Daily Life here in Imperia An Phu

Today is our 4th day here at Imperia An Phu. Imperia An Phu is the apartment that we are residing currently in HCMC. It is located at An Phu area in District 2, Ho Chi Minh City. We start our day very early here in Saigon, as Fajr started at 4.32 a.m. However, offices starts at the same normal hour in Malaysia which is around 8.00a.m or 8.30 a.m, while business like shopping mall, groceries shop and salon will starts business at about. 9.30 a.m or 10.00 a.m.

As you see in the above photo, a lot of motorcycles on the road , if we are in KL it will surely jammed with cars. It was informed that there are 32 million of motorcycles on the road daily in Vietnam. You can always get this information when you take a taxi when the driver is friendly enough to talk with you.

At our apartment, the company's car, taxi and buses are busy picking up their passenger as early as 6.45 a.m. Majority of working people at our apartment will be picked up by their company's car to their work. The kids will take a school bus to their school. The nearest International school to our apartment is Australian International School. This is where my daughter's schooling.

We are lucky as Parkson is just a walking distance from our apartment. Besides groceries shop, we could find some fresh fish and vegetables from Parkson. Last time I did buy some fresh cut cat fish and cut snapper. Price for seafood is quite cheap  as compare to KL. However, we have difficulties to find HALAL chicken, beef and lamb. It was on our second day, we did some shopping at Parkson in District One where we found rib eye cut beef that cost us 224,000.00 vnd (around RM33) for a 400gm meat. Another shopping spot for fresh food is METRO but I yet to go there. My husband told me that it is more like TESCO when they just opened in Shah Alam where shoppers are buying in a large volume.

Ho Chi Minh is a busy city however the life is so simple and leisure. Not much competition in life and relaxed. I started to love HCMC.