Money

Arrgghhh, it doesn’t help when you are a bit dyslexic with numbers to have to be dealing in the thousands every time you buy something…

Vietnam’s currency is the dong and while you can pay in dollars if you wish, most things are quoted in the local currency. Currently there is around 30,000 dong to the pound and speaking as someone for whom it took a long time to get their head around 2,000 Korean won to the pound and thus being a millionaire every payday, the addition of extra zeros is very difficult. Fortunately the 3X table is an easy one but it still takes a while to process that paying 100,000 in a restaurant is really only around £3 and so there’s no need to gulp in horror at the expense of it all….

The other cool thing is that, like Australia, the newer higher denomination notes here are made of plastic, so a thumbs up for the recycling aspect!

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