I have been in Ho Chi Minh City now for almost two weeks and the three questions that I get asked the most are:

1. Have you been to Vietnam before?
2. Can you use chop sticks?
3. How many countries have you visited?

Now I have interpreted these as the following:

1. Do you know what you have got yourself into?
2. Are you going to survive and how much of a foreigner are you?
3. How rich are you?

I have a couple of people, young adults and children each day say ‘hello’ to me and on a number of occasions they do the peace sign as well.  I may be a hang-over from the war?

Food is really cheap here along with things that you get in local shops, however, if you go to the mall, it is very expensive, probably the same or if not worse than Australia.