn xao xao rồi. Chúng ta xao con gái vn chút xíu cũng công bằng ma.

Cảm ơn anh nhiều v́ anh luôn cho chúng ta biết news của vietnam. Em cám ơn anh nhiều.

curious76
30-10-2014, 02:27 PM
these days there are vb talking to vb but addressing as anh and em :eek:
those into Les Sb and Fem...

les là đồng tính nữ ( con gái yêu con gái )
sb là les đóng vai tṛ nam ( chồng ) mạnh mẽ
sb có 2 loại :
sb mềm nh́n ở ngoài như con gái
sb cứng bận đồ boy cut tóc boy
fem là les đóng vai tṛ nữ ( vợ ) yếu đuối

So they love les :eek::eek::eek:

jackbl
30-10-2014, 11:02 PM
Singaporean investors earning big money in Vietnam
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VietNamNet Bridge – Many Singaporean businesspeople have invested in big projects in Vietnam in many different business fields, especially real estate.

The Government of Singapore (GIC) Fund on August 14 unexpectedly announced it had become a big shareholder of Vinasun (VNS) after wrapping up a deal to buy 4.5 million VNS shares, or 7.96 percent of chartered capital.

With the current price of VND45,000 per share, the Singaporean fund has poured VND200 billion into Vietnam’s largest taxi firm.

This is the second Singaporean-sourced capital investment deal in VNS. Prior to that, another fund, which also has relations to the Singaporean government, Teal Two Partners Ltd, bought 7.93 million VNS shares, or 14 percent of the firm’s chartered capital.

Teal Two Partners Ltd is now the largest shareholder of PAN Pacific, holding 8.1 million shares, or 20 percent of PAN Pacific’s chartered capital. Meanwhile, GIC holds 4.7 percent of PAN’s shares.

Analysts believe that the Singaporean cash flow will continue to head toward Vietnam, targeting the real estate, industry, hotels, banks, logistics and retail sectors.

In mid-2013, two multi-million dollar investment deals made by Richard Chandler, the billionaire who was born and grew up in Singapore.

He reportedly spent $99 million to buy 80 percent of stakes of Hoan My Medical Group and 58.7 million Masan (MSN) shares from six domestic investors.

If counting the 20 million MSN shares bought in late 2010, the billionaire now holds up to 78.7 million MSN shares, or 10.7 percent.

He is the biggest foreign shareholder of Vietnam’s largest consumer goods manufacturing group. The share value is estimated at $330 million.

Many other major Singaporean investors have become involved in big deals in Vietnam.

These include CapitalLand, the developer of Mulberry Lane in Hanoi, Vista in HCM City, and Somerset Grand Hanoi, Somerset Hoa Binh Hanoi, Somerset West Lake Hanoi, Somerset Chancellor Court HCM City, Somerset HHCM City and Somerset Vista HCM City.

The Singaporean real estate giant Keppel Land is well known in Vietnam for many projects such as Saigon Centre, Sedona Suites Royal Park - Hanoi, Villa Rivera, and The Estella.

In addition, the Singaporean banker UOB (United Overseas Bank) holds 20 percent of Southern Bank’s stakes.

Temasek, the Singapore government corporation, holds 3.6 percent of FPT stakes, Vietnam’s largest information technology group, and 20 percent of Mekong Bank’s stakes.

Analysts commented that Vietnam is one of the most attractive investment destinations for Singaporean investors. Vietnam is suitable to both the investors who plan long-term business in Vietnam and those who want to make profits from short-term projects.

In September 2013, the Orchid Fund withdrew capital from FPT just two years after it injected money into the technology group. The sale of the 10 percent of FPT stakes brought VND1.3 trillion, a satisfactory profit of 20-30 percent to the investment fund.

Manh Ha

dungyeu
31-10-2014, 06:20 PM
http://imgur.com/1Uvdnu9

I cannot upload here.. so above is the link to the image file.

From her zalo right? :rolleyes:

curious76
31-10-2014, 11:05 PM
From her zalo right? :rolleyes:

yupz.. you are correct.

curious76
31-10-2014, 11:13 PM
Chuẩn bị cho buổi phượt nhé suối mỡ thác thùm thùm

Picture background is her ex bf and her friend playing in the river..

jackbl
03-11-2014, 12:15 AM
The highest-earning jobs in Vietnam
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VietNamNet Bridge – Banking officers and air stewardesses are believed to have some of the highest incomes in Vietnam.

