My Saigon - Elly Thuy Nguyen

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Résumé :
Experience real Saigon: My Saigon 2025 Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City) offers bustling streets, amazing walks, too-hip-for-you cafes, rocking music clubs, luxurious salons, explosively delicious restaurants, and indoor cat zoos. Saigon is Vietnam. It's young, practical, crowded, and a little bit brash. Most visitors to Saigon see the same boring attractions: boring restaurants, tourist-trap markets, and War propaganda. Saigon has so much more to experience than tourists see. My Saigon is the inside track: the most amazing experiences, the cultural backstories, the practical go-to tips, the best coffee, the best food (far beyond pho and banh mi), the best hangouts, the coolest stuff, and hipsters, hipsters everywhere. New for 2025: Map/navigation links and scannable QR codes for all places mentioned. Scan the QR code in the book when you're on the go and use your phone for navigation.Details about 90-day and multi-entry electronic visas to Vietnam (new as of August, 2023). Scannable QR codes and map links for all recommended places History your tour guides aren't allowed to mention. Good hotels for cheap, without hostels, bedbugs, and weird smells. Get mobile data up and running without being scammed. The best pho in Saigon: no, it's not the one in the backpacker district. Awesome, authentic, cheap restaurants where my friends and I eat -- and Tripadvisor has no clue about. Coffee. Did someone say coffee? 1930s coffee, street coffee, specialty coffee, all kinds of coffee: I'll tell you where. Hang out with Vietnamese people, munch on dried squid, listen to Viet Pop (if you dare). Make cool friends, date guys or girls, whatever flag you might fly. Bust out with Saigonese slang to make your new friends laugh. Watch out for Saigon's mafia: they run the streets, and they don't announce themselves. Don't unintentionally offend people by wearing a popular tourist souvenir t-shirt. You definitely shouldn't give money to beggars and street kids. Avoiding taxi scams in Saigon is so easy, but most tourists refuse to learn. My Saigon is a guide, a love confessional, an instruction manual, and an ode to the city....

Biographie:
Elly Thuy Nguyen is a Saigon born and raised English-language marketing writer. Elly not-so-secretly moonlights as the author of the My Saigon series of guides to Vietnamese travel and culture. When she's not writing or reading, she loves cafes, cats, hip-hop, and visiting unpopular travel destinations....

Sommaire:
Skip the Tourist Trail. My Saigon is Your Local Key to the City. Coming to Saigon (or Ho Chi Minh City)? That's awesome! But are you ready to see the real city, the one that most guidebooks miss? Those other books are great if you want to stick to the same old tourist traps, overpriced junk, and government propaganda. This isn't that kind of book. I'm Elly, and this is My Saigon - updated for 2025. I'm your Saigonese friend who's super excited to show you around. I'll tell you where actual locals go with their friends on a free day, the places with the good stuff that rarely make it into those other guides. We're talking about experiencing Saigon like someone who truly knows it, getting a way deeper understanding, and finding all sorts of cool things you probably wouldn't discover on your own. We'll ditch the tourists and their conical hats. I'll teach you navigating the city (map links and QR codes for every listing! ), understanding the latest visa rules, amazing food way beyond pho (though I'll tell you where the good pho is too!), staying safe, and even a bit of Saigonese street talk. It's all the stuff I'd tell my own friends or family if they were visiting. This 2025 edition has the same Elly quality, the same (or maybe even improved) Elly jokes, and lots of all the great new places, with none of the noise. Dive into this multi-layered, thrilling city and come out smelling only a bit like fish sauce. You'll love it, I promise....