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Was this place located ON Nguyen Phi Khanh street itself, or was it in a small side street off of it. There's one karaoke I went to once that is in that last side street on the left before you reach the main intersection where Lotteria is at Tran Quang Khai. I went to another one that was down on the main NPK street closer to Vo Thi Sau, but I think that one no longer exists now. I don't search for these places, so I don't remember if the main street still has some. I did ride past the one on the side street and it was still there, as of November last time I was round there. I just looked at Google Maps and the side street is called Huyen Quang. If you go into that street then there is just one karaoke / bia om there, one can not miss it.

it seems not knowing the language has certain benefits, while knowing it has drawbacks: no need to waste time singing and chatting, just go straight to the sucking and kissing. Poor you. :D

And typically the motorbikes are facing with their backs (thus license plates) to the wall, so that no one can identify which bike it is, that's for privacy. But they don't always do that.

Did you test this one out? I haven't been to these NPK karaokes in years, but once I went completely solo, to the one in the main street. I was ushered in and taken to a room, a lineup brought in for me to select from. No problem. I also checked out the one in the side street when I was by myself, and they seemed eager for me to come right in, just me. Later I did go back with a friend, but they did not seem to have any problem with me being their customer if I was alone. It is strange to go to these places by oneself, and not cost-effective at all, but why wouldn't they want you to be their customer if you are going solo?

What is NDC? I assume it's an abbreviation for a street name. Maybe it's one that is super obvious but I can't think of which street this would be at the moment.

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I don't know which place he is talking about exactly, but my previous post describes how to find at least ONE of thees places near NPK street. There are quite a few of these bia oms (as locals call them) on Tran Quang Khai street (that is a street which intersects with NPK). If you travel the length of that TQK street you will spot them if you look for the descriptions he and I mentioned. Motorbikes parked inside with maybe just a desk in the back somewhere, usually with pink or some colored light. The action is located upstairs. There seem to be some also on Vo Thi Sau near NPK street. An Duong vuong in district 5 has lots of them, also side streets off of it such as Le Hong Phong, and Nguyen Trai near there has some. Also a few together on Nguyen Bieu between Nguyen Trai and Tran Hung Dao. And not to forget Tran Hung Dao itself, starting at Nguyen Van Cuu street and beyond in D5. Fortune at 700 THD is a famous one (and high end). I am not a bia om guy, so this is just what I have noticed while driving around. Some here actually go to these places and know the scene far better than me.

I realize people feel nervous about it, but I think if you rent a bike in the backpacker district for a cheap per day price, that's the best way to go explore. So much more flexibility than taxi or walking. The place renting those out seem to only require that you have 2 arms, 2 legs and a head. The only paper they want is money.

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Bro, I in hcm now. Going back sg on Tuesday. U at hcm too?

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Still seeing some fellow sg Bro around in hcmc.
I'm flying back Tuesday too.
Hope all the Bros have fun!
Girls everywhere r pushing for st and lt.
Time for tet

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I guess is Nguyen Dinh Chieu.

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1.2 million dong to pay and drink 2 bottles of Tiger with a girl is a rip off , very expensive.
For that you could have a bottle of nice vintage red Merlot wine with a girl , then In a nice ambience at Hyatt Saigion Then it's reasonable not expensive.

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Not an expert in bia om anyway, a word of advice do not select the first group of girls the mommy brought in. If the girls are not to your liking just tell the mommy to bring in more girls. Noted that the hot (pretty) girls are the last to be brought out. Probably reserved for their regular customers, we went in a big group. This bia om girls don't wear bra in their line of work, so I let my hands do the talking.
Those bia om further out of HCM is so much more wilder, you will be surprised. One thing better, the girls don't wear panties, so you can fingered them if you like. It is cheaper and also the girls have no qualms when it comes to stripping naked. you don't have to strip for them, they will do it themselves.
Tks to bro's whoever you are for upping my points. I have a feeling I'm a target man for their practice.

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I am here with family for vacation and business. Not really interested in chionging. Anyway I saw a lot of sg men at q1 during Christmas with hot syt. Bros in hcm enjoy.