Becoming a banking officer is the dream of many people. VietNamNet has quoted a report from Adeco as showing that high salaries are offered to all posts in the banking sector.

The monthly income of VND20-40 million is considered “normal” in the banking sector. Senior payment officers receive about VND40 million a month. Meanwhile, normal payment officers have monthly incomes of between VND12 million and VND30 million.

Tran Bac Ha, chair of the board of directors of the Bank for Investment and Development of Vietnam (BIDV, a state-owned bank), once complained that his monthly pay of VND36 million paid by the State was “not enough to live”.

The 2008-2013 payrolls made public recently by Vietnam Airlines, the national flag air carrier, showed that employees had high incomes.

The payroll, published on Zing.vn, showed that pilots received VND74.8 million a month in 2013.

Though the figure represents a decrease of VND4.5 million in comparison with 2012 and VND6.7 million in comparison with 2011, this is still high compared with the average income level in Vietnam.

Vietnam, jobs, income per capita

However, analysts noted that pilots deserve to receive the high incomes because the job is very challenging.

The income of stewardesses, on the other hand, is questioned by many people. Nguoi Dua Tin reported that the average salary of stewardesses is VND20-30 million a month. However, the salary is not their only source of income. Stewardesses are believed to make money from trading goods across the border.

In a related matter, Zing.vn reports that in Hanoi, the highest monthly salary in 2013 – VND147 million - was paid to the director of human resources of a manufacturing group.

A new university graduate can now be paid at least VND5 million for the job of personnel officer at Vietnamese companies while division heads can earn up to $1,000 monthly, and human resource directors can earn up to $3,000.

Meanwhile, some foreign economic groups in Vietnam reportedly pay $4,000 a month for the same job.

Staff in the oil and gas industry also can earn high salaries. A report released recently by the Ministry of Industry and Trade showed that PetroVietnam’s workers had the highest average income among 17 state-owned economic groups and general corporations put under the ministry’s management.

In 2011, a PetroVietnam employee received VND16.2 million a monon average.

So Ha

volcano
03-11-2014, 03:21 PM
highest earning job is police lol :D

Hurricane88
03-11-2014, 03:49 PM
highest earning job is police lol :D

fully agreed...:)

jackbl
03-11-2014, 11:10 PM
highest earning job is police lol :D

"Extra income" not counted, cannot see light :D

Ecuader
04-11-2014, 01:53 AM
highest earning job is police lol :D

Return favour. Here is 11.

damong777
04-11-2014, 08:30 PM
Bro, dam tac, is pronounced as yam tac or dam tac?
I go differ place they pronounced differently but told me means Ham sap (Cantonese )

yes. is ham sap.

FireShark
05-11-2014, 11:06 AM
yes. is ham sap.

I thought ham sap is a cantonese word???

dam tac is a vietnamese word:confused:

jacky43
05-11-2014, 08:33 PM
Share with everybody. I come across few VN no licences doctors. Hold the bus. They are no underground doctors rather doctors who cant practice medicines because they are not certify by medical council.

A group of 8 men and women i must said one is pretty. If she don't speak English i though she is local girl. What are their jobs at a hospital. They are "coding" medical reports, i don't know the fuck whatever is the meaning of that word.

Well these doctors are cheap labors probably below S$2K per month, with unwritten promise of PR in the distance future. I am keeping mine fingers crossed the pretty chick will be hook up before her time is due. You know how i test the waters? I told them about FL, Kelantan's lane clinic they seems to be interested on GL commercial sex industry. I mean they are still medical trained but not from NUS. Only problem is English suck.

The pretty one asked whether her home girls are WLs which i haven't got a clue. But i am death serious i had seen VN FLs along the back lanes of GL. Another girl asked what it takes to be working at DSC? Again i have no clue but like what is in Hollywood.

Be careful what she wish for even for a medical doctor. Still she did not pray to harbor so don't wonder around searching for secrets.

jackbl
07-11-2014, 12:54 AM
Reported by Vietnam newspaper

Vietnam tourist, cheated by iPhone store in Singapore, thanks fundraiser
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Pham Van Thoai, the Vietnamese tourist who was cheated when buying an iPhone 6 at a store in Singapore, told a newspaper that he has received $550 as support from a Singaporean businessman, and will not receive any further assistance.

