Welcome to…Tous Les Jours?

So, you know how anytime you walk into Moe’s, you’re greeted by someone calling out, “Welcome to Moe’s”?  (If not, they also apparently do it on their website, so you could click the link to get the idea.)  Cross Moe’s with Panera and you get Tous Les Jours, which describes itself as a “French Asian Bakery”.  They started out in Korea, but have multiple locations in Vietnam, and a couple in the US as well.  When you walk in, the entire staff calls out, “Tous Les Jours, Xin Chao!” or “Welcome Tous Les Jours!” 

It doesn’t hurt that they have a ton of delicious baked goods, for very little money.

We found Tous Les Jours while looking for another restaurant in the area that seems to have quadrupled its prices since its recommendation in Lonely Planet.  The original location we visited was a pretty decent walk from our hotel, so I wasn’t terribly worried about it becoming a major habit.  The next day we realized there’s one directly on our route to school…uh oh.

This is what we got on our first visit: a little mini-pizza, calzone, red bean doughnut, and hot dog in a really-fancy-bun.  Total: 42,000 dong (or $2.40).  Seriously?  Dangerous.

Best pig in a blanket I’ve ever had, hands down.

 

We’re headed to Bien Hoa early tomorrow morning to check out a job opportunity.  It’s about 45 minutes (I think) outside of Saigon, a smaller industrial city that caters to the manufacturing needs of a lot of big U.S.-based companies.  Wish us luck!  If it works out the job has a lot of perks, but I’ve been feeling really unsure of where we should be (geographically)…more about that later, I guess.  Hopefully it’ll be clear tomorrow whether it’s the right place for us or not.