1) No matter how early you wake up, there will be always people in the streets. ALWAYS. People that go to work, some that live in the streets or a few that have set their stands in order to start selling any kind of product.
DSCF2037In most of the countries I visited in Asia people start to wake up around 5 am. Heavy traffic, slow transportations and early sunrise are factors that indeed contribute to this fact. Remember Southeast Asia is the crowdest place on earth!
2) You will be asked personal questions all the time (get used to it, ladies!) I was asked hundreds of times if I was married or if I had kids as the first question in a conversation. It became so normal to me that at some point I didn’t feel intimidated.
3) Locals will want to take pictures with you probably as much (or more) as you want with/of them.
Curiosidades culturales en Vietnam - Cultural curiosities in Vietnam
Vietnamese guys that followed me to take a picture in every corner
Thai smily people
Smiley Thai girls in the Shutdown in February 2014, Bangkok.
4) Street food is vital, essential and delicious!
Food stand in Hanoi
When I was in Da Nang my cousin and me were even randomly invited to a Vietnamese picnic! It was so unexpected and nice!
Or you will even find some delicious food on boats!
Street food in Hanoi
These fried ‘things’ (sorry I forgot the name) I ate them both in Thailand and in Vietnam. In Thailand I ate it with sweet things and in Vietnam with a hot sauce. It reminded me a bit of churros, a Spanish delicious dessert which consists of fried flour and something else that we normally eat with hot chocolate. Yummy! =)
Bo bia ngot is a Hanoi snack made out of two very thin pancakes with a sheet of honeycomb on top. Not only that but it’s sprinkled with desiccated coconut and sesame seeds!
It’s really, really good! What appears on the picture is the small stand that you will find in the streets of Hanoi. Their owners carry them in their bikes (like almost anything else in Vietnam :P)
Bread in Vietnam
Bread vendor in Vietnam. Vietnam has a big influence from the French occupancy that lasted for some years. It’s the Asian country where I saw a bigger consumption of this product (normally in the neighboring countries they eat rice instead of bread)
5) Chaos is in the end, the only order you will find in Asia. Of course it depends on the country you visit but the tendency is to find cities a bit chaotic.
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