Black & White photos...

Sometime it's nice to have black & white photos instead of colour... Do you see what i mean?

Boat by the pier

Cultural Show @ Hoi An, Vietnam

City @ India - Kolkata

House built on middle of Inle Lake, Myanmar

Which is your preference, colour or Black & White?

Coffee Place : Vinh Hung Heritage Hotel @ Hoi An, Vietnam

Vietnamese coffee has been known as one of the best coffee in the world. I happened to have a very traditional way of drinking Vietnamese Coffee in Vinh Hung Heritage Hotel, Hoi An, Vietnam when we were having breakfast.

Vietnamese Coffee

The coffee took 15 mins to drip from the upper deck to the cup. The fresh brew coffee smell so nice and guess what? I drank 2 cups...

Vinh Hung Heritage Hotel located in the central of Unesco Heritage Hoi An ancient city. The hotel serve delicious breakfast and strong fragrance Vietnamese fresh brewed Coffee... Yum Yum~

Two countries in 9 Days - Day 2 : Birthday + Chinese New Year Reunion Dinner

January 30th 2014 - My Birthday and CNY reunion dinner

Today is my Birthday, to celebrate my birthday, my sister has arranged a morning walk around the flower market and street art in Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC)... 

Boat bringing flowers from Mekong Delta

Boat full of flowers

At the art street, got the chance to see how Vietnamese wrote the Lunar New Years artistic painting and calligraphy. The Vietnamese also using the ink and brush like Chinese in China.

Writing the Horsey word

Next, we headed to the Temporary Florist in the middle of the city near the famous Ben Thanh Market. This is an annual event for city folks to buy flower and place in their home for the lunar new year.

Sun flower fields in HCMC

Dragon Fruits as decoration

there are meaning to all these flowers and fruits as the decoration... i don't know what it meant to the Vietnamese thought. Maybe i could find out from my Vietnamese colleagues. :p

Not sure you still remember the Lunar New Year reunion dinner was also my birthday dinner... My sister bought this cake and celebrated my birthday in the afternoon. This Tiramutsu cake was brought from a 68 years old bakery shop. It was super yummy~

My Birthday Cake

My Lunar New years dinner always have it indoors, this year the Lunar New Year was a bit different as we were having Alfresco dinner. Yup,  we were having our dinner at 28 floors with the spectacular sunset...

View from the sun deck

TZ relax on portable hammock

We were having steamboat (hot pot) for reunion dinner. All the stuff has been prepared by sister and mom, my duty was setting up the place and transported those food from the kitchen to the sun deck.

Raw material for Hotpot

Steamboat (Hotpot)

i went back to work on my assignment after the clean up. Anyway, thanks to my sister on arranging my birthday and the reunion dinner... i have a nice birthday and reunion dinner with my family in Vietnam :)

Two countries in 9 Days - Day 1 : Touch down @ Ho Chi Minh City

Jan 29th 2014 - Left city of pothole and heading to HCMC, Vietnam. The journey took me 1 hours 10 mins. Rushing through the days, pick up a taxi and headed to KLIA. Broad the Malaysia Airline, the true Malaysian Hospitality... Anyway, that would be another story eh~

Touched down at 6pm, cleared the custom and met my bro-in-law after 30 mins. Still faster than KLIA in term of baggage handling.

Left the baggage at my sister place and headed to dinner nearby. Dinner @ Papa's Vietnam, an Italian Restaurant.

Italian Food - Papa's Vietnam

Authentic Italian food from the Italian chef... Yummy~
After the meal, we proceed with to the New Year's decoration near Crescent Mall District 7. The florist decoration was so nice...

Lunar New Year flower and light decoration

  

So many different species of flower including the paddy fields... So it's an eye opener for me to see how pretty is the man made garden on the road. (they closed the road and put up the garden). more;

Back to my sister place after the visit... Day 1 end. ~

TZ Birthday Dinner = CNY reunion dinner

Hey what a coincident this year... my birthday dinner is the CNY reunion dinner this year. So, what's for my birthday dinner and CNY reunion dinner. I think my mom has planned together with my sister to have Steamboat for dinner. :p

I'm celebrating my Birthday and I'm in Vietnam now, anyway it's just a normal day which i was born decades ago. Not gonna tell you how old am i  ;-)

Stay tune eh~ Will post on how i celebrated my birthday and CNY reunion dinner...