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Friday, March 4, 2011


Vietnamese zha chai peng

Just had vietnamese zha chai peng at one of the local coffeeshops for lunch.
1 meat + 1 toufu + 1 veg + 1 bowl of soup = VND 30,000
That's less than SGD 2. Cheap rite?
One thing I noticed about zha chai peng stalls here. U know how in SG, pple automatically form a line (i.e. QUEUE) and when it's their turn, u point to the stall fella (who would already be holding a plate of rice) which dishes u want, rite? Here in vietnam, there might be a line, but pple can hop into the line at any point and any time. When I say "hop", I actually mean "push". And besides pointing to the dishes, pple are also screaming out random vietnamese words. I can only assume that they're calling out the names of the dishes they want.
"FISH!!!"
"TOUFU!!!"
"VEGE!!!"
"NO, NOT THAT VEGE, THE OTHER VEGE!!!"


I have concluded that vietnamese zha chai peng stalls are exactly like the traffic here.
No order at all.


After lunch, Ngoc brought me to look for a mobile phone shop. The HTC USB cable that the baba boy bought me back in SG was broken, so I was in search of a new cable. Otherwise cannot charge my phone.
When we reached the supposed mobile phone shop, it was closed. I thot it was either closed for the entire day, or closed for good. But Ngoc said in Vietnam, pple like to take afternoon naps. So the shop owner probably closed the shop to take a nap, and would reopen at 2pm.
WTH !!!
Can lidat wan meh??!!
In SG, lunch hour is like the golden period for shops to make money. (Ok, maybe ranking after "weekends" and "after office hours".) Just check out the lunch crowd in the CBD! Anyone would be an idiot to close their shop during lunch hour in SG!


PS: Feel like changing my blog layout, except that I'm still in love with that cartoon pic at the side. And also quite sick of blogspot's ineptness to perform certain supposedly simple functions, feel like switching to wordpress.


PPS: Internet connection's damn slow today. Maybe the internet also realises that it's friday, and so it shouldn't be working so hard ..... -_-

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