Ho Chi Minh City Day 1

Day 1:
Once arrival in Ho Chi Minh Airport.. When passed by the custom of Republic of Vietnam, some of my trip mates said that I'm look like Vietnamese.. Gosh.. I'm so 'international face' ah? A Chinese looks like Malay, Korean & Vietnamese.. Haha.. But the officer in the custom looks not that friendly..

After picked up the luggages, we being interviewed by pretty tv reporter when exchanging our currency..
1 USD = 2100000 Dong
RM1 = 6500 Dong

The condition in Saigon airport is quite differently with what we have in KLIA or LCCT.. The crowd is so 'silent'..

After lunch, we have a visit on Nutrition Center of Ho Chi Minh City..
I had an amazing experience on their effort on educating nutrition to their population..
The mainly problem here are Vit A Deficiency and Iodine Deficiency..
They even having a special nutrition center for educating nutrition to their population,
and they used medical doctor for nutrition counselling because they didn't have speciality on nutrition and dietetics in Vietnam.. So, those staffs in nutrition center are mainly from medical doctor and those graduated from public health.. The way of their nutrition education is very different than us in which they will teach the patients how to cook.. In their nutrition center, they have at least 6 room for nutrition counselling and kitchen in each room..

Vietnam Food Pyramid 

Baby weighting scale

We also having seminar with the staffs in the nutrition center.. We presented some cultural of Malaysia and they presented us some of the dance and song of Vietnam.. The presenters are all the staffs in nutrition center.. Some of them are so PRETTY..

Besides, I'm also 'terkejut' with their transport system.. 8 millions of population in Ho Chi Minh, 4 millions of motorbikes but a lots pretty girls on the bikes.. hehe.. Traffic lights just for decoration, although it is red, motorbike still moving and motorbikes are 'dai sai' than big cars.. Phew~ You only can experienced it when you are here.. Where Malaysian Mat Rempit can died if we put them here.. haha..

The 1st day of Ho Chi Minh City just ended like this for me since feeling unwell.. Slept after dinner till next day morning while all my gang having night outing at their so called famous "Ben Thanh Market" which they complaint only need 1 hour to finish it.. haha..