Tag: vietnam

About every two weeks I need to fill up my motorcycle. I added about 11.6 litters of fuel on Monday. A big feat for me since normally the gas attendents refuse to fill…

You see these water trucks all over Saigon. They water the plants and vegetation in the entire city. I took this photo in District 4 of So 41 Street.

Got to see the new 2018 Ninja 400 yesterday with the 300cc Bikers Club. We all met to clean our bikes' chains. At the moment the 300cc Bikers Club is made up of the…

District 4 has a nice vegetarian restaurant run by Vietnamese nuns called Com Chay Huong Sen. Huong Sen offers a variety of Vegetarian Vietnamese food. An average meal…

Which is stronger, sticky rice or a motorcycle? Well, when I tried to turn left, I learned the hard way. I just turned right there after. PM me if you want to learn the…

Dusk is always a beautiful time in Saigon.

Mugicha, a barley tea, is the main stay in Japanese homes served cold in summer. As a kid, I hated mugicha. Now I drink 6-8 tcups of mugicha per day here in Saigon. I…

I am still using my iPhone 6S+. With all my videos that I was posting, I started to have space issues. For some reason I forgot about iCloud. Maybe because I was backing…

This is a normal scene for bikers in Saigon. I prefer to get out of their way for obvious reasons. They are a big cause of traffic jams in the city.

For many people a loss would not be followed by celebration. It is a different story in Vietnam. Ever so proud of their U23 team, Vietnamese took to the streets last…

Last Wednesday night I went out with a couple members of a young 300cc Club. We were made up of two Z300s and one Ninja 300. The club will get bigger and offer trips…

The perception of many in Saigon is that the air quality in Thao Dien is better than District 1. In fact, at noon today the air quality in Thao Dien was the same as in…

The new upper class area in Saigon is located at Nguyen Co Thach less than 5 minutes from both the Thu Thiem bridge and Thu Thiem tunnel. You can find condos and high…

I never knew this area existed. Take a look of the view from near the Ham Thu Thiem area just across from District 4. A great view of District 1 and 4.

At the request of a couple Expats from both Saigon and Hanoi, I decided to do a test of the DIY Air Purifier in my bedroom. My main air purifier since August, 2016, has…

Yeah, I got a after market exhaust on My Kawasaki Z300 motorcycle. Yes, it is a bit loud but needed on the streets of Saigon. For pollution, my Arrow exhaust meets Euro…

You can upload your dna results to Prometheus for about $5 USD to get your health report. For some this may be scary. This week I will look at the results of some of the…

Some will say it is not necessary but I added it anyway. Sometimes you have to repeatedly switch gears on the streets of Saigon. There were times I wanted to know which…

No surprise here. I am half Japanese according to 23andme. I was surprised to be listed as 1/4 British and Irish. Ten percent French and German. I assumed I was at least…

23andme confirmed that I am 50 percent Japanese. Oddly enough, I am 52 percent East Asian. I always have some semblance of my Japanese pride at home.