Well, it has been nearly a week since I moved to District 1. I love my new room. I am conveniently located near the New World Hotel on Nguyen Trai street just walking distance from the Pham Ngu Lao backpacking area. My room is perfect, it is cleaned everyday and dust free!!! My only complaint is a lack of a landline and slow ADSL which I hope to remedy sometime next week.
Anyway, below is a picture just a couple minutes walk from where I am staying.
Traffic circle on Nguyen Trai Street
Looking for good Vietnamese gem stones to take home as a souvernior. Thach Son Phuc Co., Ltd., offers gem stones at their show room on the second floor of Margarita’s in Pham Ngu Lao. Below are some pictures I took of their showroom:
I actually did not buy anything here. We already knew the prices for gemstones in another location of Saigon. Be wary that you will be charged double at this shop but the figure is actually a tourist rate. It is a good place to start though and you never know, you may get a deal 
Thach Son Phu Co., Ltd. Showroom
Address: Margarita Second Floor, 175/1 Pham Ngu Lao, District 1, Saigon
Mobile: +84903914932
Saigon got hit with huge thunderstorm that lasted nearly one hour this afternoon. As expected, many of the streets were flooded. The below pictures were taken on Bui Vien Street in the Pham Ngu Lao backpacker area about 45 minutes after the storm at the Santa Cafe.
I thought this was funny. While eating lunch in Pham Ngu Lao, I saw one of Bobby Brewer’s employees buying pastries from a street vendor. Hmm, I guess she does not like the pastries at Bobby Brewer’s… Not really, many Vietnamese find Western pastries too sweet. I always see Bobby Brewer’s employees eating from the street vendors in this area.
A side note, this particular street vendor can sell all of her pastries in less than one hour. She picked a good spot.
(Bobby Brewer’s girl in black across the street)
I decided to have lunch at Mimosa today. Normally there are two tables just outside the restaurant. Roughly every 2-3 months, the local police ‘confiscate’ one table for about a month. The owner can get it back sooner but she did not want to have to pay the ‘fee’. The police will return the table. About a week before Tet, they will take it back again.
Same ole, same ole…
(Used to be a table here)
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