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[Hurricane88]

10 places to eat the night away in Saigon

By Vi Yen July 29, 2018 | 06:00 pm GMT+7

Night is when Saigon food lovers go out and search for some serious eats.
Broken rice with grilled pork – Dinh Tien Hoang Street, Binh Thanh District

This diner is a familiar night food spot for Saigon eaters, especially late night workers. You can smell of barbeque ribs along the alley on Dinh Tien Hoang Street. The ribs are rich, tender and always served hot.


Price: VND30,000 – 45,000 ($1.29 -1.93) for one plate

Opening time: 4 p.m. – 4 a.m.


Pork stomach noodles – Dinh Tien Hoang Street, Binh Thanh District

Also on Dinh Tien Hoang Street is a noodle spot frequented by late workers. The pork stomach is carefully made and cooked, and adds an interesting flavor to the noodles, but is not recommended for people without strong teeth since it can be pretty chewy at times.

rice: VND22,000 – 28,000 ($1 – 1.20) for one plate

Opening time: 7 p.m. – midnight



Pho – Nguyen Tri Phuong Street, District 10

This 50-year-old pho spot is a great choice on late evenings in Saigon, especially on rainy days. The pho here is well known for its tasty broth and delicious meatballs. Just add a poached egg and it will warm any hungry stomach.


Price: VND40,000 – 70,000 ($1.70 – 3) for one bowl

Opening time: 3:30 p.m. – midnight


Crab noodles – Hau Giang Street, District 6

Crab noodles or “bun rieu” has a very special place in Saigon. A bowl of crab noodles with tofu, blood pudding, pork pie and a dash of shrimp paste is irresistible for any food lover. Though some people run the risk of getting a tummy ache because of eating shrimp paste at late night, it is hard to resist the sweet and sour broth made from crab paste.


Price: VND25,000 – 40,000 ($1.07 – 1.72) for one bowl

Opening t
ime: 6 p.m. – 2 a.m.


Cadé sticky rice – Tran Phu Street, District 5

This sticky rice spot has been filled with customers for 40 years, even at midnight. The highlight of the dish is “cadé”, a mixture of ingredients like eggs, sugar, coconut milk, mango or durian, which gives the sticky rice a rich, sweet taste.


Price: VND12,000 ($0.52) for one portion wrapped in banana leaf

Opening time: 5 p.m. – 2 a.m.


Wonton soup – Ha Ton Quyen Street, District 11

Another choice for the night is wonton soup. This Chinese dish comes with many ingredients like shrimp wonton, meatballs and vegetables, which are served with soy sauce. The broth is light and tasty, and a touch of pungency from ground chili makes it perfect.


Price: VND30,000 – 45,000 ($1.29 – 1.93)

Opening time: 2 p.m. – 1:30 a.m.

Rib congee – Tan Dinh Market

On a cool evening you might want to try this amazing rib congee for some warmth. There are so many aspects to this street dish: the smell of ground pepper, the richness of balut, the tenderness of ribs and the crispiness of fried churros quay.


Price: VND15,000 – 35,000 ($0.64 – 1.50)

Opening time: 5 p.m. – 11:30 p.m.


Fried oyster with egg – Phung Hung Street, District 5

This opulent dish found on Phung Hung Street looks like a version of the Vietnamese pancake banh xeo with oysters and can be served with different kinds of sauce such as sweet and sour fish sauce, soy sauce or chili sauce. But if you’re not a fan of fried food you might feel a bit cloyed after a few bites, so make sure you have something to drink while enjoying this dish.


Price: VND60,000 – 70,000 ($2.58 – 3.01)

Opening time: 6:30 p.m. – 11:30 p.m.


Pork cake soup (Banh canh) – Le Quang Dinh Street, Binh Thanh District

Although there is not much on the menu, this little food spot in an alley off Le Quang Dinh Street still attracts many customers regularly. The highlight of the dish is the pork served with a thick sweet and sour fish sauce, which is very addictive. You can also choose from various kinds of noodles on the menu.


Price: VND30000 ($1.29) for one bowl

Opening time: 6 p.m. – 12 a.m.


Pork tripe congee – Phan Dang Luu Street, Phu Nhuan District

The diner starts bustling with customers as the night goes on though it opens early in the afternoon. The congee is cooked in the traditional southern way. A little congee with a few slices of ginger will warm your heart on a chilly night.


Price: VND15,000 ($0.64) for one bowl

Opening time: 1:30 p.m. – 3 a.m.

[Naka_Timo]

Originally Posted by Hurricane88

in Vietnam...there is provincial Police and district Police...district police station always very crowded with ppl making all knids of reports...

every day b4 11pm all hotels must submit their list of clients to the district Police...

every household hv foreigners staying also must report to district Police within a week...

Oh got such a rule. That will be the same in some country too.

[Hurricane88]

So easy to con the ppl who thinking or making easi money...

