Category: Vietnam

From: 15 Things about Vietnam (2016) There are some small-to-medium-sized differences between Southern and Northern Vietnamese and a degree of underlying tension between them. Much of the tension arises from the War. Some Southerners believe that the Northerners have used the Northern victory in the War to enrich themselves and generally grind the noses of…

From: 15 Things about Vietnam (2016) Across the board, Vietnamese food is cheap, delicious and… not for the faint-hearted. Large Vietnamese cities have vast selections of food stalls and curbside restaurants where Vietnamese people can be seen eating, drinking, yelling and turfing their chicken bones into the street until late into the night… In time…

From: 15 Things about Vietnam (2016) Vietnamese women’s second biggest complaint about Vietnamese men is, as a female friend once put it, that they “spend a lot of time drinking beer with their buddies and talking loudly about random topics all day long”. (Vietnamese women’s biggest complaint is that many Vietnamese men are blatantly unfaithful,…

From: 15 Things about Vietnam (2016) If you’ve been thinking of making a trip to Vietnam, you’ve probably heard that the Vietnamese language is 16 times more difficult to learn than French or Spanish. That, ladies and gentlemen, is the bad news. The good news is – if you do end up learning Vietnamese and…

From: 15 Things about Vietnam (2016) (A) The wedding itself A big fat Vietnamese wedding is something all Western visitors to Vietnam should try to get themselves invited to. A big fat Vietnamese wedding is generally composed of an intimate traditional ceremony in the homes of the bride and groom in the morning and an…