Ho Chi Minh City
Church + Saigon Square + Vincom Center (B) + Saigon Centre + night market
Not much pictures this time. Would upload it when I'm back to Malaysia as I could only upload the photos from the camera. A bit of Malaysia's type of speaking English with larhhh(s) and bahh(s) etcetera.
Today is a sabbath day ! So we woke up quite early like 6:30 am ? And we went downstairs to have our breakfast again. They have sushi(s) sia SO NICEEEE. And I took some toasted bread and I melted cheese on top of it with the toaster (hotel type) so yeahhh I guess next time I would put fresh loaf of bread with cheese on top rather than to toast it only then put the cheese to melt it by toasting it again, it makes the bread a bit over cooked HAHAHAHA but yeah it's nice c:
Then we took this kind of vinasun taxi that they say it's local taxi that is much more worth it as they are more honest and yeahh off we go to the church which is the Cholon Chinese Church. Surprisingly, I feel like I'm in Malaysia in this church as they speak Cantonese like finally a language I can understand. It's tough in Vietnam as they could only speak Vietnamese and not other language. Even if its English, just those simple one. Ohh, the tour guide's English is so far the best English I've heard from them.
So the Church service starts from 8:30 am to 11 am. 8:30 to 10:00 is for sabbath school while 10:00 to 11:00 is the divine service.
After the church services, we got help from the local church members to continue our journey. We actually planned to go to Saigon Square (some tourists introduce us to visit) but they couldn't understand us and they thought we want to go to Vincom centre. Then finally we thought we got the wrong name so we thought it is Saigon Centre. Then they understand. And then with the help of some church members, we managed to get on two taxi(s) and they kind of like communicate with them in Vietnamese on where we are going.
Who knows they brought us back to Ben Thanh market. And we told the taxi driver we want to go to Saigon Centre, then he brought us there. On the other side, they also went to Ben Thanh market. So I don't know why, I think because different church member giving information than the one that the church member we told to. That's why, actually both taxi drivers went to Ben Thanh market. And the shittiest thing is that the five people here actually knows where we are going while the five people there don't as they are kinda old, so they usually just follow. So after calling a few times (although overseas charge like seriously a lot) we walked back to our hotel. And there they are. Luckily they know how to come back lolol. And luckily all this supermarket and our hotel is in District 1 which means it's all reachable in walking distance.
So with that walking back, we found out that actually there is a Saigon Square in between Saigon Centre and Ben Thanh market.
So again we walk back to Saigon Square not Centre. Ermm, Saigon Square is a shopping place more on clothes and electronic gadgets. The clothes sold there is not that tourism type, not like with those I Love Vietnam type but those fashion type of clothes. Not to say Ben Thanh market doesn't have the fashion type but Saigon Square has more of it not like Ben Thanh market is more of a ratio of 5:5. Of course the things sell here suit us more larhh but on the other side, I think the stuff in Ben Thanh market is cheaper as it is bargain-able. So see what you like larhh, I prefer Saigon Square as there is air cond and there is more things to see but Ben Thanh market is an interesting place so yeahh see what you like lurhh HAHAHA.
Then after awhile we went for lunch. We went back to the PMG ART CAFE which is also called Phuong Mai Art Cafe. So yeahh I ordered tuna pizza again xD
Here is a picture of it, finally remembered to take pictures of food. Taking pictures of food were definitely not my style HAHAHAHA
So after lunch, my parents were planning to head back to buy some more dry goods. As Ben Thanh market is too hot and crowded for me to stand, me and my bro head back to the hotel for some nap. We actually spent our time watching movies and surfing the net larhh, not really nap. But later I did had a short nap.
After that, we went to have our dinner in Vincom Center (B) this time. On the way there, we passed through the famous opera stadium. Actually all this Vincom Centre, Opera stadium, churches look like those Angmo (American ?) buildings, so beautiful sia. That's why that part of the buildings are call the French town or French something, forget dy.
Back to the topic. We had Thai Express and honestly the food here of Thai Express is way better than the ones in Singapore. Like I really enjoyed it. I ordered sweet and sour fish so this is how it looks like.
Then we walked around Vincom Center (B) and we then find it all more of a family type of shopping with more home appliances in it. So we were planning to go back. But I thought of going to Saigon Centre for some reasons larhh although shopping is not my type, I think mostly because I don't want to walk back here again hahahaa yeappp I think that's what I think then. Lazy ehh ?
But they seems like they are heading back to the direction of the hotel. At that exact moment, the sky starts to rain. And it's DRIZZLING HAHAHAHAHAH
So we planned to go in and look around. Not bad larhh, we spent quite a long time in one particular shop that sells those cold and heat therapy thingy. It's like a kind of sack that has herbal that when you heat it for two minutes in a microwave, the heat could sustain for around 40 minutes. It's really comfortable and it could help for our blood circulation etcetera. Like there is eye mask one, so it could make your eye feel comfortable. And there is those belly type one, it's more worth it for the belly one as you could actually use it for your back too and it could reduce back pain and could help in slimming. And more larhh, I'm not a promoter here HAHAHAHA. Quite cheap larhh, around RM215, 1,390,000 Vietnam Dong. Okay larhh, but can use for 3 years nia, later then need to change already as the herbs inside yeahh. So after rounding off, it's like 20 cents per day larhh. But the problem is there isn't any microwave in my house, we only had oven. The temperature of that particular microwave is around 700 °C , I don't real or not larhh, there also didn't write and they seems unsure too. Other than that, microwave could actually heat the substance more overall, so it could heat it more inside. So we didn't buy larhh at last.
Found this really nice and decent art sculpture in one of those home decor store. Like it a lot ;-; too bad it's too too expensive
After that, we begin walking back to the hotel. On the way back, we went to the night market again. Finally bought something for my best friends. But it's kinda weird larhh, I hope they could find it useful ? I don't know sia, but they better use it HAHAHAHA.
Now we are back and yeahh, I've just tried those local potato chips (those in fat packets like Chipsters, Twisties, Lays etcetera) and I must admit my friend was right about it, it really does taste delicious. I took the sushi flavor and I didn't expect much as it is less than RM3 like around 20,000 Vietnam Dong (forget le, bought it in Day 1). I thought it would taste like seaweed, as those Malaysia seaweed type of potato chips doesn't taste really nice, so so larhh. But the ones here taste really nice. Like truly sushi flavor. But too bad larhh cannot buy back as it would expand and burst when we go back by plane.
That's all, oh and to my best friend Bon Voyage yo ! Have fun in Korea X) LYLAS ❤