{"id":1104,"date":"2024-01-13T05:03:22","date_gmt":"2024-01-13T05:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aerowalsh.com\/cr\/?p=1104"},"modified":"2025-09-01T10:16:29","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T10:16:29","slug":"fri-12th-jan-saigon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cr.aerowalsh.com\/?p=1104","title":{"rendered":"Fri 12th Jan – Saigon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Cultural unit: Traditional Vietnamese medicine museum. It’s a bit of a struggle to stretch this to an entire cultural unit. DW – Cholon itself is culture due to it being a distinct region of Saigon (world’s biggest chinatown, whatever that means).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Luxe unit: Luke Nguyen’s restaurant Vietnam House.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The international and sophisticated Caitlin enjoying a morning coffee in the hotel. Caitlin has conniptions if there is more than a 5 minute delay before having her coffee. I want to walk to Chinatown this morning for dumplings which is more than 5 minutes, so this solution is embraced by Cait. DW.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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I am making Caitlin go to Cholon (Chinatown) for our activity. It has yummy dumplings and culture. Unfortunately, it is very far away and we need to make many pitstops to street vendors to enable the journey. I am sensing today is the day we get the street sweats. DW. This stop in particular is fresh spring roll. CR.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A (custard) Apple authorized reseller. DW<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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I am hot and walking so slowly the dragon dancers catch up with us and ask us questions in English. CR. I suspected they were flirting with Cait, so I enforced a hurry along. DW<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Two tasty treats for Caitlin. Declan’s taken us to some really interesting places. The Lonely Planet declared Saigon as unwalkable, so Declan’s taken it as a mission to prove them wrong. I am very hot and sweaty right now. Dumps were good, a set cost a little over $2aud which is really going to confuse me next time I am at yum cha in Sydney. CR. These were very yummy dumps. I believe it is important to keep Cait grounded. DW<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n