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Well to be honest, I actually paid for 4 bottles, me and the girl were sharing them. And about half of that total bill was tips because I had 2 waiters assigned plus the girl. Regardless, yes, very expensive.

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Went to HCM over the xmas weekend… I like to explore the various districts on a bike, and hardly entered D1 as I find it too touristy.
Here’s my experiences. Thanks to Bro W for providing some leads.

Day 1
Reached my usual hotel at 6+. Borrowed a bike and asked the hotel staff for recommendations for countdown party. I know there’s a Vuvuzela nearby but it aint fun. The staff recommended Guru Bar, said it was “more fun” than Vuvuzela. Pui. Not much differences. Basically both are restaurant pubs where there are many dining tables for you to have your food. Guru bar has a live violin band, magic shows and dancers on stage. That’s their idea of clubbing. I stayed or an hour and decided to beep for FLs. Sent at least 10 smses but none replied. Gave up and went to the Monica Massage next door for a rub. Ticket 200k, and has a Jacuzzi pool, sauna, steam boat and tv room. The massage, as with usual Vn massage, was strong and good. The lady was having fun tickling my ass and sibei BTH. Make my didi super hard and asked for 700k for HJ. No way, I countered 300k, a bit over but considering the sensual massage she gave me, I think she deserved it. She tried to bargain but I showed my reluctance. I was prepared to walk away. In the end, she settled for the 300k. allowed me to play with her tits with her clothes on. Released my load and game over. Later I dropped over to the tv room to have a rest. Man, the reclining bed was so comfortable that I slept for an hour inside, missing the countdown. On my way back to hotel, stopped nearby to have com tam aka bbq pork. Not as nice as the one I had in my previous trip. I missed that stall’s bbq but didn’t bother to note the address that time. Regrets..

Day 2
Decided to beep for a FL at Phu Nhuan district. Hotel cost me 100k for the superior room, saying all cheaper rooms full. Lousy hotel. Room very big, but air con put so far away. Whole room so warm. Beep the girl my room number. No response and I called her. Couldnt talk much with my limited tv. Eventually she arrived at the 40 mins mark. Got down to business.. this girl, 23yo, but attitude very poor. No bj, no doggie, cannot even turn over body. In short, a super dead fish. Killed all my mood with the Nos, Nos. Some more need to pay another 50k for the room extension. Left without release.
Since PXL (Phan Xich Long) is just around the corner, decided to explore that street. It was said that near Vy Huy Tan there are brothels, but I couldn’t find it. But quite a few, roughly 3-5 pretty girls cafes in that area. Rode up and down and settle down on one, cause the girls looked younger, sexier and saw their ZG . Sat down and ordered an ice coffee, and for 15 minutes, no girls sit down with me. I was eyeing a young girl in black hoping she will keep me company. Later found out she’s only 19yo. Eventually a 25yo girl sit with me and she couldn’t speak any English. Used google translate to chat with her and touch touch a bit. Nothing much, gave her 20k tips and left after 45 mins.
Decided to explore Truong Son, where there are quite a number of DJ café. But stopped for a meal of fried rice at the nearby seafood restaurant. The 19yo waitress looked cute, petite and could speak simple English. But another 23yo ugly waitress keep hovering near me, refusing to go serve other customers. Other waitresses saw her around and were reluctance to come over. Ugly waitress keep wanting to talk to me and asked for my fb. Anyway, after an hour of flirting with the girls, my friends arrived and I left with them. No follow up with the waitresses after that.

