P.S My Hanoi pictures are on Facebook.

Things about Vietnam:

1) They eat dog meat as easily as we eat chicken meat.

2) They eat dog meat at the end of the month and cat meat at the beginning of the month.

3) Their coffee is rich.

4) Trying to cross their roads needs skill

5) About 80 percent of their vehicle population is made up of motorcycles

6) Most motorists don't care about traffic lights

7) Motorists horn like we breathe. It's super noisy on vietnam roads because there's always 'Beep beep beep!'. It's probably just music to them- they horn freely and sometimes for no reason.

8) It is easy to haggle in the Night market at Halong Bay( I got a bag at 3 SG dollars and 4 necklaces at around 10 dollars,which is the price for ONE necklace in Singapore.)

9) Shopping at Hanoi is not really good coz prices aren't much far off from SG and they sell almost the same things.

10) Shopping centres that sell branded overseas goods( Chanel, Prada, Addidas, Puma, Nike, Burberry, Dr Martens etc) ARE SUPER EXPENSIVE. They burn your butt off. Don't expect the price to be cheaper than in Singapore. On the contrary, it is around 50 percent to 100 percent higher than in Singapore=((

11) Their hotels provide good service. Just find a reliable one and you will be impressed.

12) The food and drinks in the hotel room are complimentary,unlike in China or Malaysia where you have to pay. But beer is not.

13) By the way, beer in hanoi is much better than beer in Singapore. Even their Heinekein(did i spell it correctly) is better.

14) You MUST visit Halong Bay and Ho-Chi Minh Musuem if you go there.

15) All of the women there wear skinny jeans and they all sell very trendy jeans( in Hanoi)


16) Most men in vietnam stay at home while women work. It's opposite from SG

17) Their food is light(qing dan),which is why Vietnamese are mostly petite/small and skinny.

18) Their traditional costume is really pretty but you better have a trimmed waist as abit of the waist is exposed.

19) Some sellers quote you a price and when you give them more money,expecting them to give you change, they pretend what you've given is what they quoted or give you lesser change than what you should get. So count your change and it's best to give them the exact value.