EMPIRE MUSIC | QUÁN BAR QUẬN 1 — Restaurant in Ho Chi Minh City

Warning to tourists - this place is a trap and a badly concealed one at that. Arrived here one night with 3 other backpackers, and they followed one of us to the toilet, even offering to assist him with cleaning himself up!

Meanwhile in the main dancefloor area, we were trying to buy drinks but we weren't able to just buy a standalone beer or cocktail. Apparently you had to buy a whole package. Everybody else in the club was watching us as we were making sense of the situation or even laughing at us.

We weren't offended, but it confirmed to us that these people weren't "real" customers but props or plants who were in on the whole thing to. We ended up having the last laugh anyway as we promptly left.

I've heard Saigon can be known to be a bit scammy, so whilst this didn't come as any real surprise (especially given how tacky/flashy the club looks like on the outside), it was shocking how obvious they were in this instance and how they didn't think they were being...

Terrible Experience – Felt Like a Scam

I went to this club with a few friends expecting a fun night out. Everything seemed fine at first, but things took a turn when we asked for the bill. We had ordered just three whiskies and were ready to spend and enjoy ourselves, but we were shocked to see a total bill of 21 million VND.

What stood out was that they charged us for 21 bottles of mineral water, amounting to over 3 million VND — something we definitely did not order. At no point were we asked if we wanted more water, and we certainly didn’t notice them serving us that many bottles. It felt like they were trying to pad the bill without our knowledge.

This kind of practice is unacceptable and feels like a scam. We paid and left, but we want to warn others: be extremely careful with your order, especially with mixers and how they’re billed. Strongly discourage anyone from...

People wait on you pretty intensively here, but lookout for upselling/tip expectations for the smallest things (like giving you a towel in the bathroom). They do offer shisha which is cool. Table service wasn’t cheap.

Vibes are not really for me however because people mostly sit around and barely dance (not that there’s a good dancing area/floor anyway). If you want to come here to spend time with girls sure, but don’t expect to dance or mingle easily (except neighboring tables I guess) because it’s not really a “western” club type of format.

Gets much more interesting and crowded after like 10-11pm and dancers come on stage. All things considered very cool fx and decent DJing, but again wasn’t really...