Sorry if you weren’t able to reach me by phone for the past 24 hours
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Eating chicken wings with tiny finger condoms at a bar in Saigon
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Vietnam had decided to recognize me as Viet Kieu so I’m allowed to continue visiting this country, visa-free!
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Building a My Neighbor Totoro pizza oven out of mud at #Saigon Outcast
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My friend’s old Honda Cub w/ hand-painted license plate #Vietnam
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Ketchup vs. chili sauce. How we roll in #Vietnam
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Saigonist Blog
- Entrepreneurs everywhere: Surveying the startup scene in Vietnam April 12, 2013[Are you an investor interested in investing in Vietnam, especially in startups? This blog post comes from conversations with visiting investors from other countries and answering a lot of questions they had in common.] For years, tech startups in Vietnam operated in a sort of vacuum, with no local ecosystem to help them. Of course, this didn't stop the […]
- Start your startup in Kansas City, or Vietnam February 15, 2013Boulder's big VC investor dude Brad Feld has a house in Kansas City now. He doesn't live there, even for just part of the year, but he owns it. He's letting YOU live there. For free. FREE!!! But should you live in Kansas City (a mid-sized town in the American southwest midwestern state of Missouri) to bootstrap your startup? If the rent is fre […]
- A Foreigner in Vietnam During Tet February 1, 2013A Quiet American in a Quiet Vietnam About two weeks after I first arrived in Saigon, it began: Tet. What a horrible mistake, being in Vietnam right at that time! Tet, being the single Vietnamese holiday that is equivalent to Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year in one long week that often stretches to a month for many students as well as laborours. While pr […]
- Vung Tau Travel Basics - From Ho Chi Minh City January 29, 2013Any important city on the planet exists either because it was a port on the sea or was at a strategic point on a river. Few historic cities exist in the middle of deserts or forests not near any major water sources. Saigon is a river town not a seaside town. It lies near the mouth of the mighty Mekong River, but still some distance from the ocean. But for mo […]
- Facebook via SMS in Vietnam - Viettel December 8, 2012Viettel, Vietnam's military-owned telecom, has opened up direct Facebook integration via sms to Viettel mobile phone subscribers. This is an officially supported way for Vietnamese people to access Facebook on the go without a computer or smartphone. This is targeting Vietnamese people who mainly access the internet at internet cafes and so using this t […]
- 10 Days of Sitting: Vipassana Meditation in Vietnam November 17, 2012From the October 31st to November 11th I attended a Vipassana meditation course/retreat on the outskirts of Ho Chi Minh City. On the fourth day, we got to eat: yogurt. I was so happy that day. Five Precepts: No killing, no stealing, no sexual misconduct, no lying, no drinking alcohol read more
- How to take a motorbike taxi and pay the right price without getting ripped off October 29, 2012As a tourist or expat living in Vietnam you'll get used to hearing "xe om" (motorbike taxi) guys call for you - by yelling "You!" - at every street corner offering to take you places you probably don't want to go and otherwise offering you drugs and/or prostitutes. And if you're here alone while in Vietnam then it will ofte […]
- Medical tourism to and from Vietnam: Which hospitals should an expat in Vietnam go to for treatment? October 24, 2012A hospice is where you go to die. Too often, a hospital is the same thing. And it's by design! Where else do you see concentrated so many germ-infested people with weakened immune systems concentrate in one place coughing all over each other? I heard once that half of hospital deaths, probably moreso in developing countries, could be attributed to uncle […]
- A night at the emergency room in a Vietnamese hospital October 23, 2012As I was standing at the building's entrance between two never-closing sliding doors while trying to catch a breeze at midnight on a weekday, a Honda SH (a ludicrously expensive motorbike) pulled up right next to me - actually pulling right into the hospital's ER waiting room. Held up between the motorbike's driver and a passenger was an overw […]
- Bootstrap Abroad - Cheaply Bootstrap Your Startup from Vietnam October 16, 2012Hackation. That's what people are calling hackathons (sponsored hackathons!) away from home. It could be in NYC, Bali, Berlin. But a lot of people are moving to the Bay Area or quitting their good-paying jobs in the Bay Area and sticking around and building their startup product from there. There are a lot of good reasons to be near Silicon Valley when […]
