Vietnam has a few things that it is famous for and one of those things is their coffee that is grown here in the country. It is one of the most famous types in the world and I would be lying if I said that I have any idea why that is the case. I'm not a coffee snob and really can't taste the difference between one country's coffee and the next's. I'll just take the experts' word for it.

I believe that all of us have been though this minor heart attack that is not being able to find your phone suddenly while you are in public and this happened to me yesterday for about half an hour. It is not a nice feeling because even though I am not a heavy user as far as my phone is concerned, it does have basically my only access to a lot of things including my ability to do online banking as well as 2FA. I do have these things backed up but I think it is an understatement to say that reloading those things is a massive pain in the ass. I've had to go through it once in the past and I would say that it took me something like a full week to get everything properly loaded back up.

Vietnam is a very crowded country. There are over 90 million people here in a place that is roughly the size of Texas. Where I live in Da Nang it seems like everywhere you go is crowded and this is just part of life. As one might expect though, most people have jobs so they are out of sight for most of the day. The frustration exists during commuting hours of in the morning and in the evening just like it would be anywhere else i nthe world.

Beer is extremely cheap in Vietnam. I haven't traveled everywhere just yet but it is by far the cheapest place I have traveled to as far as the suds are concerned. There is one aspect of small businesses that you can always count on in this country and that is if the idea draws in any customers, this idea will quickly be copied by everyone. This is probably frustrating to the people that own the businesses, but for the consumers it is a big win since all of them now have to compete on quality and price levels.

I haven't delved much into Vietnamese food since living here because most of the delicacies are soup or noodle based and it is quite hot here most of the year. We had a bit of a cool spell that nobody could explain so I went and got one of my favorite $2 meals that is available on basically every street in this country. It is called My Quang and it is wonderful

People should recycle. I see no reason to not do so. In Vietnam there is a ton of recycling for profit that goes on all over the place and this is sadly, mostly accomplished because of poverty. Vietnam does quite well on recycling so good for them! They also have one of the worst pollution situations in the entire world because the waste management and mentality of the population as far as disposal or simply an attitude towards littering is very bad. When they installed this "go green" project in this city I got a little bit irked because I noticed right away that it was a farce and the only place it existed in the city was in the tourist areas. This was all a show to put on for the visitors to try to convince them that something Vietnam is known for - being bad polluters - was a topic that I believe they were trying to convince visitors that they were attempting to tackle.