Saigon Style

There is a Saigon Vietnam style formed many generations of people living here, as everywhere convergence of sediment piled layers throughout the long history of reclaiming the land.


Since the mid-seventeenth century, the region in general and the South Saigon in particular is a convergence of many different communities in circumstances. From Central impoverished strip of land, the people against the feudal institutions, the prisoners were brought here Lord Nguyen reclaiming career. Then the soldiers of his time in Nam build up savings, formed the colonist rule. Then the pursuit of the Tay Son army commanded by Nguyen Nhac do tan soldiers now share Nghe Anh Nguyen, a large number of rooted here.

The land is vibrant even in the presence of large traders as well as the brutal U.S. military Ming carrying the Chinese Manchu willed revenge, along with the local Khmer people to do tha. All gathered here, who brought the adventurous temperament should treat each other is as good as that story line between real drought in such earnest.


Nearly 100 years of French colonial rule, this land both early access to Western civilization. Geographically, the city of Saigon has both an international port should tend to open, other than an urban Hanoi introverted nature. Saigon river and city canals markedly influenced by tides. Nature had deeply affected the life style of Saigon, as received by the poet-historian Trinh Hoai Duc: "The hexagram of Ly Nam, the fire, the hexagram has the air of civilization. So guys here who are critical to learning, the hard-working people ... Why Land of Yangzhou, near the sun, so the more gas, high courage, contempt important financial means. "


All leave the bold mark of a stylish form communities that would later inherit the Saigon almost full.


The blood flow to the people of Sai Gon in the adventurous and sometimes reckless, not uptight think etiquette should say so, like communication. In doing the study in the U.S. to be traded to get first prestige. In social life they absorb the creative spirit and generosity of the West, dare to respond to the wrong thing and come with a strange, new things quickly.


This explains why Saigon is the earliest in the country formed an economy of goods and the latter is where most of the breakthroughs in the maintenance subsidy, as prerequisite for the renewal of year economic life of the social problems seemed insurmountable are.


The flow of history that has appeared a business class style Saigon dynamic, rapidly adapt to business practices of the market, promote creativity and sensitivity to food rather than relying on power relationships. This class entrepreneurs distilled the essence of many areas of convergence, is the market ready for the arms extend and expand the vision of the world and take risks to find opportunities to get rich.


Due to the generous people of Saigon are not allergic to the other places, along with the trend of increasing consumption has led Saigon became the land of healthy birds. To date, more than 300 years old city was no longer enough space for eight million people and millions of visitors. But Saigon also has the ability to quickly neutralize differences to create a very personal style with a comfortable lifestyle and sometimes real need, as to where to place game, definitely want something like of the year the weather has only two seasons.


A place to receive high volume of immigrants to the country sometimes on the street or in the luxury shops of the style appears very "non Saigon." That sounds odd swear, the words say eat coarse edge corners, making the social capital of Saigon being challenged.


But sooner or later it will be increasingly the image fading light, by just making a living on this land in seven years, almost everyone was infected the "Saigon style" soft delete Xue. To remember to Saigon and then went away as the memory of love and eager to bring the mood back when the youth of this city.