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Originally Posted by Carrot007
Good post... and VERY true fact about cheonging in Hanoi... Upped you for this !  |
Xin cam on anh ca rot.
Ha Noi will always be a mystical wonderland for me. It was the first time I had ever travelled on a business trip and was a complete and utter newbie. Let me share something with you. That 1st trip I took I was staying at a Pho Hue hotel. I asked the concierge where a nice KTV was and he directed me to a local one.
As a total "toot", I went to the brightest most crowded one I could find (Sillyporean tendencies appearing; got crowd sure must be good) and to summarize: 1) Paid USD120 for nuts, fruits, towel, beer, tips for all the GROs...but not the eventual chosen xinh gai! 2) She said she wanted to leave at 11:45pm. I no speak any Tieng Viet then (mine still quite condemned) and so in chicken duck talk style was trying to convince her to go out for a quickie. Didn't realise it was the signal for me to go out with her! 3) Ended up in a Nha Nghi in god-knows-where and had to find a xe om to take me back. Damage for the whole ST was USD50. I paid the xe om driver/rider VND100,000 as I thought it was a long ride. Turns out (I found out later) that it was only a 10 minute ride if he had just ridden the shortest way through. 4) Found out I was totally screwed (cashwise and physically) when I check with FRs on SBF then.
Hence I believe that either one has a good "mentor" or speak at least some Tieng Viet to have a more reasonably priced escapade in HN. After everything though, today I look back at it all and laugh.
