It may dishearten you to learn that most restaurants in Ho Chi Minh City shy away from Vietnamese food
Preferring instead to cater for every possible touristy whim by providing absurdly expansive menus offering Thai, Indian, Mexican, Italian (avoid) dishes. You can certainly get Vietnamese dishes there and they're generally very good, but only to the same standard as the Chinese stuff on the same menu, and scarcely with any distinctively Viet elements.

Also; they don't have any words of more than one syllable. What's up with that?

My new thing is to flirt less. And to make statements that cause anyone reading them to splutter into their tea with incredulity
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 13:52, 2 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

Nooooo!
Why are you flirting less. It should be more.
( girlinthehole, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 13:54, Reply)

Oh please
I couldn't stop flirting if I was a mute quadraplegic

Crackin' norks by the way
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 14:08, Reply)

Fanku : D

( girlinthehole, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 14:15, Reply)

Please don't end up looking like Madonna
as it would only enhance my reputation as a bumder if I were to be seen flirting with a man
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 14:16, Reply)

Good God!
No chance of that happening. I look too much like a guy already to go down that route.
( girlinthehole, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 14:25, Reply)

This is clearly bollocks
My tall girl fetish is well-established and I've heard rumours of magnificent, non-mannish breasts
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 14:31, Reply)

Well Ok from the front I am most definitely female.
And since I've grown my hair I haven't been called Sir in quite a while.
( girlinthehole, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 14:33, Reply)

I don't think I've ever been called Sir
but from my point of view it's not a good thing
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 14:36, Reply)

I planned to get mine from Shoreditch so I'm not all that disheartened, to be honest.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 14:02, Reply)

You strike me as an explanatory type who might designate Vietnam as a holiday destination based on this cuisine
so I thought I'd pass on this experience. Or maybe I'm just seizing an opportunity to bang on about my awesome holiday. Pick one.
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 14:08, Reply)