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Cultural unit: War Remnants Museum. Declan tells me that it used to be called something like “War Atrocities Museum”. It’s not fun and and gets progressively more horrific. I miss the museums in the North that were for the captured Americans, where they reportedly got to sample Vietnamese local foods and go on cultural day trips. Captured communist Vietnamese in the south had a rougher time…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Luxury unit: Trung Nguyen Legend coffee and two (!) cool bars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Premium coffee chain Trung Nguyen Legend is now the only place Declan will have his brew. The cashier does a world class upsell. I try and order my coffee and she says this is too sweet, and I am instructed to order a more expensive coffee. When ordering Declan’s, she says that this is instant coffee, do I really want this? She can make with real coffee, I say ‘uhhh okay’ and am only then told ‘the price, the price is different’. But with names like the ‘legend’ coffee and the ‘success’ coffee, this is a small price to pay for greatness. Coming in at around $10aud each, this counts as 0.1 luxury units. CR.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Sitting on your motorcycle right in the middle of the footpath, shoes off, smoking ciggies, is key to relaxation in Vietnamese cities. CR. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n