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Ong Jon is currently in Vietnam, and I’ll be there in a couple days myself. My wife and I have plans to take Ong Jon and his wife out to dinner in either Nha Trang or Ho Chi Minh City. Ong Jon considers Nha Tran his hometown, while my wife and I have never been there. I would like to surprise Ong Jon by selecting an excellent restaurant in Nha Tran to dine at with him and his wife.

I need to know the name of the place, location and why it’s the best place to dine at in Nha Tran.

I’ll be in Vietnam in a couple days and stay for a little more than a month. My wife and I will have our honeymoon while I’m there. The honeymoon will be traveling around South Vietnam for a few weeks eventually ending up in Quang Tri to review a project that I’m involved with and then take a flight to Hanoi. We plan to see at least the following places:

· Vung Tau

· Da Lat

· Nha Trang

· Hoi An

· Da Nang

· Hue

I was wondering if anyone knows an interesting place or places that my wife and I should include in this journey. Keep in mind that my wife is native Vietnamese and I’ve seen enough small villages, pagodas, rivers and rice paddies in Vietnam to fulfill my lifetime quote. I don’t want the typical tour guide answer, but something different and interesting. So put your thinking caps on and help my wife and I add more flavor to our journey through South Vietnam.

My Dad and I are debating which beer is (or was) the best in Vietnam. He is a Vietnam Veteran (1964-1965), and claims that San Miguel was the best when he was there. My travels through Vietnam have found just about every province with their own brew, a few national brands and several imports. I have sampled at least the following brews in Vietnam:

- Bia Hanoi

- Bia Thai Binh

- Bia Hue

- Bia Saigon

- Tiger Beer

- 333

- Heineken

- San Miguel

- Something from a dead cobra

I would like to hear about other Vietnam beer drinking experiences to continue the intellectual conversation with my Dad. My questions are as follows:

1) What kind of beers did you experience in Vietnam?

2) Which one did you like the best and why?

3) Do you prefer bottled or draft (a.k.a. bia hoi)?

4) If you are a Vietnam Veteran, what beers did you drink back then and how do they compare to the Vietnamese beers now?

5) What would someone have to pay you to drink something that was fermented from a dead cobra?

Yahoo Answers has expanded Vietnam categories in travel and food to incorporate most all of the major cities there. So far, Vietnam is the only country in the Asia Pacific categories that Yahoo has done this too (sorry China and Japan). Once again, I'm submitting a multi-part question for you to answer:

1) What do you think about the expanded categories under Vietnam?

2) Do you think it is a good or bad thing?

3) Should Yahoo consider other categories under Vietnam (i.e. Travel > Vietnam > Transportation, Travel > Vietnam > Accommodations, etc.)?

4) Where are Phan Thiet, Phu Quoc, Quy Nhon and Tay Nguyen in reference to HCMC, Hanoi or Da Nang? If you've been to any of those cities, please describe the locations (I've never been to them myself).

5) Do you think the Chinese are going to get upset with Yahoo Answers for promoting Vietnam and snubbing China?

I lost over 20 lbs in less than three weeks when I traveled to Vietnam in late 2005. I lost 20 lbs again during my trip last year. I attribute my weight loss to difference in the foods I was eating and the lifestyle I was living in Vietnam. I believe I ate more while there, but a gallon of Vietnamese pho has less fat than a McDonald's cheeseburger. The typical house in Vietnam has several flights of stairs, and I could have done 1,000 stair steps a day by just roaming through the house.

I think that I might be onto something here, and I have a multi-part question for you to answer:

1) If you've been to Vietnam, did you lose weight when you were there?

2) How much weight did you lose?

3) What do you think was the reason for the weight loss?

4) Do you think that Vietnam could enter the multi-billion dollar weight loss industry with proper management and marketing?

Enquiring minds with fat bodies want to know!

I love Vietnamese food and I'm sure I'm not the only one out there who loves Vietnamese food. Let me and the rest of the world know where the best Vietnamese restaurant outside of Vietnam is.

Please elaborate about why your favorite Vietnamese restaurant is the best. Use links from a mapping service (http://maps.yahoo.com/ or http://maps.google.com/) to help everyone locate where the restaurant is at.

Happy Tet everyone!

I will be going to Vietrnam starting the middle of October, and staying till the middle of December. While there, I will be getting married in Ha Noi, honeymooning in Hoi An, visiting Da Nang, Nha Trang, Da Lat and Saigon.

I am wondering when Ong Jon will be visitng Vietnam next, and where might my fiancee' and I could cross his path.

(Easy 10 points for Ong Jon...)

My next trip to Vietnam is coming up, and I'm seriously thinking about hopping on a motorbike to get around instead of blowing money on taxis and drivers.

They drive nuts over there, but I think it is actually controlled chaos. I rode with friends on motorbikes, and found that they don't go all that fast, the natives rarely get into accidents and teenage Viet girls manage the traffic there effortlessly. That in mind, I want to tap into the 'secret' of diving in Vietnam.

So tell me if you drove or drive in Vietnam, and what advice can you give to drive like the natives.

Ong Jon - I'm especially looking for a great answer from you...

There is a park I went to in Vietnam where there were hundreds of monkeys. You can walk into the park and feed the monkeys. You can also take a boat ride to a Viet Cong jungle base that is setup for tourists.

Jews, Christians and Muslims have been trying kill each other and everyone else for centuries. Can anyone tell me if Buddhists ever killed anyone because of their religion?

What is the plural of Lexus?

i.e. "I just bought two cars form the Lexus dealership. I now own two lex___ ..."

I am getting married to a Vetnamese woman in Vietnam, and can use some suggestions in how to contend with the wedding customs.