Vietnam 2015; Hoian

Happy 2016 to all as I continue with blogging about Stanley and my Vietnam Trip!

Day 5 of Central Vietnam 2015.

Today we spend our day in Hoi An Ancient Town! Having explore the town at night we marked out the sight seeing site we want to visit and decided to use the day to visit them! To visit the sight seeing sites, you need to purchase a ticket that is 120,000 dong (SGD$8), this ticket will allow you entrance to 5 sight seeing site that can be museum, old houses, communal houses, assembly halls, workshops, or performances.

Background of the Ancient Town:
In the 16th and 17th centuries, Hoi An was the international trading centre in south Vietnam. foreign merchant ships came to Hoi An in great numbers for annual commercial fairs, each lasted from 4 to 6 months. Right in this town, Japanese, Chinese, Dutch, Indian traders set up their emporiums or established their own quarters for habitation.

Thanks to UNESCO, the site is now preserved as a world heritage site to keep the rich history of Hoi An alive.

Hoai Bridge! 

Temple in the Ancient Town. 

Exploring the town! 

Japanese Covered Bridge

2nd breakfast! Banh Mien! 

The best in Hoi An! 

Banh Mi QUEEN! 

Cafe hopping in the Ancient Town! 

Sight-seeing Stop 1: Museum of Folk Culture

Sight-seeing Stop 2: Hoi An Art Craft Manufacturing Workshop

Where Hoi An Craft is made! 

Lanterns! 

Bamboo Products! 

Hoi An Performing Art

Hoi An Bingo! 

Sight-seeing Stop 3: Quan Thang Old House

The house belong to a Chinese merchant and is 300 years old. The current owner of the house is the 6th generation of the original owner living there. 

old kitchen! 

After 3 stops of sight-seeing, we decided to walk further down from the Ancient Town to the local market! 

Hoi An Market! 

Street Food! 

Cao Lao! 

Pho Bo! 

Sight-seeing Stop 4: Museum of Trade Ceramics. 

Night Street of Hoi An Ancient City! 

Local Food! 

After dinner, my dare-devil husband decided to hunt for more street food! And we seat down at random street stalls to see what is sold and try the food! Not being able to speak in Viet, we simple point and see what they serve us, and whatever is given we try! 

Some Viet sweet treats. No idea what is it? 

Viet Wanton! 

Ending the day with another cafe chill! 

Day 6 of Central Vietnam 2015. 

Last day in Hoi An and we continue to visit the Ancient Town! 

Visited 2 more site; Museum of Sa Huynh Culture and Nguyen Tuong Family's Chapel. The Chapel belongs to the late royal officer of the royal army-Nguyen Tuong Van in 1820 under Minh Menh Emperor of the Nguyen Dynasty. Sir Van was a famous mandarin of the Royal Nguyen Dynasty.  

Ending our stay at Hoi An, we head off to Da Nang City! 

Bridge!

As X'mas draws near, the time of the year where I always feel kind of confuse as on one hand it is the season of love, giving and celebration, but on the other hand as X'mas creeps nearer, it also means the ending to my month long holiday and the fact that school will start again real soon. Thus always feels rather confused and upset during this period.

But either way, X'mas is arriving and it is time for all the crazy shopping and madness buying again! So decided to take a full day off with my little sister; Phyllinda and spend a day with her shopping and eating! We did not really get to spend alot of time out this year together as she is doing her masters and I have already moved out, thus needed to really just spend time and get together with her so what other better time than now! And when the Tan's Sisters are out there will be food!

I decided to cafe with Phy as she is a cafe hopper while i am totally lost in the cafe world! So being in Bugis, she decided to bring me to Bridge @ 31 Seah St for Brunch! She been there a few time and claims that it is a nice quite cafe with tasty Honey Truffle Toast! So there we go!

The outside of Bridge! 

Nice Modern furnishing and of course as it is the X'mas season, there is X'mas deco everywhere! 

My sis! Phy Phy Tan. 

Their Menu, Price is the usual cafe price! A little more pricey compared to the heartland cafe which I am more familiar to! 

Upon entering the cafe, we were greeted by their super nice staff. I would say service there is really good; they are friendly and tell you what is recommended and what are on promotion! So on the day that we were there, there is this one main one dessert and one free drink promo! And thus, we decided to go for it! 

Flat White! 

Matcha Latte! 

Phy Phy with the drinks! 

Highly recommended Honey Truffle Toast which was really nice! 

I would say this is a must try as you can really taste the truffle in it and the honey gives it a nice balance! Best of all it looks soooooooo pretty!!! 

62 Degree Egg. 

This comes with egg, Truffle mash, mushroom with Bacon and a toast! 

Not too bad but i would prefer it to have more bacon! haha! 

Either way, the food there is tasty and the serving is alright, as we were rather full after meal. After Brunch, we head out shopping and basically had a full day of fun and shopping buying lots of stuff and lots of present for all our loved ones just because it is X'mas! 

So Blessed Merry X'mas to all!!