Day 3
Bought 2 banh mi, wanna give 1 to the hotel girl. But the boss refused to let her accept. No choice, eat both myself and feel very much whole day..haha.
Decided to beep for FL again. Anyhow choose and proceed to a hotel in Tan Binh. The girl arrived 15 mins later. No smile on her face, no friss. Just gave a touch-and-go bj, and straight away do the deed. Told me she’s 19yo, but I guessed she’s 23. Anyway, shot the load and she left soon. Costed 500k.
Decided to continue my exploration at Truong Son. Entered one of the 2 bigger DJ café and had an ice coffee that cost 45k. nothing much.. just a slightly revealing DJ spinning the songs and customers just sit and watch her. Some customers even bring their own led lights and do home work there! Stayed for 20 mins and left.
Decided to explore 173 Su Van Hanh. Damn this place was so hard to find. I rode the streets up and down for 2 hours. Even google map showed that 173 is “just beside” 585. Only much later I realized that this street is actually broken into 3 or 4 parts, and 173 is far far at the 1st part while 500+ is at the last part! I went into 173 and ordered an ice coffee, hoping a girl will sit with me. Damn. Throughout the entire session, nobody sit with me. Even the DJ also came much later, about 7.20pm. one thing good about this place is the internet is super fast.. about 50 mbps. I watched a drama episode there.
009 is quite empty compared to 173. Only less than 5 customers, and most of the girls are outside sitting. That area has a lot of food stalls btw..
On ya, while circling at the 500+ section, I spotted some saloon with sexy girls in tight fittings. 2 are just side by side and I picked one of them. The girl brought me inside and gave me a hair wash, and sliced cold cucumbers and put on my face. I thought like the other legitimate hot tocs, this one is also nothing interesting. But wait. After the hair wash and facial, the girl brought me upstairs for “massage”. Gave me a short but strong massage, and proposed “massage baby” for 200k. tried my luck and told her to pull down her top and immediately she pulled down, revealing 2 sweet C cuppers. While she massage my baby, I massaged her knockers and suckle them. Can even stick my finger into her pussy. She tried hard for 20 mins to make me shoot, but I just couldn’t. Gave up but still satisfied. She told me she is 19yo.
There are a few of these sexy saloons in that area. I saw another one at the street behind.
Was quite late already, about 9.30pm. haven’t go to Chinatown to buy my stuff. All the shops closed already. Decided to try my luck at the sui cao street. They served very good sui cao aka shui jiao noodles, which I had explored in my last few trips. I’m not a fan of shui jiao, but this one is really good. The soup is very sweet. The street name is call Ha Ton Quyen. My fave is no. 183. But decided to try out 193 Tien Tien. Still taste good, but the soup is just 80% of no. 183. There was a funeral right next door, and the customers have no problem with the wake and chanting. It was so near that just the next table is the deceased family’s table. Interestingly, the songs they sang are hong kong birthday songs and 1970s kung fu drama tunes. I stood there for 30mins to make sense out of it.
That’s all for me. Early next day, flew back to Sg. The babies on the flight are terrible. Crying non stop.

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Nice FR Bro Singlun....The 500+ is at Truong Son or Su Van Hanh ? Any hotels in that area so that Massage, DJ Cafe and Hotel are all within walking distance and no need to take cabs. Did you explore all these places using Google maps or traditional maps ?

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The address you mentioned is actually a Massage and not Bia Om....See this link :
http://massage.odau.com/massage/mass...ung-dao-quan-5

Also renting a bike for flexibility sounds like a good idea, but how do you know their parking rules, where to park, how much parking coupon to put etc and what if you come back after your bia om session only to find your bike missing ? Why take these risks & end up paying more?:confused:

The 500+ is at Su Van Hanh. Hotels with massage are aplenty. But DJ Cafes are at the 100+ section. The sections in between, i think the 200 - 400, i didnt explore. Just simply ride past.

I used Waze to navigate around. Google map as a back up only. But these maps only bring you to the named streets, not quite to the numbers itself.

The parking rules are not difficult to work out. Wherever you go, you can simply park at their doors. Bigger businesses like hotels, restaurants and cafes have their own parking security. For big buildings or McDonald in D1, where you ride into the car Park,they will collect 5k dongs from you. When you have uncle ho, anything is easy.
Of course, no men's land like parks and gardens have no security. That's where you need to be careful.
Oh ya, riding against the traffic is common there. I do it all the time.

