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February 2014 COMPLIMENTARY COPY ENTARY COPY READ ME TAKE ME COMPLIMENTARY COPY COMPLIMENTARY COPY COMPLIMENT VIETNAM FEBRUARY 2014 MEN OF MUSCLE Bodybuilding Taken to the Next Level PAGE 27 THE RESTORATION LAB Rare Books Get a New Life PAGE 30 LIFE IS A CABARET, OLD CHUM Classic Dinner Theater Comes to Saigon PAGE 44 INSIDE THE WORLD OF WORK The Working Lives of Everyday Locals PAGE 92 A Family Affair 1 2 3 CO M PLIME ENTA N R TAR Y C O PREAD Y ME TAKE ME Y C O PY COMP COMP L IMEN L I M T E N T A R Y C O P A R Y C O P Y COMPLIM Y E NT VIETNAM FEBRUARY 2014 MEN OF MUSCLE Bodybuilding Taken to the Next Level PAGE 27 THE RESTORATION LAB Rare Books Get EVERYWHERE YOU GO a New Life PAGE 30 LIFE IS A CABARET, OLD CHUM Classic Dinner Theater Comes to Saigon PAGE 44 INSIDE THE WORLD OF WORK The Working Lives of Everyday Locals PAGE 92 Director XUAN TRAN A Family Business Consultant ROBERT STOCKDILL [email protected] Affair 093 253 4090 1 Managing Editor CHRISTINE VAN [email protected] This Month’s Cover Image: Ngoc Tran Deputy Editor JAMES PHAM Model: The Tran Family [email protected] Make Up: Huyen Phan Researcher GEORGE BOND [email protected] Associate Publisher KHANH NGUYEN [email protected] Graphic Artist HIEN NGUYEN [email protected] Staff Photographers NGOC TRAN ADAM ROBERT YOUNG Publication Manager HANG PHAN [email protected] 097 430 9710 For advertising please contact: JULIAN AJELLO [email protected] 093 700 9910 NGAN NGUYEN [email protected] 090 279 7951 ƠI VIỆT NAM JIMMY VAN DER KLOET [email protected] NHÀ XUẤT BẢN THANH NIÊN 094 877 9219 Chịu trách nhiệm xuất bản: Đoàn Minh Tuấn Biên tập: Nguyễn Giang - Quang Hùng KATE TU [email protected] Thực hiện liên kết xuất bản: 091 800 7160 Metro Advertising Co.,Ltd 231-233 Lê Thánh Tôn, Phường Bến Thành, Quận 1 THU VU (HANOI) [email protected] 090 624 9700 In lần thứ mười một, số lượng 6000 cuốn, khổ 21cm x 29,7cm Đăng ký KHXB: 1110-2013/CXB/4 -52/TN QĐXB số: 366/QĐ-TN/CN General Chế bản và in tại nhà in Lê Quang Lộc [email protected] Nộp lưu chiểu tháng 1/2014 Inquiries [email protected] Website: www.oivietnam.com 4 5 Contents COVER STORY A FAMILY AFFAIR Touching stories of the meaning of family and our annual Tet Guide FEAT32URES P10 DATEBOOK P26 MEN OF MUSCLE P66 RESPECT THE OLD, CREATE THE NEW With these events, you'll never have to be Taking bodybuilding in Vietnam to the Japanese traditions are remade into Tokyo's bored again international level hottest trends P14 TROI OI P28 THE MELODEON PLAYER P70 A LOVE LETTER TO PHNOM PENH See why fire trucks and a record-setting cable car Is Vietnam ready for a rock accordionist? Our closest capital city deserves more than just a visa run project made our noteworthy numbers this month P30 THE RESTORATION LAB P92 INSIDE THE WORLD OF WORK P16 THE BULLETIN A place where rare and antique books get a new A new book reveals the working lives of everyday Checking out the latest promotions and openings lease on life Vietnamese P24 ONE MILLION+ P64 PEACEFUL MOMENTS A roundup of some of Vietnam's most successful Photographer Andre Paul showcases the quieter online startups side of Japan 6 7 WINE & DINE RESTAURANT REVIEWS Oi reviews the unique cabaret vibe of Bo Nong and the Mediterranean flavors of Saffron 44 COLUMNS P22 SAIGON MYTHBUSTERS P74 LIFE'S A TRIP P84 THE SYLLABUS What can and can't be mailed out of the country? Is an all-inclusive vacation for you? Keep calm and de-stress your toddler P73 POSTCARDS FROM VIETNAM P82 HIGHER LEARNING P95 LEGAL EASE A Gaudi-esque mythological sculpture in Hoi An How gender differences affect the educational Creating a will to benefit your family abroad experience 8 ISSUE NO. 11 Editor’s FEBRUARY 2014 Note All in the Family WHEN WE FIRST IMMIGRATED to In our Business section, James Pham takes America, my parents very much wanted to a look at a new book, It's a Living: Work keep their Vietnamese traditions alive. I was and Life in Vietnam Today, which offers a just a kid then, so the Western holidays of fascinating glimpse into the lives of everyday Thanksgiving and Christmas only meant Vietnamese. This article hit closer to home days off from school for my sisters and me. than I ever imagined. I've often wondered Throughout my childhood, it was Tet that what my life would've been like had my really had meaning, a wonderful explosion of parents not made the difficult decision to Vietnamese traditions that was Thanksgiving undertake that dangerous journey by boat and Christmas all rolled into one. I have to the US. While reading the article, I found memories of my mom spending days buying myself becoming the che