{"id":2835,"date":"2010-02-03T23:57:04","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T07:57:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=2835"},"modified":"2010-02-05T00:01:28","modified_gmt":"2010-02-05T08:01:28","slug":"not-like-thailand-more-like-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=2835","title":{"rendered":"Not like Thailand&#8230;more like India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shipra paused for a moment.  &#8220;It&#8217;s more like India,&#8221; she said.  &#8220;You&#8217;re going to have fun!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Having realized that Tokyo was expensive and that Taiwan&#8230;was going to be pricey (and too much like Hong Kong), I decided impulsively to visit Vietnam based on a <a href=\"\"http:\/\/blogs.kqed.org\/bayareabites\/2009\/11\/04\/saigon-street-food\/\">street food blog<\/a> I saw passing by on my twitter feed.  Vietnam was meant to be my side stop on my trip to Hong Kong.  A vacation from Hong Kong from sorts.<\/p>\n<p>I shall go to Saigon I had decided by late November.  As I was investigating the cost of my stay and tours, it turned out it was more pricey by myself.<\/p>\n<p>I read many guides\u00e2\u20ac\u201dstalking the libraries and local bookstores.<\/p>\n<p>When I asked a friend who went to Vietnam recently&#8230;she hadn&#8217;t been there since she was 2, she was appalled by the smells, the dirt, the hectic-ness.  I remember my first experience in China back in 2002, having been surprised by the traffic.  I was prepared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shipra paused for a moment. &#8220;It&#8217;s more like India,&#8221; she said. &#8220;You&#8217;re going to have fun!&#8221; Having realized that Tokyo was expensive and that Taiwan&#8230;was going to be pricey (and too much like Hong Kong), I decided impulsively to visit &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=2835\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[22],"class_list":["post-2835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-hong-kong"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2835"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2844,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2835\/revisions\/2844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}