Bia hoi.  Not to bang on about it, but I'm currently in Vietnam
having a truly great holiday and once again I've been struck by
how much Australians overcomplicate things ...  In Vietnam, the
line between a problem and its solution is absolutely straight,
not bent around government regulations and legalese or forced to
snake through thickets of political correctness and paternalism.
A case in point. The tiny bia hoi beside our hotel in Nha Trang
is run by a bloke in his 50s and serves jugs of shivering cold,
beautiful pale ale for one dollar.  You'll get five or six mugs
of beers from every jug - so you do the math on how much
Australian breweries rort us with the prices we pay for the
amber nectar in our country.  Anyway, if you want a takeaway,
old mate empties a jug full of beer into a plastic bag, ties it
off with a rubber band, then sticks it in a shopping bag with
some chunks of ice. Then he has his mate home deliver it to you
via moped for 25 cents.  Try pulling off that business idea in
Australia and