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CEO absconds as another cryptocurrency firm implodes in Vietnam

By Dy Tung, Dat Nguyen July 29, 2018 | 08:08 am GMT+7


Le Minh Tam, CEO of Sky Mining, met with investors in April 2018.
Over a dozen investors of a cryptocurrency mining company have claimed to be victims of a fraud case after the company's director went missing, allegedly with their money.
Investors and board members of the Ho Chi Minh City-based Sky Mining have not been able to reach Le Minh Tam, its CEO, since Monday.

Investors seeking the company's main office in Phu Nhuan District found the building closed and the company nameplate removed.

They also found that all 600 mining machines in the company's factory in the neighboring Dong Nai Province's Bien Hoa Town had been taken away by a group of people claiming to be maintenance workers.

They suspected that Tam had run away with $35 million from investors.

‘We are victims, too’

The deputy chairman of the company, Le Minh Hieu, said that he has formed a temporary board of 16 people to support investors and calculate the remaining asset of the company.

Hieu said that Tam has gone to the U.S., taking all the money of the company and its investors. He said he was not clear about the details of the company’s assets as Tam had directly managed the mining rigs and storage.

“[The board] has reported this to the police and showed evidence that we are not guilty,” said Hieu, who said many investors have threatened to hurt his family.

“We are victims too,” he told VnExpress.

A group of 20 investors have filed a petition on the alleged fraud with the police of Ward 9 in Phu Nhuan District, where Sky Mining was located.


Sky Mining organized several events to attract investors. Screenshot taken from Sky Mining's video on Youtube

‘Largest’ in Vietnam

On its website, Sky Mining claimed to specialize in purchasing computers to solve algorithms, a process known as cryptocurrency mining.

It invited investors to buy a computer system that performs the necessary computations for mining, known as the mining rig.

Investors need to pay $100 to $5,000 for each of these rigs, which will be kept at Sky Mining’s 26 storage spots all over the country for mining.

Sky Mining promises that after 12 months, investors would earn back all their initial investment in addition to a profit of up to 300 percent. Investors will have to return the mining machines to Sky Mining after that period.

Active since March, the company has acquired 7,000 mining rigs, investors said.

It also promised to pay commission to investors who invite more people to join the company.

The company hosted numerous events to attract investors in Hanoi and HCMC, where leaders of Sky Mining claimed that it was the “largest” cryptocurrency mining company in Vietnam.

‘Last resort’

After two days of hiding, Sky Mining CEO Tam published a note on a Facebook group for investors on Wednesday, apologizing for the “everything.”

Tam said that the market was unpredictable, mining rig value had dropped drastically and profitability had fallen.

“My last resort is to stay hidden from public to protect my life,” he said.

He also told investors to go to the company to recover the capital they have invested, and that after all the work is done, he would declare bankruptcy.

But when investors reached the office, it was empty.

Same story

The Sky Mining fraud is similar to that of another tech company in Ho Chi Minh City’s District 1 that was stormed by investors demanding refunds in April.

The investors said that the IT firm, Modern Tech, had cheated them of VND15 trillion ($650 million) with a cryptocurrency ponzi scheme.

The modus operandi was similar to other scams. The company guaranteed that the lowest interest investors would receive was 48 percent per month, with a payback period of less than four months.

The alleged $650 million loss is 150 times larger than Modern Tech’s initial equity of $4.4 million invested by a group of only eight people who founded the company in October 2017.

Modern Tech representatives until now have not responded to the accusations, and its founders have remained incommunicado.

Vietnam imported a total of 6,400 cryptocurrency mining systems in the first four months of the year, according to official data.

The country has constantly been in the top five countries with the highest traffic to the Bitcoin trading platform and Bitcoin news site, CryptoCompare data shows.

Despite proposals to legalize Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, authorities have asserted that they are not legitimate in Vietnam.

[Hurricane88]

So easi to cheap and this time using Expedia...two years ago, I remembered I reach then buy ticket 600k per ticket...and just join others...altogether about 20 of us one boat...no overnight...

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Spanish family books Ha Long Bay cruise on non-existent vessel

By Vy An July 29, 2018 | 03:11 pm GMT+7


Authorities are investigating how a Spanish family was cheated into booking a Ha Long Bay cruise on a vessel no longer in service.

A Spanish couple and their three children were stranded at the Tuan Chau Wharf on Thursday after they found that the vessel they’d booked for an overnight cruise on the Ha Long Bay had not been in service for several years.

The booking was made in March on Expedia.es, which collected $746 for a two-night tour on the Paragon Legend.

Some cruise ship owners at the wharf said the Paragon Legend had stopped operating in the bay several years ago. The management board of the bay also confirmed that there was no ship with that name active in the bay.

On learning of the family’s plight, the owner of the Pelican cruise decided to offer the Spanish family a free two-day-one-night tour of the world famous bay.


A local cruise ship owner offers a free two-day-one-night trip for the Spanish family on his Pelican cruise ship. Photo by Lighthouse Vu

Ho Quang Huy, vice chairman of Ha Long City, said local authorities are investigating the incident. He said the probe was hampered by the fact that the online site where the tourists made the booking had no server in Vietnam.