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Fortune has both massage and karaoke. McLovin@@ did a review of it fairly recently: https://www.sammyboyforum.co.nz/show...ostcount=10787

Almost any business you visit has parking, and if it is the kind of business that you must spend time inside where you can't see your bike, it probably will have someone there to watch the bikes, and most times they give you a ticket to keep so you present that when you come back to retrieve your bike again. Sometimes have to pay, sometimes not. As you will notice, the driving style here is almost anything goes. Make turns using petrol stations as part of the road. No problem. Drive on sidewalks, no problem. Wrong way, ok. Through red light even. Actually I try not to do any of these things, but ok I am definitely guilty of having at least sometimes done each one.

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You didn't visit the cafes on Vinh Vien just round the corner from the Su Van Hanh ones you wen to? Mi Fa in particular is (for my money) the best in that area, particulary from about 3pm to 6pm. The girls change shifts there at 4pm so if you arrive at about 3pm and stay 2 hrs, you can get to see all the girls that work there. To me, 009 is not really worth a visit. Even 173 is not a favorite.

Waze is a cool app. Google just copied its style and added it into the Google Maps app as a beta feature.

Oh, i didnt realised that the Vinh vien is nearby. I spent too long searching for 173 Su Van Hanh. In between still go Mr Potato to have a bite. Now that i know where is it and got it down in my waze, i will visit it the next time.

Forgot to add that in my last trip, in D5, I passed by an unit with red lights inside. This time, I went back to explore. When I stepped in, all the women stared at me. Yes, all women at least 30yo. It has a restaurant settings.. with square dining tables and a small stage. I'm the only guy there. Soon, I realised that it is a LSB. Decided to order a can of coke to observe. The lady was trying to sell me 10 cokes! Ha ha.. they left me alone after they realised that I'm not going to call a hen, or old chick. After a while, an old man walk in and a hen sat with him. Nothing much happened inside. Not even touchy stuff. The can of coke cost me 30k and I left.

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Yeah if you go up SVH and 009 is on the right followed by 173 on the left, continue to the traffic light and there make the right onto Vinh Vien, there's actually 3 cafes on that one block, with one more just cross the street. on the next one parallel to SVH (always forget the name of that street) which is also decent. But the first one Mifa is probably best of this group around here.

My guess is that it's a Hat Voi Nhau. Was anyone singing? Maybe I'm wrong and some seniors here are shaking their heads. Not sure what you mean by LSB. (I'm not from Singapore) If it's what I think it is, the one I was in (Phu Nhuan) was also very tame, like you saw. But girls much younger than what you describe, a couple cute ones and a few not cute. There used to be many of these places round the city, but have mostly disappeared. Anyone curious can go have a look -- the Nguyen Tri Phuong bridge that goes from D5 to D8, if you take the narrow side road next to the bridge heading toward the canal, there are 2 of these places about halfway down there on right side of the bridge. I've never been to these but have always been mildly curious about them, just never enough to go in and look.

This reminds me of years ago, when I used to go to bars and clubs with buddies, once in one bar in Phu Nhuan near the old Paradise, there was one small slim and pretty girl there who would sometimes go up on a tiny stage they had and dance wildly and very sexily, almost in the strip club style but with lots of energy and fast to the beat of the music. I never really noticed how sexy her body was (nice legs and ass, slim shape) until I saw her dancing. But wow, what a turn-on to see a girl dance so sexily and enthusiastically, you could see she was enjoying the dancing so much, her mind in another realm as she danced. (part of that actually was caused by the girl drinking too much there in the bar, that was standard in those places -- often you would see girls collapse unconscious and be dragged off by staff to a backroom or upstairs) Seeing a girl dance like that just gets me very excited. I managed to get her a drink and talk to her at my table. It went very well. Some days later I returned, and was told she quit. UGH! Stupidly I did not get her phone number. I asked around to the different girls and finally got a description of where she moved on to work. I went out and couldn't find the place. I came back days later and asked for better description. To cut a long story short, I eventually found the place and went in, and it was a hat voi nhau, a very very different kind of place. Customers sat at tables, some with hostess girls, and took turns going to the front of the room and singing some song to the entire 'audience.' During the song, some girls or customers would approach the singer and give them a rose, with the roses costing 10,000 or so to buy. Very strange setup. I sat with my girl, visited the place maybe twice. She of course persuaded me to get up and sing, something I would never ever never ever do in my own country, and so I did it. And I will never forget, as I did it, this girl suddenly became absorbed in her phone, even going outside to take a phone call while I was standing up there singing to a room full of strangers. (not full really, more like scattered) That was as big a turn-off as watching her dance was a turn-on. So I left the place soon after that, no bad scene or anything, just "ok I have to go now" but never went back or called her again.

