L'usine - a good cafe place with the shop-in-shop concept

The coffee-shop style in Saigon is something really incredible! Probably nowhere in the world has that much to offer like here. Everywhere - from right on the street, very cheap one, to those huge places, good and popular for the majority…up to the real classy for young trendsetters.
Whatever taste you have, you definitely find something suitable, I guess. Before people just need a cup of black coffee to start a working day…but now having a coffee at a nice place could be a new lifestyle, a true pleasure.

            A corner at L'usine - a nice place to have coffee and light food in Saigon. 

Christmas weekend in Saigon

Only a few days left to Christmas. Weeks before we already feel the holiday atmosphere, the hurry-up mood everywhere in the city, especially this morning, probably thanks to the cold air from North, Saigon's weather is suddenly and unusually getting colder . Perfect for X-mas time. In the North, up to Sapa, the highland, it's recently heavily snowing. Imagine…snowing in Vietnam, it's not a global warming!?  

             To avoid the night crowd many young people prefer the morning shoot.  

"Vitamin" drink ?

Vitamin drink - it sounds funny, and it's not a drink mixed with various medicine, it's actually the way we call a blended fruit drink (very similar to fruit smoothie) in Vietnamese - sinh tố (i.e vitamin). To be honest I don't know how we came up with this name, surely because of the fruits. Sinh tố was, still always remains a very popular, favourite and healthy drink like coffee in Saigon (coffee is healthy?!) Everywhere here you can find a small stall of sinh tố, but the good place could be hidden somewhere else in a small alley of the big city.