Thoai, 28, was asked by Mobile Air Pte Ltd in Sim Lim Square to sign some worded invoice in English, a language Thoai barely understands. He thus was forced to pay an additional S$1,500 for a 1-year warranty. The poor tourist then went down on his knees, begging the store to return him the money but failed. He eventually left the shop with S$550 poorer, and with no Iphone 6.

Thoai now tells a Chinese-language Singaporean newspaper Lianhe Zaobao that he has bought a new iPhone 6 with the money he received from the businessman.

"I've been cheated $550, so I'll only get $550 from a kind person, and I will receive no more. I am grateful for your kindness, but I just want to get the right amount I lost," Thoai told the newspaper.

By 9:00 on Thursday morning, nearly $10,000, equivalent to 12,938 Singapore dollars, has been donated to help the Vietnamese tourist.

The money was collected via a crowdfunding project created by a Singaporean man, Gabriel Kang.

Kang launched the project on Wednesday to raise money to buy an iPhone 6 and other gifts to send to Vietnam for Thoai to apologize to him on behalf of the people of Singapore, and express the hospitality of the people of the Southeast Asian city-state.

As of 10:30 pm (Vietnam time) on Wednesday, the money Kang raised has amounted to over US$7,300, while the initial target he set was just $1,350, which was fulfilled within an hour of launching the project.

Kang’s fundraising campaign will last for eight more days.

Kang said he had already bought a gray iPhone 6 worth S$1,288 to send to Vietnam for Thoai, and also made a video clip recording the process of paying the bill for the smartphone.

“My name is Gabriel and I work in a small local tech startup. I am a Singaporean who is neither rich nor poor and I do not seek to profit directly or indirectly from the results of this campaign,” he said on the website.

With strong pressure from public opinion in Singapore, the Air Mobile store has temporarily been closed. A Singaporean community, named SMRT Ltd (Feedback), has posted a photo showing the Air Mobile store with its door shut.

But this does not mean it will close permanently, as some shops in Sim Lim Square which usually did the same bad thing on tourists often closed and then reopened with a new name, said the community.

The case is being closely monitored by the community. The Singaporean community has even found the home address, telephone number and passport numbers of the shop owner and his wife, Jover Chew.

Earlier, two female tourists from China have been cheated by the Air Mobile store which sold some iPhone 6 at $3,000 compared to the official price of $ 1,800 prices, said Singaporean press.

After intervention of the police, they threw a bag of coins to the buyers, leaving them count it one by one right at the shop.

Sim Lim Square is sometimes known as "black spots" and the government has repeatedly received complaints related to this area.

Singapore Tourism Board yesterday said it will take tougher moves with shopping malls like Sim Lim Square to protect the rights of tourists, while keeping a good image of the country's tourism industry in the eye of foreign tourists.

curious76
07-11-2014, 09:05 AM
Những ǵ em đă thích em sẽ giữ nó rất chặt.... Nhưng cái ǵ em đă không c̣n muốn nữa em sẽ vứt nó đi rất tàn nhẫn rất lạnh lùng và em là thế là như vậy không phải em thích người khác mà chưa có ai hiểu được em e giông như một giọt nước vậy rễ tan rễ biến mất nhưng ngta mang lại cho em những ǵ e trả lại hơn cả thế .... Cả yêu thương /-showlove/-showlove/-showlove/-showlove Lẫn nỗi đau

Anyone can help to translate this??

I think is the end for me.. lol..

forgotoldnick
08-11-2014, 09:21 AM
Những ǵ em đă thích em sẽ giữ nó rất chặt.... Nhưng cái ǵ em đă không c̣n muốn nữa em sẽ vứt nó đi rất tàn nhẫn rất lạnh lùng và em là thế là như vậy không phải em thích người khác mà chưa có ai hiểu được em e giông như một giọt nước vậy rễ tan rễ biến mất nhưng ngta mang lại cho em những ǵ e trả lại hơn cả thế .... Cả yêu thương /-showlove/-showlove/-showlove/-showlove Lẫn nỗi đau
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Những ǵ em đă thích em sẽ giữ nó rất chặt, for something i loved i will hold on very tightly.
Nhưng cái ǵ em đă không c̣n muốn nữa em sẽ vứt nó đi rất tàn nhẫn rất lạnh lùng, for something i no longer want, i will forsake mercilessly and coldly.
và em là thế là như vậy không phải em thích người khác mà chưa có ai hiểu được em, and i am like that not bcos i have loved someone else, nobody understand me.
e giông như một giọt nước vậy rễ tan rễ biến mất nhưng ngta mang lại cho em những ǵ e trả lại hơn cả thế, i am as soluble as a droplet, for what is given to me i will return more than that.
Cả yêu thương, in love together
Lẫn nỗi đau, in pain separately

jacky43
08-11-2014, 11:39 AM
Only one word. KP local who side FTs, karma will strike him one day where he will be replaced by either FT or PR. I being hearing stuffs at coffee shop of locals renting shop space. Then sub renting to another person whether local or FT it does not matter to him.

