The best coffee experience I had was in Hanoi at this hard to find coffee shop that makes egg coffee known as Cafe Hen. It came down to this one merchant who was very friendly and gave us the price that we haggled for. I was overhelmed with so many vendors to choose from that are selling the exact same thing. So we went to Ben Thanh market and tasted so many that I was pretty wired after the the fourth or fifth ones. My good friend Natalie flew in from Singapore to meet up with me and she loves Vietnamese coffee because they are harder to find and much more costly in Singapore. The weasel makes expensive coffee and I couldn’t fathom the idea of spending 10 times more for a cup of Java that I drink everyday. It was meant to be and I just have to buy them on my last day in Vietnam. I do love his newer pieces with his soulful self portrait on wood, but these two street scene works will fit the walls of Saigon Sisters perfectly. So there they were in front of me, the two pieces that I have been looking for all this time. The next day,I walked into the gallery with my pink running shirt and shorts not looking like an art buyer by all means. Luckily, Diego the owner and fashion designer of Chula invited me to his office and connected me with the artist via email and facebook! That evening I got a fb message from Ngo Van Sac telling me to check out his work at a local gallery near the lake. Except Ngo Van Sac exhibition is a week later and I won’t get to see it. So I went to Chula to check it out and just loved the place and the vibe. The picture in the article was a self portrait of the artist imposed on wood using a fire burning technique called pyrography (the third frame picture above). I saw an article on Vietnam Air magazine about an art show at Chula (fashion and art space) in Hanoi. This is how I came to own these two beautiful multimedia artworks. I am glad that my search ended up in Hanoi with local artist Ngo Van Sac at Thang Long Gallery. So I have been on the lookout for their replacements at art shows and galleries wherever I went. I dreaded the day when the two pieces from Theaster Gates which have hung on my restaurant walls for two years will be returned to its owner. I didn’t expect to find the perfect artwork on my last day in Vietnam after my morning run around Hoi Kiem lake. Vietnam’s first skybar L’Usine, 151/1 Dong Khoi Intersection of Le Loi and Tran Hung Dao Sts., District 1ġ0 Dang Tat, Tan Dinh Ward, District 1 84-8/3848-0144Ģ60C Pasteur St., District 3 84-8/829-7943ġ60 Pasteur St., District 1 84-8/3827-7131.Īu Pagolac at 978 Trần Hưng Đạo, district 5, Saigon (in front of the market, a block north of the bridge) no phone banh mi for $1ħ4 Suong Nguyet Anh St., District 1 84-8/3833-0534 (+84 (0) 510 386 2212 located across the street from Mango Roomġ10 Nguyen Thai Hoc Street is Hoi An’s longest running bar, set in an imposing French colonial trading house
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