Exploring Saigon and Beyond - Saigoneer
Đi Bão Is Vietnamese Culture at Its Most Jubilant, Raucous, and Fervent. Dustbins, tree branches, advertising stands and tarps, leftover Christmas decorations, whatever pot, pan, ladle or utensil left unattended in the family kitchen, and at least one street vendor’s bánh khọt mold: whatever wasn’t bolted down got caught up in the wave of đi bão that filled Saigon’s streets last ...
Exploring Saigon and Beyond - Saigoneer
The Vintage Charm of 1995 Vietnam on Kodachrome Film Slides. While editing a retrospective of my recent work from Vietnam in the summer of 2019, I discovered 50 yellow boxes of Kodachrome slides in my basement that were shot in 1995.
Exploring Saigon and Beyond - Saigoneer
Requiem for a Bàng Tree That Was Cut Down in Front of My Home. Curiosity drove me downstairs into the downpour. Out of the corner of my eye, I spotted the municipal workers — clad in orange-and-green uniforms, their clothes soaked — gathering around a crane.
Exploring Saigon and Beyond - Saigoneer
The Cultural Depths in Contemporary Hip-Hop Dance ‘129BPM: Động Phách Tách Kén’ Have you ever witnessed a live performance so powerful that it still lives in your mind weeks later? “129BPM: Động Phách Tách Kén” is not your usual hip-hop breakdance battle, but a contemporary dance performance combining live music with Vietnamese folk elements.
Life in Saigon's Old Tenements, the Remaining Vertical Villages of …
6 天之前 · Trigger. Is “out with the old, in with the new” the new motto when it comes to Saigon's real estate scene? Saigon used to be full of old apartment buildings; some were built in the 1950s or 1960s while others could be dated back to French colonial times.
Saigon - Saigoneer
A Brief History of Cung Văn Hóa Lao Động and Saigon's First Swimming Pool. Once a fashionable rendezvous for the elite of colonial society, the Labour Culture Palace (Cung Văn hoá Lao động) at 55B Nguyễn Thị Minh Khai is today one of Hồ Chí Minh City’s most popular spor...
A Shelf-Stable History of Why Vietnam Loves Mì Gói
1 天前 · Google Doodle for Momofuku Ando on his 105 th birthday.. In his autobiography, Momofuku writes: “I happened to be passing by this area and saw a 20-30 meters long line of people queuing in front of a dimly lit ramen shop, from which clouds of steam were rising from.People were underdressed for the weather and were shivering under the cold. [...] Their faces lit up as they slurped the bowl of ...
The Saigonese - Saigoneer
When it comes to the city’s moniker, the people here prefer ‘Saigon’ to ‘Ho Chi Minh City’ since ‘Saigon’ evokes greater emotion and connection to the city’s history. As an introduction, may I take the liberty of quoting researcher and Professor Nguyen Dinh Dau’s statement that if there were no Saigon, the innovative and integrated Vietnam we know today wouldn’t exist. ...
Saigon - Saigoneer
A Merry Memory of a Mid-2000s Middle-Class Christmas in Saigon. As my palm felt the glossy wrapping paper for my Secret Santa gift, I was transported to my early childhood Christmases — filled with warmth, wonder, and the bubbling discomfort of class insecurities....
Society - Saigoneer
Requiem for a Bàng Tree That Was Cut Down in Front of My Home. Curiosity drove me downstairs into the downpour. Out of the corner of my eye, I spotted the municipal workers — clad in orange-and-green uniforms, their clothes soaked — gathering around a crane.