Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Ho Chi Minh City - Shopaholics' Trip 23-25 July: Day 2

Meh sambung citer pasal second day di Ho Chi Minh City (HCM).

Kim Huong Hotel bagi free breakfast sepanjang our stay there. ada beberapa pilihan makanan disediakan, tapi yang halal cuma porridge with salted egg, hard/half boiled egg, cheese, strawberry jam and butter, eaten together with bread.roti dia nampak je besar tapi sebenarnya dalam tu hollow. air pula either hot/ice vietnamese coffee or tea.


lepas dah kenyang perut, kitaorang pegi ke china market. tempatnye agak jauh dari hotel, dalam 20-25 minit gak la nak sampai. kat sini ada mcm2 jenis kain ... ade kain lycra yang orang-orang mesia dah start jual tu ... ada kain untuk buat seluar keje orang laki .... ada cotton melambak-lambak .... chiffon .... silk....mcm2 aaa. kat sini pun ada some shops yang jual in bulk barang-barang plastik tu .... mmg murah-murah. tapi kena hati-hati sket kat sini, bcoz ada penjual yang aggressive, main cengkam-cengkam wrist kita ... kain pun hati-hati lah sket dgn kualiti yang dijual. biasa la tu kan...








lepas dah perabih duit kat china market, kitaorang nak buat lawatan ilmiah sket .... so kitaorang g war remnant museum. entrance fee dalam 15,000 VND. kat museum ni diaorang letak kesan-kesan perang vietnam and masa ni lah nak tgk betapa kejamnya orang us tu ... kalau tgk gamba kat internet, kat museum ni patutnye ada babies with birth defects caused by chemical poisoning (agent orange/dioxin) during the vietnam war, diawet dan diletakkan dlm botol ... tapi kitaorang tak nampak pulak. cuma ada gamba baby awet tu lah. mmg kesian sgt la tgk gamba2 orang vietnam mase perang-perang tu.





if you plan to visit the museum, be aware of the opening and closing time of the museum. unlike other museums in other parts of the world, this war remnant museum closes its doors for lunch for 1.5 hours. it was a good thing that we came earlier, sempat la habiskan sight seeing in the museum. since museum pun dah tutup pintu, we proceed to kedai shamsudin untuk mendapatkan energy (read as: isi perut) untuk agenda seterusnya ..... iaitu shopping, shopping and shopping lagi! hi hi hi.. food served di kedai shamsudin is cheaper and tastier as compared to VN halal that we went the day before.



we then proceed to russian market. we were told that suff sold here are much cheaper than Ben Than market so some of us had a long list of what to buy here. mula-mula pakcik cabbie tu nak drop kitaorang dekat-dekat area saigon square tu .. adoi la. aunty-aunty sume dah sebut no, no...russian market ... u know? ra-shi-an market? pakcik cabbie la dok ning trong..ning trong...betul betul mcm ayam angsa bercakap. pastu pwincess pun sebut ... rhu-si-ya market ... ooo baru lah paham. pakcik cabbie pun bawaklah kitaorang g situ. tapi russian market ni tak macam russian market dulu2. yang ni mcm modern dan byk jual baju je.



petang tu, some of us wanted to shop around dekat area our hotel and kak nor and I hailed a cab to go to hard rock cafe to buy some merchandise items that our friends had kirim.


nyampah-nyampah kat keganasan orang2 US, tetap jugak singgah hard rock cafe...apadaaa~

kat Vietnam asyik hujaaaaan ajer .. pagi petang siang malam hujan. and while in the cab, something caught my attention. So I quickly took out my faithful ixus and snapped a picture of a man with his kids on a motorcycle, tapi raincoat dia dibuka butang dan his kids suma diselubung oleh raincoat tu. I think this can only be seen in Vietnam ... hi hi hi....



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