Book excerpt: Hot salty pho isn’t all you’ll slurp in Vietnam. This whole S-shaped country is an underrated gay paradise! Vietnamese gay dudes are tight, slim, often English-speaking, and always hungry to meet foreigners. As for the Vietnamese heteros? They are remarkably accepting of us gay folk. Vietnam is just as gay-friendly as Thailand, if not more so. And unlike Thailand, Vietnam is happy to welcome visitors. Prices in Vietnam — for hotels, meals, drinks, rides, or guys — are a fraction of those in Thailand. Get ready for midrange hotel rooms for $25 and fancy cocktails for $4. Every Vietnamese city is full of gay life: cafes, bars, hangouts, drag shows, saunas, and of course eager men. Unfortunately, Vietnamese gay life isn’t flamboyant. Vietnam won’t dangle its gayness in your face. In Vietnam, you have to know what you’re looking for, and how to find it. That’s what this book is for. It’s all of gay Vietnam, at its gay best, including hotels, bars, saunas, and of course, ports of call for those who love to cruise! There’s the serious stuff too: where to get PrEP and how to avoid Vietnam’s common Grindr scams. Oh, just buy this book for a good time and prance on over to Pride Cafe already! Bradley Chetworth is a Fortune 500 executive who regularly travels Asia for business, and a whole lot of pleasure.