Two reasons: well, he was in fact a chicken, and second he happened to be in Ho Chi Minh City. Actually that chicken is me. Michele tells me that I am going to have to cross the street at some point during our visit. I disagree. The air conditioning at our modest hotel (by the name of Madame Cuc 127 ) works well, and we have a flight out of here in two days' time. Admittedly things might get a skinny on the food side. As far as I can tell, this is the menu:
Luckily man does not live on food alone. There is always the view from the bedroom window to nourish the soul:
Most people here travel by scooter, but what cars there are, are all weirdly new, and weirdly (given the traffic) undented. The Chaos Theory of Road Safety holds that the more chaotic driving conditions are, the better people drive and the safer it is for everybody. Judging by the pristine condition of the cars in this city, motorists and scooter riders alike, must all be really skilled. A 2016 contributor to Forbes magazine attributes the newness of the cars to the spending power of Vietnam's rising middle class. The article also notes that all these new cars do nothing for the country's pollution problems, citing one survey that ranked Vietnam 170th out of 178 countries in terms of air quality.
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