(01-08-2015 01:15 AM)JayJuanGee Wrote: (01-07-2015 10:54 PM)Satoshi Wrote: Is it really true that they have dancefloors in the clubs in Vietnam??
Surely, some questions concerning dance floors in vietnam is going to be an object of my curiosity during my upcoming January / February travels to Vietnam... at least in terms of salsa dance floors.. currently, I am NOT as much interested in any other kinds of dance.
Besides doing some google searches, I have NOT done too much further internet research into the salsa dance scene matter in vietnam, but some guys here may understand from some of my other posts that salsa dancing has been an ongoing hobby for me, and a friend of mine (who is a salsa dancer and is currently in HCM City) told me that he has found several salsa dance clubs in HCM City. I am going to attempt to grill him one more time regarding specifics to the extent that I can get his further cooperation in providing some information, possibly regarding names of places on his list.
My girlfriend (and my travel companion), who is vietnamese, was of the impression that there were NOT salsa dance clubs in Vietnam, and so she was surprised about my friend's report of his salsa dance experiences in HCM city, but what the fuck does she know, she was a teenager when she left vietnam and she lived in some rinky dink parts, and she has NOT visited the country for more than 15 years. further she relies upon vietnam information from her conservative family and relatives regarding various matters that she tells me and regarding what she expects during our visit, including that she keeps telling me regarding how expensive various things are.... wtf???? hahahaha
My GF is excited and wants to check out the salsa dance scene in the cities of our travel, to the extent that we are going to have time outside of our touring package matters that we have already booked. Our cities include at least, HCM, Hanoi, Ha Long, Bai Dinh, Hue, Quang Bing, Dan Nang and Hoi An, and maybe there will be difficulties to check out any of the club scenes very thoroughly. I am a little bit worried about bringing my GF to the salsa clubs (like bringing sand to the beach); however, during this specific trip, I expect that I am merely engaging in reconnaissance while in the presence of my GF because I do NOT expect to be able to sneak any quickies with any locals while she is around.. but I may be able to get a feel for whether locals are receptive to me talking with them and the level in which English can be useful with the girls in the various cities...
Just to make a quick follow-up on this point regarding salsa dancing in Vietnam, I did go to Vietnam, and I posted a bit of a summary
here.
Even though I batted around the idea with my GF regarding how many nights we were going to attempt to go to salsa clubs, she was playing a little passive aggressive, and in the end, we only went to one salsa club in HCM city on a Saturday night. It was called La Salsa.
When we go salsa dancing in the USA (specifically Los Angeles area), my GF is butt crazy about dancing, and she frequently does NOT want to leave until close to the last song is played and to dance every song. After a few hours of dancing in LA, I get anxious, and I just want to insert my parts into my GF's parts and I am tired of dancing. Therefore I want to leave before I am totally exhausted from dancing.
While in Vietnam, on the other hand, while at La Salsa, I danced with my GF a few songs, and then she said that I should dance with the other girls and have fun. Well, I knew that I would NOT be able to have fun with her watching; however, I did want to try out dancing with the other girls, just to get a sense for their dancing level and their interactions with me.
When I danced with these various vietnamese girls, they kept looking over at my girlfriend, who was just sitting there and NOT dancing with anyone, so the dynamic was a bit off. I would dance 4 or 5 songs, and then check in on my GF, and then I would dance another 4 or 5 songs and check in again. There were only about 20 girls in the whole place, and I danced with all of them, and towards the end of the evening (after a couple of hours) when my GF said "go dance with other girls," I said that I did NOT want to go dance with other girls because I had danced with every single girl in the place, and I had enough.
Actually, I probably did NOT have enough dancing with the various Vietnamese girls because several of the girls were very sweet, attractive and excited to dance with me and seemed willing to speak in English, but I knew with my GF there, I would NOT really be able to interact with the girls on any deep or personal level without being punished by my GF for several days. I figured that it was NOT worth any kind of punishment to attempt to interact with the various local girls, even though if my GF had NOT been present, I would have likely pursued at least one or two of the girls to either leave with them or attempted to set something up for the next day.
Another aspect of the salsa club that i want to mention is that it was one of the only places during my trip (and in a non touristy area) that I saw a pretty high proportion of western guys. More than half of the guys in the place were westerners of one sort or another and the girls seemed to interact pretty well with westerners in that environment. It is my sense that vietnamese girls get into the salsa scene in part because they would like to meet western guys.