Tieng Viet lovers club

[naemlo]

Originally Posted by casannova03

So if you take 5 years can do that then you would have already overtaken me.. haha!!

I spent 5 yrs... n till now my only vietnamese is, "ba xa", "lam tinh", "du ma"

[casannova03]

Originally Posted by naemlo

I spent 5 yrs... n till now my only vietnamese is, "ba xa", "lam tinh", "du ma"

Dun bluff....you also know 'em yeu', 'an com', 'nguoi yeu' etc....

[naemlo]

Originally Posted by casannova03

Dun bluff....you also know 'em yeu', 'an com', 'nguoi yeu' etc....

Dunno lah.... I only know "kg tien"....

[rjrj]

Originally Posted by jackbl

Thanks for sharing! If free, aybe we can meetup the bro active in this thread for coffee/beer after i go back sgp, me at hoc mon now

you're very welcome bro..just out of curiosity what r u doing over there?

[casannova03]

Originally Posted by rjrj

you're very welcome bro..just out of curiosity what r u doing over there?

bro jackbl di vn gap ngoui yeu!! hahha

[jackbl]

Hoc Mon is further west of HCMC, after Tan Binh, near District 12...
Hoc Mon is a "HUYEN" while District 1 is a "QUAN"....

Originally Posted by technofreak

Where is Hoc Mon ha??

[jackbl]

I m here to recee all the places that the bro recommended.... hihi

Spent a lot of money but got nothing

Originally Posted by rjrj

you're very welcome bro..just out of curiosity what r u doing over there?

[Hurricane88]

Tasteful Vietnamese

A customer looks at the menu in the beautiful garden of Hoa Tuc Restaurant in HCMC’s District 1
Newly-opened Hoa Tuc Restaurant is a charming venue for fine dining in Ho Chi Minh City, where fresh, well-prepared dishes and the elegant setting will leave a lasting memory.


Just opposite the Park Hyatt Hotel and a two-minute walk from the historic Opera House, this restaurant and tea garden serves traditional Vietnamese fare with a contemporary twist.

Housed in the courtyard of a former opium refinery at 74 Hai Ba Trung Street, “Hoa Tuc” means poppy, and the theme is subtly apparent throughout. The green and purple interior makes it a perfect dining choice among foreign tourists and expatriates. The terrace, also known as the tea garden, is decked with cushions and lots of greenery.

The main dining area is an airy, white room with early 1900’s art-nouveau décor. Original columns of the colonial building combine with chandeliers made of bent copper tubing and rustic ceiling fans. Poppy patterns decorate the menu and shimmer in the framed wallpaper.

The restaurant offers a refined selection of classic Vietnamese, a mélange of dishes from north, south, and central areas which are traditionally prepared. The management recommends the entre “mixed platter of Hoa Tuc starters,” and “Hoa Tuc salad with seafood, fresh palm hearts and lotus stems.” For mains, both the “BBQ lemon grass beef with white noodle nest” and “sautéed glass noodles with crab and vegetable” are delicious. You can go local with “bo la lot,” a dish of grilled beef wrapped in a betel leaf.

The delectable array of desserts is the house specialty. Sample the sweet flavors of “banana and sago pearls in coconut cream” or “sesame sticky rice balls stuffed with bean paste in coconut soup” which are among the favorites.

In the tea garden, you can enjoy al fresco breakfast in the morning or romantic candle-lit dinners. There is an interesting variety of organic teas, green teas from Japan, and Korean rice tea plus a wide range of juices and shakes.

The wine menu is small but well- selected. Most are whites and roses imported from Italy, France, Australia and New Zealand priced between VND350,000 - 540,000 (US$21-32).

Reported by Thuy Nhien

[technofreak]

Originally Posted by jackbl

Hoc Mon is further west of HCMC, after Tan Binh, near District 12...
Hoc Mon is a "HUYEN" while District 1 is a "QUAN"....

Em biet roi anh oi...

Originally Posted by casannova03

Yap, in Sg, our language level is considered not bad but you have to keep in mind that VN gals actually lower their standards in order to communicate with us. SO....when you are in VN, our language level is only as good as 3-4 yr olds....at most 5-7 years old!!!! hahaha!!

I've spent 5 years and can only get the gist of what they are saying but dun understand what exactly they are talking about.

So if you take 5 years can do that then you would have already overtaken me.. haha!!

Then let's go practise tonight...Have nuoc mieng will travel...

[Hurricane88]

Dong declines on fears policy makers may seek weaker currency
The dong saw its biggest drop in a month on concern policy makers will widen the daily trading band and allow a weaker currency to support exports.


The currency traded near the lowest level in a month as Morgan Stanley this week said the dong may be devalued next year because of a widening trade gap, bad loans at local banks and the external debt owed by the government. The central bank last month expanded the dong’s trading band to 3 percent on either side of a fixed rate, from an earlier 2 percent.

“Investors are concerned about recent comments that the dong will weaken in the next few months so people want to hold on to dollars,” Vu Anh Duc, a senior dealer in the fixed-income department at Hanoi-based Vietnam Bank for Industry and Trade, known as VietinBank, said.

The dong declined 0.2 percent, the most since November 7, to VND16,983 per dollar as of 3:30 p.m. in Hanoi, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.

The State Bank of Vietnam fixed Thursday’s reference rate at VND16,489 per dollar, versus VND16,491 on Wednesday, according to the bank’s website.

Authorities may widen the band further to 5 percent to support exports, Duc said.

Source: Bloomberg

[jackbl]

Thanks for your translation, appreciated alot.

Originally Posted by rjrj

"ti nao" or "chut nao" i think its like "at all"..so that sentence could be translated as "my work is not stable at all"

same as:

"em khong thich ti nao" = i don't like it at all



bro i think we havevn't met..i'm not an active member

[jackbl]

Thanks for your translation, appreciated alot.

Originally Posted by VietnamLover

Vietnamese: Sai đâu toi sửa đấy cơ mà
English: Which place is wrong, I fix that.

Vietnamese: Thoi a ngu di dung lam e tuc gian. E ko biet gi ve no dau. Ma that ra a e minh doi xu voi nhau ntn moi la tot. E hieu ma.
English: You go sleep. Don't make me upset. I don't know anything about it. In fact, how we treat each other is good. I understand.

Vietnamese: cong viec kg on dinh ti nao
English: The job is not stable at all.

[jackbl]

Hi, from the material that bro TF passed to me, the essential from his lesson is the ability to pronounce each vietnamese character, e.g NG, NH, etc... for vocabulary, this have to be learnt outside class.... thru self-learn or sms or reading newspaper, etc

Originally Posted by casannova03

You think worth it or not? All this while i self learn but seems that will always get stuck after some time.(cos no new words from msgs or conversations with ba xa)

does going for lessons helps a lot?

[technofreak]

Originally Posted by jackbl

Hi, from the material that bro TF passed to me, the essential from his lesson is the ability to pronounce each vietnamese character, e.g NG, NH, etc... for vocabulary, this have to be learnt outside class.... thru self-learn or sms or reading newspaper, etc

Hmmm...So your proCunTciation is very good already huh??? Wahaha

[jackbl]

No, not very good yet. I think need to go there for a month to undergo thorough training then can consider pass...

Originally Posted by technofreak

Hmmm...So your proCunTciation is very good already huh??? Wahaha