 Hey guys, I am Shachi and welcome back to my channel. So today's video is going to be what I eat in a day when I travel video. And this video is for everyone who loves to travel but who also wants to take care of their health. Just woken up, it's about 7.30 in the morning and the agenda for today is basically to do the local sightseeing in Ho Chi Minh city and also of course to try the local food. First thing that I like doing when I wake up in the morning is to have some warm water with lemon. This is especially good for your stomach when you are eating out a lot like you would do on a holiday. So to make sure that I drink it every day, I actually carried some lemon with me from India. Yeah, I did that and I'm just going to make my warm water with lemon now. Next meal of the day is breakfast and when we are traveling, I like having a very light and simple breakfast. Usually it will be fruits and that's because breakfast is probably the only meat where it's guaranteed that I can eat something in the hotel or in the house before I step out. So I like keeping it really simple but at the same time nutritious. So by making sure that I have fruits first thing in the morning, not only do you get your dose of the important minerals and fiber but you also make sure that you are eating something healthy first thing in the morning. So we've been here for about almost four days now and I've actually run out of fruits and yogurt. So today morning I'm going to now go to the grocery store nearby and pick up some fruits and maybe some yogurt as well. I just got back from the supermarket and I have my bag of groceries here. So I'm just going to quickly show you what are the things I got. Here is my breakfast, banana, mango and some yogurt. Lunch to Ngonvilla and in Vietnam you might have a little problem finding vegetarian food. So remember the word chai, chai actually means vegetarian so if you want to communicate to someone that you need veg food maybe telling them chai that C-H-A-Y might do the trick. So this is our lunch, this is the fried rice, this is pumpkin flower, sauteed and the vegetarian spring roll and helping me set up and keep pictures as Aditi. And of course we have our coffee and jasmine. Now whenever you order coffee they also give you a glass of jasmine tea and I learnt about this yesterday. So the concept is since coffee increases your heartbeat and it kind of makes you more jittery to balance it out they give you this jasmine tea and you're supposed to have it together separate side by side because they believe in balance. Today I am going all the local sites seeing. So there are about three to four things that are worth seeing in Ho Chi Minh city and the first thing that I am going to see is the Saigon central post office. So this post office was actually built during the French time when Vietnam was a French colony and this is the post office behind me and the reason why this is so popular is because it's a very grand looking building for a post office and lot of people come here just to take a look. It's still a functioning post office so if you want you can in fact post a letter for somebody back home and yeah so we are going to check out the post office and also opposite the post office is the cathedral again from the French time so these are the two things that we are going to check out first. Actually send a letter back home so get a postcard, put the stamps and you can send a letter back home. Very close to the post office and the cathedral is this really pretty street which is known as the book street in Ho Chi Minh. So this is a street which is full of book stores and also cafes. So if you come to these two places make sure that you come here as well. If you are really into books you can pick up books there. What books did you pick up? I picked up Vietnamese folk tales for kids. Storybooks for children and especially Vietnamese stories like the paddy fields and the king and queen and something to take back from Vietnam. I think that's something unique that you can take back from here and also there are a lot of cafes which we plan to set for sometime because oh my god this heat is exhausting and one thing I really like about this street are the trees. So it's totally covered. We've been walking around for about 3-4 hours and it's really hot so we just came to McDonald's now to get something to drink so I'll probably have a coke. I know it's not very healthy for me but it's so hot and I just want to have something cold and yeah I just feel like having a coke today so I'm going to go get that. So next stop for today is the war remnants museum in Ho Chi Minh city and this is a museum where they have documented the entire US-Vietnam war and they have actually shown the effects of this war on the locals and how it affected the people of Vietnam. Now we are in District 1 and we just stopped to get some milk tea at one of my favourite milk tea places, Khoi. I was actually quite surprised to see Khoi in Vietnam. I thought it was going to be a Singapore brand but yeah so that's what I'm having right now. This is caramel milk tea. It's shops on getting a tea block tea and yeah get something to eat or drink. There are a lot of street vendors here. We just narrowly got paid from that water fountain. We were standing right there and those water stairs just suddenly went down. I just got back to the apartment and today was an entire day of walking around the city and exploring the local attractions in Ho Chi Minh. Not really hungry to have a full dinner and I still have some of the milk tea left so I'm just sipping on the milk tea and munching on some makhanas that I got from home and I think that would do for the last meal of the day. That's what happens when you travel. I try and eat when I'm hungry and if I'm not really hungry then I just have something really light and you know call it a day. So thank you so much for watching. I hope you enjoyed this vlog style video where I try to combine what I eat in a day with showing you a little bit of the city and if you like this do let me know in the comment section below and also please give this video a thumbs up and before you go don't forget to subscribe and hit the bell icon. I'll see you next week. signing off for now.