Hundreds of years ago, the Vietnamese, who reclaimed land along the Cuu Long River, created outstanding dishes thanks to the wonderful cooking skills of the Vietnamese women. Pomelo Che is one of those miraculous dishes because the pomelo pith,…
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Coming into existence on Earth at least as far back as the year 7,000 BC, according to an archaeological site in Mexico, the pumpkin has moved through various places in the world with different cultures, myths and tales. Despite…
The inhabitants in the region (of An Giang Province) recount that in order to yield fruit and juice, it takes 40 years for the palmyra tree to grow; still the figure comes up to 100 years if we want…
Since the very old days, our ancestors have given us some cooking advice: never process snake meat on a tamarind cutting board because this may create poison. Nowadays, there are long lists of the ingredients that should not be…
Golden syrup dumplings (Chè trôi nước) or floating dumplings (bánh trôi)/ veggie dumpling (bánh chay) in Ho Xuan Huong’s poem are two dishes with close similarity in the processing methods and names, yet each bears a different meaning. If…
Hanoi in autumn is the most beautiful in the whole year. It is also the time when the glutinous rice fields start turning buds to paddy. Young rice still excreting milk while being nail-pressed, under mothers’ and sisters’ hands,…