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Bakers and Tailors and CandleStick Makers - Hoi An

Hoi An, Vietnam


Finally Some Shopping!!

What Russ has been waiting for the whole trip, a place to flex his shopping muscles! Hoi An is a lovely little coastal town situated north of Na Trang, it has a lot of Chinese and French influences but is mostly famed for it's over night tailors.
Our first and most important stop was picking the right tailor, this ended up being a bit of a stab in the dark, there are about a million to chose from. As fate would have it we met a lovely young gentleman when we first arrived off the bus while having coffee, he ended up helping us order coffee, find a guest house and a tailor, a job well done.

Having a suit made in Vietnam is a bit of different experience from that one might expect in Saville Rowe, they firstly give you several different versions of the Next catalog to sift through, they then just repeatedly state that they know what you want even before you have told them. This ensured we had to make at least 4 repeat visits for adjustments. All in all I wish we had some empty suitcases to fill with tailor made attire!
Hoi An itself, is a lovely little town complete with quaint streets and buildings, a real highlight was finding the local bakery, which we frequented each day filling up on toasty warm fresh out of the oven bread. mmmmmm

permalink written by  Michael Russell on June 27, 2009 from Hoi An, Vietnam
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