
I was born and grow up in Saigon. When I was a child, with me, Saigon is all the world, and my country is our alley, is the stretch of road which I go to school everyday, is our neighbouring, friends, teachers, the Church and school.
Now, I know, Saigon is not "the world". Someday I recognize I like to ride motorbike or bicycle around Saigon alleys, eat something, see something and meet someone.
Point of view, Saigon-Ho Chi Minh city is connected closely with alleys. They are straight alleys, tortuous alleys, cleanly alleys but some so in a jumble. But on the whole, there was a part of the urban living, this is the palce where all the activities of people happened such as selling clothes, greasy spoons, noodies shops, sugar-cane juice machines, inns, motor deports and motor repair shops as well.
Most of them without name, only numbers. More and more alleys are upgrading with full of banderols propagating modern life styles in these places.
If you wandered around HCM city without spending a time going into the alley, this is such as not go into detail of Saigon - so-called Pearl in the Far East.