Saigon Day 3: Markets

Today was a later start and we wandered up to see if the ticketing office was open (it wasn't, it should be open tomorrow according to the security guard). We then wandered and had a look around to find what's called 'DVD street' lots of pirated movies, some new release available as well as box sets on the cheap. It was fairly quite as Tet winds down, the flower street has been dismantled and cars can now drive through. It's a bit sad not seeing the area decorated but thankfully with Tet winding down more shops are opening for business.

We had lunch at ciao cafe again, they do decent Pho bo but its not as good as the dish I had in HaNoi. But the strawberry smoothie was decent. Afterwards I headed back for a nap, it was hot and I felt a bit off. Nicola did some more exploring and found a book store, which I might look into. 

When she came back eventually we decided to head out to Nha Hang Ngon, about 15min walk away. It's a nice restaurant that has specialty dishes from all over the country. It was quite busy when we got there but we only had to wait 5-10min to get a seat but the food was delicious, I had the steamed rice and chicken wings in garlic and nicola had Pho. We shared deserts (they come in small bowls) of black sticky rice and glutenous rice cakes in ginger syrup with coconut milk. The food was lovely and filling, the staff were helpful with suggestions. Granted we waited for 5-10min but it was essentially the end of Tet so it can excused.