#PackandRoll

rollin' around the globe

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Bánh mì Ba Lắc, Nguyen Hue avenue, district 1

Ba Lắc vietnamese banh mi, a humble and famous sandwiches cart on Nguyen Hue avenue. Affordable price and various choices for everyone. The creamy and yellow-ish homemade butter and delicious pork paste are the most special ingredients of banh mi Ba Lắc.

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Favorite take away treat for both locals and tourists at Saigon city central <3

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Phông chữ Sài Gòn cũ

sáng lang thang chơi góc Hàm Nghi - Tôn Thất Đạm. bất giác dòm lên toà nhà cao cao bên chợ cũ thấy dòng chữ ‘Restaurant Động Phát’ - chậc, font gì đẹp dữ thầng, font Sài Gòn cũ rồi, không biết cũ chừng nào, nhưng chắc chắn là cũ, vì nó đẹp. cao hứng, làm một vòng khu Calmette - Nguyễn Thái Bình - Lê Thị Hồng Gấm - Phó Đức Chính...mắt cứ hếch lên nóc nhà, cửa tiệm. và đây là kết quả sau khoảng 20-30 phút quần thảo ‘ăn hàng’ ở khu này.

Tết rảnh chắc đi lần nữa, qua khu bến Chương Dương - Hàm Tử, rồi vòng xuống khu quận 5, chắc còn nhiều bảng hiệu, pa-nô, bích trương quảng cáo cũ. ờ, nếu rảnh =__=.

àh, có chế nào biết app nào làm font dễ xài không? PM tớ nha, xin quả tạ :3

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by Atelier 8000 

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shaddap, take my money and book me tickets...urg, but where the heck is this place 😂

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Saigon | walls with tattoos.

Wanna see cool brick-dudes with tattoos? You definitely should come to this most interesting public place in Saigon, right in the heart of the city - 3A Ton Duc Thang street, district 1, near the Ba Son quay.

You will find some real cool mid-size murals around Mai’s gallery. Those murals are created by the collaboration between local and international artists, you can find their signatures on each piece of art.

And inside 2-storey, colorful building is an open space for artists come and sell their hand-made stuffs or their products to the tourists, hipsters or somebody who love art and unique home decor stuffs.

P.S: Saigon’s weather is always hot, bring tissue, shades and a big bottle of water would help.

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Singapore | ArtScience Museum \ Double exhibitions.

Today is a great day for my eyes but not for my legs. After visited Buddha Tooth Relic Temple/Museum this morning, I spent 3 more hours in the afternoon at ArtScience Museum with two stunning exhibitions! One is Da Vinci: Shaping the future - the very first time in South East Asia and the other is Prudential Singapore Eye which is about Singapore’s contemporary art.

Note: Buy a combo ticket, you will save 16$, equal 4 meals at food courts excluding beverages.

Leonardo Da Vinci is such an awesome, genius and the most hard-working painter, sculptor, architect, musician, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist, and writer ever. I think, it’s so good for him because TV, Internet, Facebook, tumblr and many other distracting things haven’t invented yet (oh man..). I loved the 7 minutes projection mapping film about how the famous Last Supper mural masterpiece has been made. It’s outrageous! And guess what, he is the one who invented the first car engine ever. Google it.

Prudential Singapore Eye, I felt lucky to attend this exhibition, I can see what local artists and other South East Asia artists are doing. Wow, and it’s so good. I can see many point-of-view, about art, life, thru their ideas, thru their works.

Hungry? Don’t grab a Sneaker or else. Try to walk to Lau Pa Sat food court, just about 15 mins walking, try Chili Crab or whatever you want.

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Singapore | Buddha Tooth Relic Temple\Museum.

Too tired of shopping, urg...I mean window shopping or depressed shopping, whatever. Pay a visit to this awesome, large-sized temple, right next to the Chinatown market. You will be felt like you just step into another universe. The temple is a great combination of thousand golden statues, colourful furnitures (mostly in glossy red) and prayers under a holy atmosphere.

Find the stairs of use lift to reach upper levels, you will find interesting buddism museum upstair, and don't forget to visit the garden on rooftop.

P.S: Pay attention to your cloths if you plan to visit the temple, tees are fine, skirts, shorts or sleeveless tops/shirts will not be allowed to get in tho.

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Singapore | Murals murals on the walls.

