Night out in Saigon

I came on this trip super judgy about people that come all the way over to this country and don't eat their food. I was going to eat pho every day and try absolutely everything. If there was a hostile nearby, we would frequently every pass an Italian, Mexican or American place I would just turn my nose up. However, I got there today..... I simply could not eat another piece of fish or shrimp. So we went to the craft brew place around the corner, had a flight of locally brewed IPA and Stout. After tasting a selection of six, decided on a half pint of Jasmine IPA that was delicious, then proceeded to have hand cut sweet potato fries, and a hot Nashville chicken sandwich. Complete heaven. To top it off, Mark spotted a speakeasy around the corner so we proceeded up the dark stairwell to this dimly lit room and had a quite civilized cocktail.

The bartender climbed up on the bar to literally get the top shelf scotch that Mark wanted, Spring Branch. Very cozy, definitely could not get drunk because you would kill yourself going down the four flights stairs, but it is right around the corner from our hotel. Dark, quiet, sexy and we had a nice, deep conversation about what we had learned from our travels so far. Then went down the stairs, immediately were hit with the smoke from the raw chicken cooking over charcoal on the sidewalk outside the door, trash on the other side of the door, loud music, people eating and partying everywhere around us. It was like we had a small vacation from Vietnam and then we were back in it 🙂En savoir plus