More stuff for the travel chronicals

[JackR]

So I leave day after Thanksgiving for another 3 week business trip. Hong Kong, Taipei, Shanghai, Chongqing, Ho Chi Minh City.
I needed a visa for Vietnam. Got that a couple weeks ago. My contact there sends me this text today
Third world travel. Got to know who to pay

Joe & Jack,
Welcome back to Vietnam.

1. For travel Visa, please make sure print it out.
2. Please wash out & bring 2 visa photos of each person. If you don’t do this, it will cost 30 minutes at least at custom to take photos.
3. Please go to “Landing Visa” “Visa application individuals” counter to change Visa(attachments), no need to fill in any documents.
Just hand in travel Visa & 2 photos, with 2 or 5 US$ tip for each person, give to them.
This is east-south Asia, if no tip, 2-3 hours waiting, they don’t care;
2 dollars tip for each person, 20 minutes waiting.
5 dollars tip for each person, 10 minutes waiting.

Then the Marriott hotel is 2,600,000 per night. Dong that is. About $250.00 US.

 

[5.7 hemi]

That’s a lotta dong!

 

[alsant]

Hear they have good Dog there

 

[JackR]

Hear they have good Dog there

I learned a long time ago to try it but never ask what it is before I do. And even after i finish eating I don’t ask if even i liked it.

 

[MarPar]

 

[1 Wild R/T]

 

[Richard Cranium]

That’s a lotta dong!

 

[68BabyBlue]

My locality has a large number of Asian restaurants. The two busiest feature authentic North China cuisine, in addition to standard Americanized dishes. I'm addicted to the real deal, probably the result of my Asian heritage, and I don't care what's in it. The cooking process renders the protein into a generic vessel for the spiced oil and other ingredients. I've never had any GI issues from eating at the number one establishment. On the other hand, I ate at the competition a few times with not so good results, and now refuse to patronize it.

When I started my trucking career, folklore said that truckers knew all the good places to eat. In the days before the interstate system was completed, there was some truth to that, but a lot of the myth arouse from the basic need for a trucker to stop at a place with a big enough parking lot. On the other hand, a variation of this myth holds water with the two Chinese restaurants here. At the winner, it's hard to get parking, with Lambos, Mercedes, and BMWs driven by Asian Penn State students jamming the lot full. The other joint has plenty of parking, and no high end vehicles.

The final straw for me at the lesser place was when they got busted by the health inspector for a road killed deer carcass in their dumpster. I love venison, but I want to be higher up on the chain of custody.