As the rich get richer...
When observing an ultra-luxury car clogging up a cramped market street, it's important to think about what that automobile represents. Check it out below (click image to flip for text):
Paul Christiansen in Postcards
Humans adapted to fields, birds to branches... and yet, in Saigon...
Paul Christiansen in Postcards
When dark clouds rumble in a frequency akin to that of an empty stomach, the city transforms into a bowl of soup.
Paul Christiansen in Postcards
Who hasn't skilled moods that shift quick as clouds dashing throughout Saigon's skyline?
Paul Christiansen in Postcards
Before bombs and boobie traps, guerilla offenses and ambushes, Vietnam had another means of driving invaders out.
Paul Christiansen in Postcards
Navigating traffic with absurdly overburdened motorbikes comes as second nature to Saigoneers.
Paul Christiansen in Postcards
While the rainy season's flooded streets, soaked satchels and delayed appointments can make one curse its arrival, sometimes when the torrent hits the neon storefronts just so, it becomes a source of ...
Saigoneer in Eat & Drink
Not long ago, one could count the number of Spanish eateries in Saigon on a few fingers.
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What exactly is fusion food?
Saigoneer in Eat & Drink
There is no such thing as too much durian.
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When one of the city's longest-running and best-loved clubs welcomes a bona fide electronic music icon, it's bound to result in a night of ecstatic, hands in the air dancing.
Saigoneer in Hotels
With sunlight shimmering on skyscrapers that stretch proudly above the horizon across from untrammeled patches of green space, Saigon appears most attractive when viewed from the river.
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I arrived shortly before sunset, draped in my best floor-length party vest, and free of expectations on the second and final Saturday of Vietnam’s largest, globally-acclaimed music and art festival, E...