Ha Long Bay in Quang Ninh Province is one of Vietnam's biggest tourism magnets. The bay has been hailed by the U.S. travel guide site Smarter Travel as one of the best ecological spots in the world, while Business Insider has said that an overnight Ha Long cruise trip is a “must-try” travel experience in Asia.

The bay welcomed more than 28,000 foreigners during the first four months this year, according to the Quang Ninh tourism department.

[snipeshot08]

Originally Posted by Hurricane88

haha...cont to sulk and yet you still visit the country...is all about mindset and happiness index...

This forum is for like-minded forumners to share both nice & bad experiences so labeling somebody whom shared their bad experiences with others (so that others are aware) as "sulking" is not too appropriate as there are more than 10 HCM regular experienced SBF travelling kaki here that are quiet readers & knows the real situation

Moreover your sentence already contradicks each other, if we are so-called "sulking" then why are we still visiting there on every other week leh tio bo???

The reason is simply becos your analogy is incorrect as both are never fully equated.....i.e. nobody visits a country just simply becos the customs is nice and vice-versa nobody stops visiting a country just simply the customs are fark-tup this is what mindset index is all about ^_^

Cheerios.....SS08 ^_^

[snipeshot08]

Originally Posted by Hurricane88

wow...lidat oso can...yet he can advise newbies...

No lah I was just poking fun at him as sometimes he arrives late so he asked us to help him change first cos we arrive very early in the morning, this way we can save more time for cheonging

He has the same amount of more than 20 to 30 years travelling time to Wetnam as me so yup he is fully qualified to advise newbies

Cheerios......SS08 ^_^

[snipeshot08]

Originally Posted by Hurricane88

10 places to eat the night away in Saigon

By Vi Yen July 29, 2018 | 06:00 pm GMT+7

Seriously tho out of all the asian cuntries I travelled to I still prefer wetnamese cuisine especially the SSSSYTs kind

Cheerios......SS08 ^_^

[snipeshot08]

Originally Posted by Hurricane88

So easy to con the ppl who thinking or making easi money...

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CEO absconds as another cryptocurrency firm implodes in Vietnam

By Dy Tung, Dat Nguyen July 29, 2018 | 08:08 am GMT+7

They suspected that Tam had run away with $35 million from investors.

Wah 35m usd??????? can live like a king in any cuntry liao

Cheerios......SS08 ^_^

[Hurricane88]

Originally Posted by Naka_Timo

Oh got such a rule. That will be the same in some country too.

This policy had been in place for many years.....

[Hurricane88]

Originally Posted by snipeshot08

He has the same amount of more than 20 to 30 years travelling time to Wetnam as me so yup he is fully qualified to advise newbies

Cheerios......SS08 ^_^

Wow...20 to 30 years ago already flying to Vietnam...I only have 10 years experiences...

if count my biz trip back in 1997/8 then yes, 20 years ago...20 yrs ago, TSN using only 1 terminal...

[Hurricane88]

Originally Posted by snipeshot08

The reason is simply becos your analogy is incorrect as both are never fully equated.....i.e. nobody visits a country just simply becos the customs is nice and vice-versa nobody stops visiting a country just simply the customs are fark-tup this is what mindset index is all about ^_^

Cheerios.....SS08 ^_^

To me the worst immigration was in San Francisco USA...anyway only witness once back many moons ago..

[iicycold]

Originally Posted by snipeshot08

Oh no another competitor

competitor ovr who? SYT? or fake syt? lol

tis below is online using cam tech 2 change a no pretty ger into syt...lol...if u or ani one can watch til the endin of video,i thumbs u up!



tis is onli first part...& with these ger add on make up,the ugliest ger can aso becum SYTSSS....lol

watch 1 of the 2 below strip make up 2 the end....see if ani one can tahan...lol



tis one is frm ugly 2 syt using make up....lol...the vid say tere's no ugly ger in the world,onli hv tose who dn't knw make up or put tech into fool use...lol



...lol...btw,most man aso can becum syt....lol



...& below is hw 2 do it?

ani man aso can becum syt....lol...weather old or young,can make mani turn their head 2 look @ em....lol

vids abv all is jus 4 fun postin onli....enjoy ya!

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[Hurricane88]

Originally Posted by iicycold

ani man aso can becum syt....lol...weather old or young,can make mani turn their head 2 look @ em....lol

vids abv all is jus 4 fun postin onli....enjoy ya!

Thought I saw this photos before in earlier post...oops you quoting...

You cannot change SS08 mindset and been donkey years his taste for ssyts....

[Director]

Originally Posted by Hurricane88

wow...lidat oso can...yet he can advise newbies...

Was based in Hcm from 1994-2000. After that traveling in and out for business and pleasure. 24 years of cheonging/working in hcm allows me to at least share where to change currency in Ben Thanh market to newbies. Hahaha.

[Director]

Originally Posted by Hurricane88

Wow...20 to 30 years ago already flying to Vietnam...I only have 10 years experiences...

if count my biz trip back in 1997/8 then yes, 20 years ago...20 yrs ago, TSN using only 1 terminal...

Back in the days banh mi was only 2000 vnd. Tips in Ktv was 20000 vnd. Nowadays wash hair girls demand 500k . How time flies.