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yes yes..from what you described, it is a Hat Voi Nhau... there are flowers on the tables..reminds me of our local hang flowers scene. The old man went up to sing a tune, then followed by the woman. I left soon cos the woman sings terribly...

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just came back on a few days trips from KL-SGN-SIN..

went to a local ktv (don't know where still) whereby you need to pay for the singing part (125k / hour), if not it will be just the girls + beers...atmosphere is so eerie without any music, hence just pay for it :cool:

anyway was still shocked at how the custom officers openly say "you got coffee money give me?" It happens to most counters i see, also to the guy infront of me, i wanted to shift lane, but too late...gave $4 sin dollars kena stare at him...knn...so i say "you want? if not give me back", he lan lan release my passport to me :o

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Any bro going tom To Hcm? Able to join ? Been quite sometime after I join some bro one year back .. Do watapps or wechat me if any program available. Staying in D1,

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Almost all ktv have the per hour ktv charge.
U can don't want if u have enough bros and chatting joking drinking loud enough.

Lol...interesting at customs..but u don't need to give. In the end they will give up. Because it's near tet...everyone overdrive for money.
They don't ask from me...and I been flying up and down once every 2 weeks recently.
Must be your handsome face..been a while since we chiong together in sing.

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But true e custom officer a bit Guai lan... From my own experience there not long ago can ask me for my flight ticket, return flight and stuff and ask for visa! Simi lan I sg passport still need what visa :mad: trying to be funny with me I think..

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As a rule of thumb. I always keep my flight ticket stub in the passport when passing immigration .
Then they got nothing much to ask.
They can't do anything much...just want money as tet is coming

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Whether Tet is coming or not, it can happen anywhere from immigration, taxi drivers, waitresses etc People with dishonest mind will always wanting to earn a quick buck.
Taxi drivers will tell you they don't have small change to return back to you for your fare. They will show you their pocket are all 100k notes. Waitress will "ti siow" after you have paid for your bill expecting some change to return back. They will come up with various ways to cheat you of your money. Once a vietnamese gets angry, they can be very fierce. It's just not worth it to get into a war words with them. Just pay them with the correct change so that they don't have a chance to short change you.

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Today is New Years Eve..please be prepared to be in a big crowded jam if you are going to D1...even if you stay in D1 also try not to go outside of D1...otherwise you have to walk back...and sometimes can be very far...dun expect taxi or motorbike to go far....if you do not have a booking tables then you can forget it because most entertainment places such as disco, clubs, pub, lounges are packed...:)

Wishing all Happy New Year 2016...:)

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Hi bros!

Little bro me is going to HCMC next week with a friend for some chionging action(4days 3nights.).Kindly advise how much to change also. 1st visit to HCMC, after reading alot of threads still rather clueless. Quite afew of bad experiences too. Any kind bros can teach abit or 2 on HCMC, where to chiong and how to chiong lol. Want it to be a fruitful trip ! Thanks alot in advance! :D

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So I hope nobody lost valuables during last night countdown...pick pockets out in full force...:)

1.never change dongs in Singapore. For small amount, change at hcm airport will do. In hcm, any gold stalls or shops can change currency. Even those stalls in wet markets.
2. 4 days 3 nights of chionging, $500 sgd should be enough. Of course, bring extra sgd just in case you crazily decided to tip 5m dongs for a hj.
3. Chiong places wise, there are many massage parlour and ktvs in D1. tourist prices though.

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Thanks for the reminder.
I will hug my valuables close to me these few days.;)