The thing is this people tend to pull a fast one, even to the extent of selling illegal goods. I pretty much think CASE looks away it did not fine the local high enough.

curious76
08-11-2014, 11:53 AM
Only one word. KP local who side FTs, karma will strike him one day where he will be replaced by either FT or PR. I being hearing stuffs at coffee shop of locals renting shop space. Then sub renting to another person whether local or FT it does not matter to him.

The thing is this people tend to pull a fast one, even to the extent of selling illegal goods. I pretty much think CASE looks away it did not fine the local high enough.

In singapore Business is the first priority.. The government will try and look the other way until some thing like this get out of hand..

After this incident, the government will not do any policy change to rental as this does not benefit him. He can take more GST for rental..

curious76
08-11-2014, 12:29 PM
Những ǵ em đă thích em sẽ giữ nó rất chặt, for something i loved i will hold on very tightly.
Nhưng cái ǵ em đă không c̣n muốn nữa em sẽ vứt nó đi rất tàn nhẫn rất lạnh lùng, for something i no longer want, i will forsake mercilessly and coldly.
và em là thế là như vậy không phải em thích người khác mà chưa có ai hiểu được em, and i am like that not bcos i have loved someone else, nobody understand me.
e giông như một giọt nước vậy rễ tan rễ biến mất nhưng ngta mang lại cho em những ǵ e trả lại hơn cả thế, i am as soluble as a droplet, for what is given to me i will return more than that.
Cả yêu thương, in love together
Lẫn nỗi đau, in pain separately
Thanks for the translation will upzz you

chris91
08-11-2014, 12:58 PM
Bro, dam tac, is pronounced as yam tac or dam tac?
I go differ place they pronounced differently but told me means Ham sap (Cantonese )

It's spelled as "dam tac", but pronounced differently for northern and southern Vietnam. In the north (ex: Hanoi), they pronounce it as "zam tac" but in the south (ex: HCM), they pronounce as "yam tac".

Either way, it still means "ham sap". Hope this clarifies. :D

shimanogear
08-11-2014, 02:44 PM
How to translate..

1. How old are you?
2. When you go back to viet?
3. Very little?

Thanks

pting
08-11-2014, 04:16 PM
How to translate..

1. How old are you?
2. When you go back to viet?
3. Very little?

Thanks

i think these sentence useful for me when try to pick up FL girls in VN.
Good to add in my dictionary.:D

I get it translated for u.

1.) ban bao nhieu tuoi?

2) Khi nao em/chi/ban ve Viet?
("em" for younger gal, "chi" for older gal, "ban" if u dont know)

3) no co it qua ko?

Cheers:)

jacky43
08-11-2014, 08:21 PM
In singapore Business is the first priority.. The government will try and look the other way until some thing like this get out of hand..

After this incident, the government will not do any policy change to rental as this does not benefit him. He can take more GST for rental..
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So you notice still we have to move on. This country transform fast that's one reason FTs and PR love about the government. This pm repeat of talking point, the topic is SME adapt to labor changes. Actually this affect all companies not just small enterprises.

All textbooks materials and, mine feelings next year we will see more jobs in the market employing locals. Only locals will not destroy the systems take the example of an expat. Even bringing home $25K and, a million dollars productivity cost saving plus profit blueprint. His mind will do the opposite he will destroy it so the employer had give power to the wrong guy.

I think many employers had seen this. CNA is another example of expats who TCSS as if they could change this country. Applying USA systems in Asia is fail before it begin. Morale of the story, never trust expats/ FTs and PR for their starting point is never well intended.

curious76
09-11-2014, 08:56 AM
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So you notice still we have to move on. This country transform fast that's one reason FTs and PR love about the government. This pm repeat of talking point, the topic is SME adapt to labor changes. Actually this affect all companies not just small enterprises.

All textbooks materials and, mine feelings next year we will see more jobs in the market employing locals. Only locals will not destroy the systems take the example of an expat. Even bringing home $25K and, a million dollars productivity cost saving plus profit blueprint. His mind will do the opposite he will destroy it so the employer had give power to the wrong guy.