Found some interesting murals on old houses at Chinatown. Some look artsy, some look vintage, some real funny. My favorite one is the mural with super vintage Chiniese Royal maids or princesses or something, they're holding iconic  modern stuffs like cellphone, macbook, Chanel bag...a real fun mixture!

Still hungry to see more stuff like this :|.

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Singapore | Littlered with Books.

Yes, booksss! It's time to give my lazy eyes a workout. Let's have a walk to Littlered with Books - a small, local, independent, 2-storey bookstore at 20 Duxton Road. This cute, cozy bookstore have a lots of personalities. Take a closer look to the shelves, the carpets, decorative stuffs, you will find that the owners/staffs here were put their heart into any single detail.

The books' price is not as cheap as Kinokuniyas in Bangkok but, I don't mind it. Because when spending money on books (or toys and many other boy's things), I often very generous. Sometimes, that generosity brings me troubles (woot!)

I found a comic book of a Singaporean writer-cartoonist tittled 'Scenegapore' quite funny tho. Another one is Weiwei-ism, Ai Wei Wei is my favorite artist and a 'Pocket daring book for Girls', well...for my daughter, hm...may be I will read it first tho ;'>.

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Singapore | Red dot design museum.

From my hotel to Red dot design museum is not so far, just 15 mins walk. And by the way, Red dot design museum is very easy to find cause it's located inside a big, red, old building on Maxwell road. If you are a fan of architectures, urban planning...(I'm definitely not at all) you can visit Singapore City Museum in Ura Centre, opposite Red dot museum.

Pay 8$ for an adult ticket and you can enjoy your trip. This is such an interesting experience to me, I can see in close-up, touch, feel the Red dot winning-award products. There have a lots of cool, savvy, innovative stuffs from famous design firms and talented creators around the World.

That was awesome!

The stuffs in Red dot museum shop are very cool, smart, but real expensive either. The bluetooth speaker named Mipow BOOMAX was surprised with its very good sound quality!

P.S: If my wife was there, she would love the 4-speed automatic cradle from a German design firm ;D.

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Singapore | Chinatown market.

It's a crowded street with full of tourists, hawkers, crier, souvenir shops and sometimes pocket pickers (pay attention to your wallets and purses). You can find a lots of cheap things here, from 1-2$ tees, tag luggages to expensive high-detailed inner-paints bottles or hand-crafted chopsticks set.

Try to write your name in Chinese traditional zodiac graphics, looks cool, not so cheap but I think it's worth tho. Also try the flavoured jelly and spice-dried porks.

About eating. I think one meal is enough, except for grill meals, the portion quite big, I almost throw up when accidental ordered two big disc of noodles (but taste good!).

P.S: buy a no sugar tea bottle at 7eleven to save your weight and your stomach!

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Singapore | First day.

This is my hotel - Naumi Liora. It's actually an old building block painted in orange and white, lies in the heart of Chinatown, Singapore city.

My first impression when I stepped in to its lobby was stunning, everything is bright, clean and looks hip. The kung-fu sculpture at the lobby caught my attention the most, Ha! such a very cool idea for a sculpture and much in-line with Chinatown atmosphere, right?

And one more thing that made me impressed as well was when I opened my room on second-floor, I must say, Wow, it's pretty small, but I like it, it's too small, yes, but super cozy. I really love the bed next to the window look out to the street with those layered Roman curtains.

The staffs are quite nice, and they're not asking too much things tho.

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Bangkok, Thailand | toy hunt

Last two week, I've got a longest business trip to Bangkok ever - 12 days long. Well, instead of wasting time laid back at Marriott Sukhumvit Bangkok, me and my friends decided to go shopping (well, not so wow decision - I know).

Bangkok is a awesome city for shopping. First, everything in BKK always cheaper than other countries in the Asia. Second, the currency rate is pretty low compare to Vietnamdong or US dollar. And last, shopping malls are everywhere! How on Earth you can escape from shopping?!

I did a recon in some big shopping malls like Siam Paragon, Terminal 21, Mega Bangna and I realised there have some toys pretty cheap while others very overpriced.

The cheap toys are kit models made by F-toys, Aoshima and some minature figures and souvenirs.

While other popular toys like Gundam, Tomica, Lego, Megabloks are pretty overpriced compare to Vietnam martket. But anyway, still much cheaper if compare to Singapore tho.