Hanoi....opening a new salon

After my long trip, I flew up to Hanoi again in June to prepare for the opening of our new corporate salon. We've had an office there for couple of years but never a salon. And since it was time to focus our efforts on the business in Hanoi, my auntie felt it was time to open a corporate salon to increase our brand awareness as well as build up our company reputation.

Here's how the salon looks like.....basically we converted a house and used the front for the salon and the back for the office and school...

Do you watch Discovery Travel & Living? If you do then you may know who Bobby Chin is...He hosts the food series Cafe Asia. He has a restaurant in Hanoi and we thought we should go try it to see how good his food was....

The decor was a little on the dark and romantic side....he also had an area that was for lounging and smoking Shishas.....here's a view from the side window....


His menus were kinda whacky....guess it reflects the owner's whackiness too!

Food was ok only....its Asian Fusion food.....but they said that it would be better if he cooked it himself....guess we were not so lucky....

Appetizer...forgot what it was...hehe....

Eggplant salad...it was cold.... :{

The mains were ok....we had salmon and beef...

Had better luck with food at the Japanese Restaurant called Sakura...

The Beef Sukiyaki was excellent I tell you! And they cook it from scratch in front of you....delicious!

After our salon officially opened, I headed back to Singapore....couldn't wait to back! On the way to the airport, I just snapped a couple of shots of the city....