One night in Saigon
Six weeks earlier... I boarded the Mekong Express bus together with my friends and many other passengers on 31 December 2015 toward Ho Chi Minh city. We were hoping that it would take 5-6 hours maximum because of the bridge crossing the mighty Mekong means we didnt have to wait for ferry crossing. Yet the trip delayed about 2h as we waited for ages at the immigration at Vietnamese side; this made the trips somewhat took almost 8H. We finally arrived HCM at around 4.45pm. Finally found the location and checked in at the hotel, it was around 5.15pm. I was actually very excited as we planned to spend the last evening of 2015 watching water puppet show. We checked with hotel staff but they came back and sadden face, "sorry all tickets sold out as its new year times and very many tourists bought tickets way in advance." Never mind, we can do something else for the evening. As it was almost dinner time, we decided to go for dinner. The favourite Pho shop came to mind and it ...