Vietnam for the weekend where to go!

[Aliya]

HCMC to be exact. Where to go during the day to get some paintings and where to go for a good fusion - but not $$$$ - dinner?

And any other fun things to do in one day and 2 nights...

[daffodil]

Honeymoon, lah?

[Lichtgestalt]

Stay away from the fusion food and go for decent local food

[chocolate]

Kooky and I ate in somewhere with a similar ethos in Hanoi

Sésame
Add: 153 Xo Viet Nghe Tinh street
Tel: 899 3378
Email: triangleghvn@hcmc.netnam.vn
Set meals: 90,000-120,000d
Opened hour: 11.30am-2pm and 6.30-9.30pm
Another hospitality training school for disadvantages! or orphaned children, Sésame was set up by the French NGO Triangle Generation Hu-manitaire. Outside on the flagstone patio, bamboo-strip tables await, adorned with candles and gerbera daisies. The butter-yellow walls in the dining room are brightly inviting as well. French-Vietnamese dishes made with fresh local ingredients are delicious and beautifully presented, and the sweet staff are eager to please.

I ate here with my mum in HCMC - its set in an oldstyle colonial villa - beautiful setting, excellent food!
Camargue Restaurant
In 2 Trip Plans »

http://travel.nytimes.com/travel/guides ... etail.html
16 Cao Ba Quat, Ho Chi Minh City Vietnam

[expat yorkshire]

Saigon Saigon for sundowner Cocktails

Sheraton bar overlooking the city for sundowner Cocktails

Rex hotel for Sundowner cocktails

[BoD]

Kooky and I ate in somewhere with a similar ethos in Hanoi

Sésame
Add: 153 Xo Viet Nghe Tinh street
Tel: 899 3378
Email: triangleghvn@hcmc.netnam.vn
Set meals: 90,000-120,000d
Opened hour: 11.30am-2pm and 6.30-9.30pm
Another hospitality training school for disadvantages! or orphaned children, Sésame was set up by the French NGO Triangle Generation Hu-manitaire. Outside on the flagstone patio, bamboo-strip tables await, adorned with candles and gerbera daisies. The butter-yellow walls in the dining room are brightly inviting as well. French-Vietnamese dishes made with fresh local ingredients are delicious and beautifully presented, and the sweet staff are eager to please.

I ate here with my mum in HCMC - its set in an oldstyle colonial villa - beautiful setting, excellent food!
Camargue Restaurant
In 2 Trip Plans »

http://travel.nytimes.com/travel/guides ... etail.html
16 Cao Ba Quat, Ho Chi Minh City Vietnam

Sounds similar to a place we went to. The building was indeed nice. The staff were incredibly keen - if amusingly dreadful, and the food was on the less than edible side. Still, it was for a good cause

EPY - what's the name of that place next to the Blue Ghecko where you grill your own meat on the little burners? Now, that was excellent

There must be old posts from JJ on this somewhere. She had a big long list of places to go

Oh, and if Batty tells you the address of a handbag shop, make sure she has the city right

[Scrummy Mummy]

I was going to suggest you ask EPY as he's been there a gazillion times.

As it turns out, I would second all of his suggestions.

You're not taking the girls,I presume?

[Queenie]

Ipa-Nima for handbags. Narvey Nichols sells them for more than double the price!

[expat yorkshire]

The place next to Blue gekko has gone.

[expat yorkshire]

Some cards for you ..... Kims cafe is really a backpacker place but you can go there to book a private car with guide for a day trip

[Tas]

thankyou EPY, I'm heading back over there in a couple mths for work as well. Having been at least once, feeling much more confident about the layout this time. Stuck with a bunch of people this time, but with luck will escape to do some evening look about. If anyone can find JJ's old Vietnam files, please pass on, her recommendations are always a standout as well.

[Scrummy Mummy]

Nice Boobs, EPY!

[expat yorkshire]

The lovely Myleene

[Kooky]

If anyone can find JJ's old Vietnam files, please pass on, her recommendations are always a standout as well.

Sorry, I saved threads on Hanoi, Cambodia, Climbing Mt Kinabalu...how to make a pavlova, and many, many others, but can't seem to find one on HCMC.

(Seriously, if anybody remembers and wants an old thread, do ask. I managed to C&P some that came up regularly.)

[BoD]

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