XX AmiCigar Vietnam Ho Chi Minh Event - Part 2
Thorsten Ebers
7 Mayo 2026
The event "officially" started with an early birds dinner at the 22nd April at the restaurant Beirut. But before we come to that, let me tell you about the days before.
Sunday was doing my habitual routine described as in part one. In the afternoon I went to the HS. While I was sitting on my own enjoying my second stick I saw a small group of aficionados that looked like they the came as well for the event of AmiCigars. As I was there for my first time for the event I went to them and asked if they here for AmiCigars like myself. They were and I introduced myself and I joined them smoking. There I met Reza, Massi and their wifes. Later on, our group dissolved and I went to LCDH after I finished my stick. There again I met Reza,Massi and their wifes. We all smoked more Cuban cigars. Then Sammy and Daria, the people behind of LCDH and HS came along. After a while of small talk Sammy ordered food for all of us. The food was super delicious.
On Monday I met in LCDH in the evening Dan, Alan and Jonathan. Guys from the USA. We had nice conversations and I handed out Sancho Panza Non Plus, aged 8 years, to them. Jonathan gave me back a nice farm rolled Cuban wrapped in newspaper paper, now acclimates in my Humidor. I had my smoke on the third floor in LCDH which houses a restaurant with live music in the evening hours. Jessica, a cuban singer, entertaining us with live singing. Later on the evening Gino arrived smoked a stick and before leaving told us that we can can do our registration next day at 14:00 in LCDH and pick up our welcome pack. That officially would be Thursday 23th April. Normally the LCDH close at Midnight, but with people from AmiCigar they closed much much later. They had a lot of over hours due to us AmiCigar crowd the whole days. We owe them many thanks for that. Overall the employees did a superb job.
Left to right: Alan, Dan, Jonathan
On Tuesday I arrived shortly after 14:00 for the registration. We received a blue AmiCigar backpack which contained a blue polo shirt and if you gone for further polo shirts (white and yellow ones) they were in there as well. You had the option to order these when you received the invitation for this event. Furthermore it contained a passport, an AmiCigar pin, a sticker for the fridge, a brochure which had nice locations to go for shopping and food, a schedule for the for the events we will have. We received also another bag which contained a coffee set(pour over device and 1,5 kg of coffee and a glass of Vietnamese cashew nuts. Then we received our first Habanos , an H.Upmann Magnum 46 if we showed them the AmiCigar Passport, first stamp in it for the cigar. I went up to the Lounge and fired up the stick. Order my coffee with milk and sparkling water. There we already a lot of people for the event. Later in After that I went to one of the location in the brochure for having my dinner and went back to LCDH for my last stick for the day, gone to the third level enjoying the live music. After that I went home.
Wednesday was the day we had the Early Birds Dinner at restaurant Beirut. The restaurant was fully booked for us. my estimated guess was that we were between 60 to 80 people already. There were live music and two 2 Vietnamese belly dancers, belly dance was sexy as hell. Food was delicious as well. I smoked a RyJ Cazadores and later on, some stuff members of LCDH and HS gone around and offered us sticks to choose from Nicaragua. The sticks were from the brand of Sammy's brother. In the middle of the evening Gino took the mic and welcomed us and revealed that Sammy has invited us all. Words cannot describe the generosity of Sammy and Daria. Later busses drove us back to the city.
The Cigars from Sammy's Brother
The live music
One of the belly dancers. Hauke seems well entertained :-)
Left to right : Miss Unknown (She never told me her name, I have it but I told her I will call her allways Miss Unknown), Gino, Sammy and Daria
Some food pictures to get you hungry
Stay tuned for part three
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