What can u buy with $1.oo usd in vn?

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rick m

You can buy quite a lot with a dollar, for instance;
1. one liter of pepsi and a watermelon for those hot days.
2. two liters of orange soda and a big chunk of ice for those really hot days.
3. 21 liters of distilled water and a really big chunk of ice for those really, really hot days.
4, you can sit in a cafe in the country-side and drink 4 cafe sua da's (ice coffee with milk) or you can drink 1 of the same in the cities or tourist traps.
5. you can eat banh my thit noi for breakfast and a plate of rice and a pork chop for lunch in my town.

You can really buy a lot of stuff here for a dollar if you know what to buy. I'm not saying that Saigon, Hanoi etc are rip-offs, the vendors pay a HUGE amount of rent for those small stalls in the big markets. But when you get away from the cities, your money goes very far.
A shirt will cost you a couple of dollars (unless you like Izod, then $4). I don't think they grow cotton in Viet Nam and most if not all is imported.

@Ong Jon... Your advice is always great,,,, but Vietnamese ice cream... Man, you've got to stop at my house the next time your "in country" for the real deal, #1, wacky jacky, home-made stuff. All natural, no preservatives,,, It never lasts that long. (you'll have to bring your own pop gun, though.) lol

ong jon

vietnamese breakfast on the street, coffee, beer, yes candy, short moto bike ride[2-3 miles], l o n g bus ride, pack of post cards, postage on overseas letter.... a decent shirt will cost $6-10, but if you bargain well you can get a "t" shirt or baseball cap for a "buck", about 3-8 loto tickets depending on the game. ICE CREAM.. dont pass up those ice cream carts.. or better said dont let them pass you.. used to be you could get 30 for a dollar!!!.. you can still get 3.. if you ever see i guy peddling by with a music box and a "pop gun" he's selling pulled taffy with peanuts in it [ delicious] and thats less than a dollar and if you can shoot a cork through a target loop with the pop gun ..IT'S FREE !!.. and you can get 3-4 bags of peanuts for $1.. but you should offer more.. oh yeah, just about everything the street walking "cigarette girls carry and sell is less than a buck as is almost all fruit in viet nam
, you can get a about 5 -10 pictures developed depending on where you are, and you can get 300 picture put on a cd for only a little more than 1 dollar if you know where to go..[ biet thu street, nha trang]... the dollar goes a L O N G W A Y in viet nam...

@ RICK M "wack - jacky" huh ?... you dont have to ask me twice.. i'll be there , and i always have my own "pop gun".....
...i realy dont know what that means..lol....but i Will be there ..

forgotten_glory

I came back from Vietnam like, a couple weeks ago. It was awesome. In order to take advantage of the exchange rate though, you gotta avoid the tourist traps. If you buy like, a sandwich from a street vendor, or you buy pho, then it will cost you somewhere around 10,000-12,000 dong. It's pretty awesome. $1 US = about 17,500 VD...so it's a great exchange rate. You can also buy about 3 bottles of water with that if you look in the right place. You will want to keep that in mind as it can get very warm. Don't pay with US dollars though. They will rip you off. Insist to pay in dong.

rahim_al_kajai

1. A box of Cigarette
2. A bowl of Pho (not Pho 24 or Pho 2000)
3. A local Lunch...

ken

for 1 meal

roninryu8

Ok here's the thing that people don't get. Just because money frequencies are different doesn't mean its worth changes. 1 USD here is 17,000 vnd there, but it's still worth the same. So If you bought a hamburger here for 1 dollar, there it would be 17,000 vnd.

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