Vietnam's kids sing for their supper

Ho Chi Minh City is known for its street vendors. Hawkers with pushcarts or simple shoulder poles travel from street to street selling roast chestnuts or mangoes or noodle soup.
But here it's not only food that comes to you -- music does too.
In many parts of the city formerly known as Saigon, especially in the poorer, traditionally blue-collar areas like Districts 4 or 8, "xe keo-keo" are a common sight.
Young men, either in pairs or alone, pull up in front of restaurants and fire up the basic karaoke machines that are strapped to rickety old bikes, then sing, roaming tables to sell cheap peanut candy for about VND 3,000 a stick.
?I like this job, my brother showed me how to do it,? says one who didn?t want to give his name.

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