In a get-together of my highschool gang, a classmate said that she wwould like to to open a “Cong” (Vietnamese short way for “Communism”) cafe in Saigon and wondered if the idea was possible. What came to my mind at that time was “Excuse me? A communist-styled decorated coffee shop in Saigon? You must be kidding me.”
Tag: nostalgia
Hanoi Today, Anything to Miss?
Whenever talking about a beautiful Hanoi, I wonder why it is always a uniform image for almost everyone: some tiny street corner which must be in the Old Quarter. So how about Hanoi of today? Is there anything to miss?
Subsidy era nostalgia
By reminiscing about the Subsidy era, Vietnamese show their resistance toward the present. The idealistic world of the old days is always depicted as a peaceful time when life was simple; virtue and high morality prevailed despite hardship to contrast with today’s corrupting and turbulent world.