Hanoi vs Ho Chi Minh City - where's best for what ?

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The only reason I go to Bui Vien is for the Indian restaurant. It is a complete and utter shit hole otherwise with frequent fights, scams, rip-offs, ugly slappers and way to many back-packers and English teachers.
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hanno wrote: Tue Dec 05, 2017 4:22 pm The only reason I go to Bui Vien is for the Indian restaurant. It is a complete and utter shit hole otherwise with frequent fights, scams, rip-offs, ugly slappers and way to many back-packers and English teachers.
thats why its so good for people watching,
you go to baba? they had the best dam briyani ever and i grew up in singapore with a large south indian population :beer3:
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Baba's kitchen indeed. Pretty good (and I grew up with a lot of Indians and went to an Indian school).
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hanno wrote: Wed Dec 06, 2017 4:53 am Baba's kitchen indeed. Pretty good (and I grew up with a lot of Indians and went to an Indian school).
So Hanno is a german hotelier / photographer who grew up with indians in kenya whilst also living in Cambodia 20 years whilst somehow also living in south africa.
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Hanoi is the ticket.
Lots to see and eat, the Temple of Literature, cheap beer on the street, Hoan Kiem Lake. And they love Uncle Ho. Great value for your money.
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Beerinthemorning wrote: Wed Dec 06, 2017 5:27 am
hanno wrote: Wed Dec 06, 2017 4:53 am Baba's kitchen indeed. Pretty good (and I grew up with a lot of Indians and went to an Indian school).
So Hanno is a german hotelier / photographer who grew up with indians in kenya whilst also living in Cambodia 20 years whilst somehow also living in south africa.
Possible he grew up in Kenya and South Africa and then moved to Cambodia? Like many of us.

I grew up in Denmark and Sweden and now I here.
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that genius wrote: Wed Dec 06, 2017 7:56 am
Beerinthemorning wrote: Wed Dec 06, 2017 5:27 am
hanno wrote: Wed Dec 06, 2017 4:53 am Baba's kitchen indeed. Pretty good (and I grew up with a lot of Indians and went to an Indian school).
So Hanno is a german hotelier / photographer who grew up with indians in kenya whilst also living in Cambodia 20 years whilst somehow also living in south africa.
But you are that genious..
Possible he grew up in Kenya and South Africa and then moved to Cambodia? Like many of us.

I grew up in Denmark and Sweden and now I here.
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Beerinthemorning wrote: Wed Dec 06, 2017 5:27 am
hanno wrote: Wed Dec 06, 2017 4:53 am Baba's kitchen indeed. Pretty good (and I grew up with a lot of Indians and went to an Indian school).
So Hanno is a german hotelier / photographer who grew up with indians in kenya whilst also living in Cambodia 20 years whilst somehow also living in south africa.
Yeah well, unlike you, I have actually lived/live an interesting life. Oh, and nowhere have I claimed to have lived in Cambodia for 20 years though I have also lived in China, UAE, and Europe.
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hanno wrote: Wed Dec 06, 2017 11:42 am
Beerinthemorning wrote: Wed Dec 06, 2017 5:27 am
hanno wrote: Wed Dec 06, 2017 4:53 am Baba's kitchen indeed. Pretty good (and I grew up with a lot of Indians and went to an Indian school).
So Hanno is a german hotelier / photographer who grew up with indians in kenya whilst also living in Cambodia 20 years whilst somehow also living in south africa.
Yeah well, unlike you, I have actually lived/live an interesting life. Oh, and nowhere have I claimed to have lived in Cambodia for 20 years though I have also lived in China, UAE, and Europe.
Interestingly uninteresting.

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