Yikes! Xe Maybe just posted that the VN government has cleared all chickens out of Hà Nội. That is very hard to imagine considering the chickens everywhere that we saw when we were there last month. And like Xe Maybe says, there is only so much pork you can eat when chicken is no longer available in the market.
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Houses in Ho Chi Minh City
- Unlike Hà Nội where most new houses have a very historicist decorative design, the new houses in Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) are more modernist if not just utilitarian. And while the houses in Hà Nội are most often painted ochre or vermillion, there is a much greater use of other colors in HCMC. As in Hà Nội, most houses are "tube houses" in that they are very narrow but very long. Although I haven't confirmed this yet, it is said that these lots are narrow because property taxes are based on the width of the lot at the street line. In HCMC, I guess (without confirmation yet) that many of the new houses are designed by young architects trying out new ideas, and this is very good to see. This in contrast to the usual utilitarian modernist larger buildings in HCMC. These pictures can be viewed by clicking on the first or top picture in the album and then click "next" on each photo to proceed though the album in slide show fashion.
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16 November 2005
No chickens in Hà Nội?
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