[travel] Pics or it diidn't happen

[mattbell]

In downtown Saigon, there was a clothing store called “Gizz fashions”.

The 12 year old in me has also noticed that certain Vietnamese store signs are very good at inadvertently getting Westerners' attention. There's been “Hung Long”, “Long Phuc”, even “Long Dung”, but no “Long Dong” just yet. I really need to look up these things in a VN->English dictionary to see what they actually mean.

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[easwaran.livejournal.com]

In some version of Chinese, some word often transcribed as "Long" means "dragon". I don't know if this is the same word here, but it would be a fairly natural word to borrow from another language, and I know it's a common word in Asian restaurant names that have been translated to English, so that might be half of all these names. but I really don't know.