BlogHide Resteemsgabe.radke (77)in food • 4 days agoTrying out Greek food in Da NangLately I have found myself in a bit of a "food slump" and after a month or so of having too much in the way of burgers and pizza and also being dead tired of the usual Vietnamese offerings, I…gabe.radke (77)in vietnam • 9 days agoVietnam tourism is booming, up 20% from last yearThis is something that I am both pleased about and also a bit upset about but I try to keep my tone a bit neutral when I talk about it because not only am I not Vietnamese, but I also chose to live…gabe.radke (77)in vietnam • 26 days agoIf you see one of these out your condo window in Da Nang, start looking for a new place to liveDa Nang is a wonderful place and I enjoy living here for the most part although there are certain things about it that are beyond my control that if I could change them I would. One of the main…gabe.radke (77)in vietnam • last monthFinally, some decent architecture and cleanlinessVirtually everything in Da Nang, and almost the entirety of Vietnam is a rather boring, cement rectangle. I'm not judging the Vietnamese because what else are you supposed to do with urban land…gabe.radke (77)in vietnam • last monthCajun seafood boil. An almost wonderful experience in VietnamHere in My An, Da Nang, Vietnam, we have almost any sort of cuisine you can imagine but that doesn't necessarily mean that it is very good. This next restaurant caught me by surprise because…gabe.radke (77)in food • last monthHow many Indian restaurants is "enough?" in Da Nang?We joke about this a lot here in the expat community. It wasn't that long ago that there was a single solitary Indian restaurant in our part of Da Nang, which is considered to be one of the major…gabe.radke (77)in art • last monthMore street art finds in the Da Nang, Vietnam art-parkI've named it the art park. There is no official designation for it to be a tourist attraction but since the pieces are all pretty good and in highly visible areas it does seems as though this was…gabe.radke (77)in art • last monthSome new decent street art finds in Da Nang, VietnamI'm a big fan of street art, especially spray and especially especially when the person who made it clearly had permission to do so. I don't know if they were taking a page out of the Penang…gabe.radke (77)in danang • 2 months agoFirst long rainstorm of the summer season, and it has been glorious!Vietnam is a tropical country, Da Nang is a city very near the beach in that tropical country. Because of this, we get rain storms that last for days on end and when it happens, I hope you managed…gabe.radke (77)in vietnam • 2 months agoShould you get a motorbike while visiting Vietnam?I am writing this because recently a friend of mine was leaving the country and he offered to sell his motorbike really cheap to anyone that was willing to pay 4 million VND for it. I don't really…gabe.radke (77)in telegram • 2 months agoTelegram block in Vietnam results in overall slowdown of ALL internet trafficThis is not something that is being admitted by anyone in charge or by the companies that were charged with making it happen. That's now how things work here. I am basing this off of the…gabe.radke (77)in vietnam • 2 months agoIs the weather getting milder in Vietnam or am I just getting tougher?Over the years of living in a tropical country coming from a non-tropical one, I was very affected by the heat and humidity that exists here in Vietnam. For almost all of the year I would be in…gabe.radke (77)in vietnam • 2 months agoTelegram app blocked in Vietnam as of 24-May-2025Vietnam has been threatening to do this for weeks and I guess they finally got around to it because today when I was popping out a few messages to friends I noticed the little spinning wheel of…gabe.radke (77)in danang • 2 months agomy hopes of beach beautification squashed in just one day!When the crews came by and tore down this eyesore of a building on the beach and there was just an open space there for a time, I was hopeful that perhaps there was sort of reclamation project going…gabe.radke (77)in vietnam • 2 months agoBuilding demolished on the beach and it looks much better without itThere is a fine line between having enough buildings to accommodate the tourists near or on the beach, and then overcrowding with those same buildings. Da Nang has allowed what I consider to be a…gabe.radke (77)in life • 3 months agoTeaching English can be a drag, but it pays the billsI have been teaching English online for the past 5 years using a company based out of China. They will hire people anywhere in the world if you are a native English speaker and even a few people…gabe.radke (77)in streets • 3 months agoTwo good street art finds in Da NangNeither one of these are spray, but the are also custom and are not decals. Recently I was in a Mexican restaurant and at first I was amazed at how good their custom art was until I got up close to…gabe.radke (77)in vietnam • 3 months agoAnother disappointing addition to the Da Nang neighborhoodI start to feel like I am always complaining but that isn't because this particular thing affects my life, it doesn't, at all. I am just disappointed because there was a real opportunity here to…gabe.radke (77)in vietnam • 4 months agoVietnam considering long-term "golden visa!" Don't get excited... you wont get oneVietnam has always seemed to be content to simply sit out the tourism game although you would never know that by coming to visit Da Nang. This place is basically overrun with tourists year round…gabe.radke (77)in vietnam • 4 months agoThe gloomy and cool weather is still sticking around well into April!I think maybe I talk about this a bit too much but if you lived through what my environment is for the past several years as a Westerner, I think you might be better able to understand why I am so…
