Literal Shadowrun character
A part of me has the urge to, after getting back, joke "Those American soldiers were a bunch of wimps. I had a great time in Vietnam and I didn't even bring a gun!"
I hope someday you'll get to live that dream too 
Anything vegan in the Nha Trang area, if you have it!
Funny you mention the DPRK, because it was interesting seeing the reactions of libs in my life to mentioning my travel plans. I'd say that out of all the AES states, Vietnam raises the fewest eyebrows if you're going to travel there (except maybe Laos because most libs don't even know that one is communist). It doesn't really get propagandized against in the same way e.g. China does, so it's much less of an uphill battle to convince them it's a decent place.
I wouldn't at all be opposed to visiting the DPRK but it would definitely freak out everyone I know if I actually planned a trip there, lol
Those are really cool!
Thanks for the suggestion! Unfortunately I'll be on the opposite side of the country, haha.
I'll get back to you on that after I finish the first 1799 Anno games
Real talk, I love seeing these sort of weird syncretisms of different cultures. Stuff like how the Fire Emblem series is classical European fantasy as interpreted through the lens of a game developer in Japan, a country whose early exposure to such works was largely Dungeons and Dragons.
It's just such a damn shame that the current imperialist world order largely turns such fusions into relations of appropriation and imposition. I can only hope I live to see the day the neocolonial order falls and cultures can interact on more equitable terms.