After about 10 days in Vietnam I began to get worried that i wasn't getting enough calcium; I can't remember the last time I had a solid glass of milk and so I decided to head over to My Chau Pharmacy, which was recommended by Let's Go Vietnam.
You see, Stefan's shop (www.stylespy.vn) is located on Hai Ba Trung, the 'fashion street' of Ho Chi Minh City. It is lined with stores selling shoes, jeans, dresses, and every other f=piece of clothing you could wish for. For some reason, near his shop there is a small strip of pharmacies selling what I assume are dodgy generic medications.
Still, I felt confident enough to try for some basic vitamins and minerals. I waltzed into My Chau and gave the clerk a small slip of paper with 'calcium' written on it. In return, he gave me a very small packet containing four pills and demanded 500,000 dong (about $28). That seemed distinctly odd to me. I looked at the package and realized he had given me Cialis, not calcium.
Strong bones, indeed.
2 comments:
Couldn't resist that last play on words, could you?
You can get a whole container of calcium containing multivitamins for a pretty low price.
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