It's a nice day, not too hot, today I'm going pop out
and take you with me, I'm going to get a
haircut, get a haircut and a bit of a
shave. Freshen up, haven't had one for a
little while, thought we might as well try a
haircut in Hanoi. Always busy out...there's the
trouble, those taxi's. They are the only real
menace in Hanoi, they drive crazy, they're
always on the edge of an accident,
overly honking their horns. Anyway I'm
going to pop down this street
I'm not sure of the name, I'll see if I can see a name.
Now it's quite a famous street for food
actually but I've been told there's good
hairdressers down here as well.
One hundred and fifty thousand Vietnamese Dong
OK that's expensive.
So the only thing is it's probably a little
bit touristic and the prices are not
much different than they are back home
to be honest. So let's see if we can suss this
out.
Oh man, look at the fruit here, we've got the .... these mangoes are
so sweet.
beautiful sweet fresh mangoes, got the
the local oranges, these common more
darker oranges but they're quite... quite
orange inside they're not actually...
although they're green, they're really
orange, quite sweet. How are you? Doing a
good job eh.
good shoes eh. shoe shine.....You can't shine these.Wow there's a
queue here, it must be good Now what is
everybody queuing for
Ah queuing for the Pho, so this is obviously
popular because everybody .....everybody's
queueing for that Pho. Wow it's a busy street.
Some of the stores they don't like
being filmed, so they get a little bit upset
a little bit tetchy. So I have left
that street, actually there are three
hairdressers down the street
two of them were exclusively ladies cuts
and the first one I got to had only US
dollars up and thats a no-no for me, If they're
if there's pricing in US dollars they're
not doing local haircuts and the prices
in that place were probably about two
two and a half times what you would pay
in Thailand for an equivalent haircut
I'm looking for something that's eh, that
the locals would use. I always like to
try the local barbers, if it ends up being
touristic you're just going to get a
regular buzz cut for three times the
price.
So I'm now out by the lake, I hope the wind
is not creating too much distortion on
the sound. So we've got the.....
this is obviously where all those little
electric scooters go off from, the
tourists always in the old town on these
electric sort of golf buggy or tour buggy.
Right got to find a haircut onwards and
upwards. They're the donut ladies, there where not to buy donuts from I mean I'll
explain in another video on my channel
about sweet food in Hanoi or why those
donuts that have been out on the streets all
day long
probably baked or cooked many hours ago,
are not the ones to get
I'll also show you where you can get really
good fresh doughnuts the ones that the
locals do like to eat. So finding a haircut in
Hanoi is a lot harder than I thought
you've either got to go in the old
quarter and really get that Western
experience US dollar haircut or a lot
more difficult, obviously should have
done my research
No thank you how much? 50,000 Dong
not for me they're very nice I'm sorry
thank you okay
I found a place actually not a long way from the
first one I went to the with US
dollars, it's not super cheap but I
hope it's okay.
He's getting nice sides on the side beautiful
Tùng's my hairdresser
Thank you Tùng
Now I'm going upstairs, I'm not sure what for
okay hello
Is it okay? No problem OK let me take my sunglasses
Excuse me, she wants to know where you're from?
Australia, Melbourne. OK..... OK
Here we are..... say hello...... hello.....
so this is a strange position I've found myself in...... nice yeah
nice...... this is for shave?
Thank you.... okay
we've had a shave, all good
Okay so we got our hair cut
The guys done it really nice I think, what do
you think? So it's Hai Hair
It is here on 12 Gia Ngur street, just opposite
How are you?
good job, so he's singeing the
hair off you're taking the hair off?
It' duck?...Quack Quack...... Duck
So beautiful place is just opposite where I
had my ....where I had my haircut
I'm feeling good, feeling fresh, make sure
I've picked up everything, my wallet,
phone.
We're off, back to the hotel see Michele
then we're off out for something to eat.
So I hope you enjoyed that little look
around a haircut in Hanoi, different
places in the world I've had,
different parts of Asia you get
different haircuts, Obviously that's my
first Vietnamese haircut and it was good
good experience, hundred and fifty
thousand was apparently a little
expensive but it's around about seven or
eight dollars Australian so quite cheap compared to what we pay
back home. I'm told by the guy in
the hotel where we're staying that he paid about
forty thousand so it's higher but
when you're foreign in these places you
always going to have to pay a little bit
above the odds but it was a good
experience. So take care, share the love,
see you in the next video, be good