PHNOM PENH, CAMBODIA 🇰🇭 GRAFFITI: AZEM & BRTC

8sep26

SAIGON, VIETNAM 🇻🇳 STREET ART: MUSEUM MAN

August 2026

SAIGON, VIETNAM 🇻🇳 STREET ART & GRAFFITI: LOLLIPOP 🍭

August 2026

SAIGON, VIETNAM 🇻🇳: STREET LEVEL

Blue plastic chair and a motorbike – the essence of Vietnam 🇻🇳
Daily writing at street-level
a decaying building at 5 Nam Quốc Cang, just a few blocks from the heart of old Saigon
leave a building alone for too long and graffiti will show up
Ho Chi Minh City College of Culture and Arts. The school itself dates back to 1975, when it was established after reunification as a vocational school for cultural and information workers. 
Chicken Pho & Braised Eggplant in Pepper Sauce with Rice – cà tím kho tiêu với cơm
Con Ốc Quán, 150/39 Nguyễn Trãi

August 2026

SAIGON, VIETNAM 🇻🇳 STREET ART: HIP HOP HELLO

3aug26

SAIGON, VIETNAM 🇻🇳 STREET ART: A TIDY CORNER, A CLEAN ALLEY

“Cầu Ông Lãnh – Góc Gọn Hẻm Sạch”

“Cầu Ông Lãnh – A Tidy Corner, a Clean Alley.”

July 2026

SAIGON, VIETNAM 🇻🇳 STREET ART: TRINH CONG SON

The writing is a famous verse by Trịnh Công Sơn, one of Vietnam’s most beloved songwriters.

Vietnamese:
Hạt bụi nào hóa kiếp thân tôi
Để một mai vươn hình hài lớn dậy
Ôi cát bụi tuyệt vời
Mặt trời soi một kiếp rong chơi

English translation:
Which speck of dust became my body,
So that one day it could grow into this human form.
Oh, wondrous dust,
The sun shines upon a lifetime of wandering.

This is a poetic meditation on life, mortality, and our return to dust. The verse reflects the idea that humans come from dust, live a brief, beautiful life, and eventually return to the earth. It is one of Trịnh Công Sơn’s most well-known philosophical themes.

July 2026

SAIGON, VIETNAM 🇻🇳: IF YOU HAVEN’T FOUND IT YET, KEEP LOOKING

The Saigon Vibe
Hot cupping, also called fire cupping, is an ancient healing practice used for thousands of years across Chinese, Middle Eastern, and Central Asian medicine. A practitioner briefly heats the air inside a glass cup with a flame, then places the cup on the skin. As the air cools, it creates suction that pulls the skin upward into the cup.
It relieves muscle tension, boosts circulation, and promotes relaxation. It’s popular with athletes; you may have seen the telltale circular marks on Olympic swimmers. The dark circles left behind aren’t bruises from injury but marks from the suction drawing blood to the surface, and they typically fade within a week or two.
Coffee and Book Time
Cash is king on the streets
No rest for the weary
Street stand life
Bike “rack”
If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking
Delivery time
Transport
Snacks are available on the streets 24/7

July 2026

SAIGON, VIETNAM 🇻🇳 STREET ART: PROPAGANDA

July 2026

SAIGON, VIETNAM 🇻🇳 STREET ART: 🌳 🦋

July 2026