I think many employers had seen this. CNA is another example of expats who TCSS as if they could change this country. Applying USA systems in Asia is fail before it begin. Morale of the story, never trust expats/ FTs and PR for their starting point is never well intended.

Singapore need to adopt a new system that benefit both the employer and employee. But this PM, Sigh.. scared that Foreign Investor run away.. To summarise, Money talks to this government..

halogen019
09-11-2014, 11:25 AM
Off topic a bit but I realise that viet bu's perception of beauty is very different from Singaporean guys' beauty, or at least mine.

I have encountered a few Vietnamese who like to show me some of their pictures from their mobile phones. Make no mistake, they are all very chio in real life, much better looking than your average girl on the street but in their pictures, they like to put a lot of face powder to make their face skin tone totally different from their body which makes it look sort of ugly.

Their choice of clothes is also very different. A bit outdated type but having said that, most of them, their attitude are great! :)

jackbl
10-11-2014, 12:46 AM
Number of foreigners changing driving licenses in HCMC rises sharply
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The number of foreigners who visited local authorities in Ho Chi Minh City to change their driver’s licenses so far this year has risen to about 5,000, while the number for the whole year of 2013 was just over 2,500, according to the head of a local state agency responsible for the job.

As driving licenses granted by foreign countries are not accepted in Vietnam, foreigners wishing to drive here have to contact appropriate Vietnamese authorities to change their licenses.

Meanwhile, about 800 foreigners have applied for the test to obtain the driving licenses in Vietnam, also doubling the 2013’s figure, said Vo Trong Nghia, head of driving testing and licensing unit under the HCMC Department of Transport.

Almost all of those who are changing their driver’s licenses or are preparing to take the test are from Asian countries. They are now living in HCMC, and want to drive by themselves, Nghia said.

The department has dispatched a specialized unit at 252 Ly Chinh Thang Street, District 3 to streamline administrative procedures for those foreigners so that they can obtain their licenses as quickly as possible, he added.

FireShark
10-11-2014, 01:57 PM
Number of foreigners changing driving licenses in HCMC rises sharply
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The number of foreigners who visited local authorities in Ho Chi Minh City to change their driver’s licenses so far this year has risen to about 5,000, while the number for the whole year of 2013 was just over 2,500, according to the head of a local state agency responsible for the job.

As driving licenses granted by foreign countries are not accepted in Vietnam, foreigners wishing to drive here have to contact appropriate Vietnamese authorities to change their licenses.

Meanwhile, about 800 foreigners have applied for the test to obtain the driving licenses in Vietnam, also doubling the 2013’s figure, said Vo Trong Nghia, head of driving testing and licensing unit under the HCMC Department of Transport.

Almost all of those who are changing their driver’s licenses or are preparing to take the test are from Asian countries. They are now living in HCMC, and want to drive by themselves, Nghia said.

The department has dispatched a specialized unit at 252 Ly Chinh Thang Street, District 3 to streamline administrative procedures for those foreigners so that they can obtain their licenses as quickly as possible, he added.

Wow, Will tell my BX to convert my motor and driving License so that nextime I could ride the motor there

Seletar
12-11-2014, 09:12 PM
Off topic a bit but I realise that viet bu's perception of beauty is very different from Singaporean guys' beauty, or at least mine.

Their choice of clothes is also very different. A bit outdated type but having said that, most of them, their attitude are great! :)

Different style of wearing clothes, different fashion.

Can you elaborate ' their attitude are great '. :D

volcano
13-11-2014, 04:01 PM
Wow, Will tell my BX to convert my motor and driving License so that nextime I could ride the motor there


ride without license also not big issue lol

if suay suay tio mata catch then just end up $12 poorer nia :D

FireShark
13-11-2014, 05:12 PM
ride without license also not big issue lol

if suay suay tio mata catch then just end up $12 poorer nia :D

You sure bo? $12??? I scare later he confiscate the bike.

jackbl
14-11-2014, 12:18 AM
You sure bo? $12??? I scare later he confiscate the bike.

I ever heard that trivial traffic offense already need to give 300,000vnd..... as for no license, I think more :D :p

halogen019
14-11-2014, 12:29 AM
Different style of wearing clothes, different fashion.

Can you elaborate ' their attitude are great '. :D

So far my time spent with viets have been quite positive. They are quite willing to please.