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My name is Huy. No surname. If you need one, make one up yourself. Have it whatever you like – Smith, Nguyen – whatever you folks fancy. My clients call me “Punch and Knead.” So it’s Huy Punch and Knead for them. I figure it’s as good a name as any. A couple of years ago, can’t remember how long, a … Read more
Taking fish and chips to the streets Meet JJ’s Fish and Chips (38B Tran Hung Dao, D1), the self-proclaimed first-ever authentic fish and chips streetside food cart in HCMC. JJ is short for Jamie, the Englishman who missed his home country’s national dish way too much to let a lack of business experience stop him from making it the star of his … Read more
Find out how Linh Rateau’s journey from France to Vietnam resulted in the creation of one of the city’s most popular dance centers Looking at the current Dancenter in District 2 – the villa, the spacious dance studios, the well-lit rooms and clean white walls, the star-studded list of instructors and the whopping 600 students on its roll call – … Read more
…and all the (expat and Vietnamese) men and women are merely players Saigon Players, the oldest and most loved English speaking theater group in Saigon, began 10 years ago with a couple of beers, a handful of enthusiastically tipsy expat friends and a dollop of sheer boredom. At some point, love and passion for theatrical arts were also involved. It’s hard to … Read more
A crazy horse lady builds the city’s first equestrian center For a self-proclaimed equestrian center and farm, Bach Ma is as weird as it gets. One, it doesn’t accept passing guests. Two, it has been around for the last six years, but is only known to about a couple dozen people plus 200 Facebookers who may or may not count. … Read more
Call me Mimi, Mimi as in Mimi Doraemi, the robotic cat in the Japanese anime series. I was born a man, but now I am a woman by choice. My work as a transgender funeral performer is… to be honest, even to this day I’m not quite sure whether it was more by chance or by sheer necessity. Nevertheless, this … Read more
A Brazilian form of Japanese Jiu-Jitsu comes to HCMC SAIGON LUTA LIVRE sits in the last place anyone would expect to find a foreignowned martial art studio, in a four-by-12 apartment on the third floor of a decades-old Vietnamese building. The path that leads to it is a tiny alleyway branching off Tran Quang Dieu Street, literally minutes away from the infamous … Read more
With big names like Starbucks, Burger King and McDonald’s dominating local headlines, Oi decided it was time to shine the spotlight on homegrown franchises that you may not have heard about, but should Startup Coffee “We obviously can’t take Starbucks head on, so guerilla warfare is the way to go,” Mai Truong Giang, Founder and … Read more
The rise and fall of arguably the city’s most unique cafe Cafe Boeing (Café May Bay or Airplane Cafe) on 117 Hong Ha Street closed down permanently three months ago when its lease expired. In a strange turn of events, the reason for its closure was also what made the café so popular. In the … Read more
THE MYTH: Do motorbike tire repair places put nails out on the road to get more customers? The short and simple answer is yes, they do. Tire repair shops along various streets have gained a reputation for their willingness to do just about anything to get more customers. Local Vietnamese have taken to calling them … Read more
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