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Wedding Dress Street

On December 2, 2011 · In people, places

Our office here is just behind “Wedding Dress Street.” This particular shop caught my eye and I spent part of an evening waiting for the red-eye to Seoul, shooting people in the area…

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A Week in Saigon

On October 2, 2011 · In things

Truc, the girl in the first photo, is our company cook.  Without her, our team could not do the amazing things they do.  Here are photos from a week of lunches.  We are a happy lot.

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Things to do in Saigon during Rush Hour…

On July 20, 2011 · In places, その他

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Wedding Dress Street

On February 21, 2011 · In people, places

Ho Van Hue – the main street near our office here in Saigon – is filled with wedding dress boutiques.  Paradoxically, it also has a more-then-average number of casket shops. Still, from one person’s viewpoint, you’re never too young to start wishing….

More photos in my Vietnam Gallery…

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Saigon Prayer

Saigon Prayer

On February 21, 2011 · In people, places

There’s something about the garish neon, the smoke, and the piety of prayer.  I’m not sure what, but there’s something…

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Proud Mothers

On February 18, 2011 · In people

I was invited to a Vietnamese wedding here in Saigon and was expecting to see a traditional wedding but it turned out to just be the reception dinner in a fancy entertainment complex.  Still, I managed to get a photo of the proud mothers of the bride and groom…

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Morning Market

On August 5, 2010 · In places

Today our office is having a lunch party to celebrate the winners of our World Cup Football pool (any excuse for a celebration!). To help prepare, I accompanied our housekeeper Truc to the market to shop for the occasion. Well, she shopped and I took snapshots…

I’m not sure what it was, [...]

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Sax ‘N Art

On August 4, 2010 · In people, places

Two weeks in Vietnam and I get out once for an evening on the town. Pathetic, I know.  I went to this jazz club I had been to before, Sax ‘N Art, just down the street from the infamous Rex hotel in downtown Saigon.  This guy is actually the owner of the club.  His name [...]

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Muine

On August 1, 2010 · In places

On the weekend I took a train to the nearby seaside resort of Muine (pronounced “Moo-ee-neh”).  The main beach was full of wind surfers, mostly instructors looking for prospective clients.  The entire 3 mile stretch of beach was littered with, well, litter of course, but also resorts of varying quality. There was a very large [...]

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Night Ride

On July 30, 2010 · In people, places

On Thursday my friend Tra and her husband invited me to their home where they have opened a small restaurant.  Traveling on the back of someone’s motorcycle at night can either build, or take away, from one’s appetite…

I didn’t actually see this accident but it appeared as if the woman [...]

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Meet George Jetson

On July 28, 2010 · In people

This is the future and it’s not the American homophobe of individual, personal space capsules; it’s the embracing, sociable Asian open-air style of mass transit.  Entire families ride these things.  Couples, friends, even strangers ride alongside each other through the maelstrom, chatting with each other on the same bike or across to each other on [...]

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A Visit to Nirvana

On July 27, 2010 · In places

“Nirvana” is a typical Vietnamese cafe in that it has a very well thought-out theme. Cafes here, like in other parts of the world, are a refuge where people go to escape the craziness of everything else – and, also, well, to be seen. Nirvana is probably not the best place [...]

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Symphony Cacophony

On July 26, 2010 · In people, places

This is what greeted me when I stepped out at 9pm to go look for a place to get a bite to eat.  Of course, one doesn’t have to look far, but it does help to have choices…

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Baguettes au Vietnam

On July 17, 2010 · In people, places, things

Hot, fresh baguettes? Asia? Must be Saigon.

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