Jan 31st, 2012 at 6:00PM:
Each morning in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, mobile street vendors brave the city's frenetic traffic to hawk breakfast specialties like banana patties, pho, and other popular Vietnamese street foods. A typical Monday morning scene is captured in today's monochrome Photo of the Day from Flickr user Jeryc Garcia.
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Photo of the Day: Monday morning in Ho Chi Minh City
Jan 31st, 2012 at 6:00PM:
Each morning in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, mobile street vendors brave the city's frenetic traffic to hawk breakfast specialties like banana patties, pho, and other popular Vietnamese street foods. A typical Monday morning scene is captured in today's monochrome Photo of the Day from Flickr user Jeryc Garcia.
Does your photo belong here? Upload your favorite travel shots to the Gadling ...Photo of the Day: Overcast Saigon
May 29th, 2011 at 6:00PM:
Anyone that's ever visited Southeast Asia knows about the region's frequent rainstorms. Particularly during monsoon season, the heavens often open up without warning on travelers, forcing you to run for cover to avoid getting soaked. Today's photo, brought to us by Flickr user _jeryc garcia_, is an all-too-familiar visual reminder of these Southeast Asian monsoons. Taken in Saigon, it looks as ...Top ten cheap local fast food items worldwide
Dec 2nd, 2010 at 10:30AM: Food is usually a major cost on the road, a significant component of any careful travel budget. Very good, inexpensive food is on offer in most of the world's destinations, no matter how expensive average meals may be. Here are ten delicious fast food items from ten different destinations around the world.
1. Burritos, San Francisco. San Franciscans are passionate about their burritos. It's ...Vietnamese street food tastes better by motorbike
Sep 1st, 2010 at 3:00PM: There are few things I enjoy more than perching on a plastic, Playskool-size stool on a steaming sidewalk, surrounded by clouds of carbon monoxide. Why do I so enjoy impersonating a contortionist and inhaling carcinogens? Because it means I'm somewhere in Southeast Asia, eating street food.
On my first visit to Vietnam, I flew up to Nha Trang, on the South Central Coast. I found a cheap hotel ...South by Southeast: Top 10 Southeast Asia
Mar 19th, 2010 at 9:00AM:
There's a lot to see in Southeast Asia. Over the past five months, as I've traveled through this amazing region, it's something I've experienced firsthand. From mind-blowing jungle ruins to outstanding food and world class beaches, there's a never-ending wealth of curiosities for visitors. But with so much to see and do, it's hard to know what to prioritize. Is Angkor Wat really as awesome as ...South by Southeast: Eating in Saigon
Feb 16th, 2010 at 9:00AM:
Amniotic fluid tastes like chicken soup. At least, that is, the amniotic fluid that comes from Hot Vit Lon, a Vietnamese delicacy consisting of an duck egg with a half-formed baby chick nested inside. As I squatted on a flimsy plastic chair in one of Saigon's labyrinth of steamy back-alleys, with a cracked-open Hot Vit Lon in one hand, sweaty bottle of Saigon beer in the other, I had to wonder ...Catching the Travel Bug: Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam
Oct 30th, 2008 at 1:00PM: Welcome to Catching the Travel Bug, Gadling's mini-series on getting sick on the road, prevailing and loving travel throughout. Five of our bloggers will be telling their stories from around the globe for the next five weeks. Submit your best story about catching the travel bug in the comments and we'll publish our favorite few at the end of the series. SARS. The subject was worked into every ...Symbol of Saigon: Cyclos to be completely banned by June 2008
Mar 2nd, 2008 at 12:00PM: It was a hot afternoon in Saigon. I was sitting in a small plastic chair, busy drinking an iced Vietnamese coffee, when a smiling man came up to me. "City cyclo tour? I give best one. So good, I'm in magazine. Magazine comes by I wave and say hello and they take picture." Sure enough, there he was smiling brightly, smack dab in the center of a long article about cyclo city tours. When I told him ...GADLING TAKE FIVE: Week of December 22-28
Dec 28th, 2007 at 5:30PM: Because Catherine is stuck at the Dallas Airport right now trying to get back to Alaska, I'm bringing you this week's GADLING TAKE FIVE. Stay-tuned for Catherine's tales of her holiday travels. In the meantime, here's what happened this week in the midst of holiday mayhem.
Seriously, it's very hard to choose from what's written each week so I'm turning to the numbers game. For starters, here are ...Christmas in Saigon
Dec 25th, 2007 at 4:00PM: Nothing helps you realize you're eight thousand miles away from home better than spending the holidays in a foreign country. Last year, traveling through Southeast Asia with my parents we found ourselves at the Oscar Hotel in downtown Ho Chi Minh City (still called Saigon by the locals), Vietnam over Christmas Eve. An interesting way that tourism has seized the country is the Vietnamese ...
