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•C2, a well-known brand of green tea here in the Philippines, is being sold in the streets of Saigon. I’ve also seen some TV commercials about C2 in some Vietnam TV channels. Unknown to some, the green tea that Robina uses in manufacturing C2 comes from Vietnam.

•I have seen some feed stores in Vietnam selling B-Meg which is a popular brand of feeds in the Philippines being produced by San Miguel Corp. Did you know that the B in B-Meg stands for Bacillus? Just visit their site for the explanation; it has something to do with fermentation.

•San Miguel Beer is also available in Vietnam and in Siem Reap although it doesn’t come cheap. So I opted for Saigon Beer which has a bottle bigger than the usual beers that we have here, almost the same size as the 500ml Red Horse.

•Banks in the area of Pham Ngu Lao do not close at three or five in the afternoon. They stay open even at night. Also, unlike here in the Philippines where a bank has several guards who would insist on frisking everyone who enters, their bank only has one who wouldn’t even open the door for the customer.

•There are plenty of English language schools in Vietnam and Cambodia. They hire native speakers as teacher and the pay is of course based on skin color. Whites get the highest pay of course (up to 3,000 USD depending on experience). Even though only the affluent ones study in these schools, the effect is that the graduates speak American or European English.