Vietnamese Coffee and American Pie

After our flying rice dinner we had Kiet drive us to District 1 so we could do Karaoke, Terry's favorite pastime. After driving around trying to find the perfect place we settled on Terry's second choice for places only to find it was packed and we were turned away at the door. So we headed back to District 3 where we were planning on going to a bar to listen to the music of their friend. The place we were going to is called Acoustic and features acoustical rock. It's at the end of a narrow alley-street with all kinds of music places from coffee shops to bars. Lights in the trees decorate the walled alley - - so beautiful! It's the tropical version of Greenwich Village or SoHo. Since it was only 7:45 we decided to go to a coffee bar first. The music there was violin, guitar, bass, and female singers. All music from the 1960's and really well done. The place was a Swiss Familiy Robinson looking place; all open air, a multi-level house, beautiful furniture - - very tropical. So perfect with floating flowers in water with candles. The ambiance was so relaxing. We drank Vietnamese coffee which is very thick and sweet poured over ice. It tastes exactly like those Coffee Nip candies. Yum! See the photo.

At 9:00 we headed over to Acoustic to the jam-packed, smoke-filled rock bar. A Vietnamese girl was singing when we got there - - I wish I had a tape of it. She was a fantastic performer and I could have listened to her all night long. Kind of a jazzy singer, more rock sounding than Norah Jones but on that same vein. Jeram, the guy we came to see, ran over to greet us and brought us to his standing table near the stage where is girlfriend Zoey was. He is in his late 30's and has a gravelly rough singing voice that makes him unique and a pleasure to listen to! He is fantastic. He only did a 15 minute set, sad for us! He dedicated a song to his friends Terry and Eileen and it was American Pie. I captured it with my moving camera so can't wait to hear him again via that! He did some Beatles, some Curt Cobain...a nice variety...but sang too short a time for my liking.