seller or goldfish and preparing food for Tet, everything from peddler in a parallel world that could've been. scratch. There was pickled meat (wrapped in At 5 foot tall and 100 pounds, I'm more foil because she couldn’t get banana leaves), brains than brawn. This month, though,Oi glutinous rice cakes, sweet che, crispy shrimp brings readers both. For fellow bibliophiles, chips and specialties of Hue, passed down NPD Khanh takes us inside an antique book from her own mother. By 8pm on the evening restoration department here in HCMC, before Tet started, all six of my sisters and illustrated beautifully by Adam Robert I would help set the table placed in front of Young's gorgeous images of books yellowed our altar to ancestors and Buddha. My dad and stained by age being meticulously cared had a ritual of lighting three incense sticks for by the equally worn hands of age-old and bowing three times. I remember the craftsmen. For those who prefer brawn to torturous wait for those incense sticks to burn books, Khanh introduces us to Pham Van completely down before we were allowed to Mach, Vietnam's most famous bodybuilder, eat. I swear, those sticks seemed to be a mile showing us a lighter, more personal side to long! That's not to say we didn't sneak little the world of hard bodies. bites of food here and there when our parents Also this month, our country-hopping were distracted! travel guru James Pham writes about his Now that I'm here in Vietnam and my love / hate and back to love again affair with family are all back in NYC, I alternate Phnom Penh and his wacky adventures in between enjoying the few days of quiet Tokyo (where 3m samurai panda robots may bliss when the city empties out and jetting or may not be involved), providing us with off somewhere in the region where Tet isn't two destination options for those looking to celebrated. But wherever I am, Tet is still skip the city during Tet. inextricably linked to family in my mind. A Whether you're staying put for the time when the whole country stops for just holidays or traveling with family and a few days to take a collective breath and to friends, may the Year of the Horse be an simply reconnect with family and friends. auspicious one for you and yours. Chúc Our two cover stories this month revolve mừng năm mới! around the bittersweet topic of family, touchingly related by two Vietnamese- Americans who have come back to the country of their birth, unable to shake Vietnam's influence on their own lives and CHRISTINE VAN the lives of their families. Managing Editor 9 Datebook Fill up your calendar with these exciting events NOW UNTIL JANUARY 15 What: Silk of Light Exhibition Where: Phuong My Flagship Store, 81 Le Thanh Ton, D1 JANUARY 16 About: Silk of Light: Ngo Dinh Bao Chau opened at Phuong What: Canvas & Wine: Monet and The Impressionists My Flagship Store commemorating San Art Production’s second Where: VinSpace Garage, 95 Pasteur, D1; 6:30pm - 9pm collaboration with fashion designer Phuong My. San Art Productions, About: This will be a fun and creative class for everyone, no matter the very first program of its kind in Vietnam, aims to realize a long- what your painting level is. Start the night with a wine tasting session standing partnership between visual art and an external creative to uplift your creativity and confidence, and then enter the studio to organization where an open dialogue between two innovative forces learn how to paint. With the help of VinSpace Garage’s instructor and commissions new artistic projects. some images of paintings as a reference, you will enjoy painting like Silk of Light is a body of work inspired by light as both a physical the impressionists. and metaphorical medium. Bao Chau carefully studies the process Contact: Access www.vin-space.com or call 090 772 9846 of light as it covers, disperses and adjusts to the surface of different materials. The artist’s preoccupation with light arises from her deep interest in architecture, and its relationship to form, shape, line and structure. Based in Ho Chi Minh City, Bao Chau’s living environment is filled with manmade light and she is fascinated by its role in human forms of labor and urbanization. Contact: For more information, email [email protected] JANUARY 16 JANUARY 16 - 21 What: Ninth Annual Crystal Ball International Business Luncheon What: Encounter lecture with Associate Professor Thanes Where: New World Saigon Hotel, 76 Le Lai, D1; 11am – 2pm Wongyannava About: This will be CanCham's Ninth Annual Crystal Ball business Where: Hoa Sen University, 8 Nguyen Van Trang, D1 luncheon event.
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