notes from saigon

• they like their smoke a whole lot, even indoors and without ventilation
• food is good and on every street corner and so far without gastrointestinal repercussions
• mopeds own the roads and the traffic qualifies for its own blog post
• crossing the roads also qualifies as a bona fide tourist thing to do
• they speak pretty functional english here, much more than in bangkok, for e.g.
• there are fewer beggars and less conspicuous consumption, compared to (again) bangkok
• you forget this is a communist country. they are quite ardently capitalist here
• chatuchak is bigger than ben thanh
• the war remnants museum is a must-go, if only to open your eyes to how fortunate we are
• the post office might have been designed by Eiffel, but it's a bit too colorful
• the night view of district 1 across the river from district 2 is gorgeous