In Dong Nai Province there are lots of quarries which are thousands of years old. Vinh Cuu District, an area of this province, is famous for stone carving. A young chef has brought those thousands-of-years-old stones of this region…
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The story of the dish which has brought the one-billion-award to the champion of the 2013 Golden Spoon Awards is totally unbelievable because the team of InterContinental Hotel has never seen a whole sturgeon, which is a kind of…
The ancient Vietnamese myth is handed down that semilabeo notabilis was a fish that had existed in Vietnam since the year 2,000 BC. It was offered to King Hung. The King named this fish “Anh Vu”, and entitled it…
Liberia is a country in West Africa, whose name means “Land of the Free” in Latin. Its national flower is the pepper flower. The president of this country, who won the Nobel Peace Prize, has praised the beauty of…
The culinary expert Ms. Bui Thi Suong shared in a jury session of the Golden Spoon Awards 2013 that “The more we think about it, the more we admire our ancestors. They did not learn about micro-biology, or chemical…
It is when the first thunderstorms and drops of rain of the fifth lunar month come that the snails in the rice fields end their days of burrowing deep below the surface of the mud to avoid sunshine to…
One of the most typical symbols of Vietnamese culinary culture is a tray of traditional foods during Tet festival, first, to memorize our ancestors, and second, to attend the family reunion, enhance the family’s spirit specifically. And on that…
The Book of 100 Verses for Dishes, written by the lady-in-waiting Dang Thi Bich (maiden name Truong), one of the gentlewomen in the imperial palace of the old days, has been continuously handed down from generation to generation to…
Ha Long Bay, a world heritage site, is well-known not only for its particularly delicious seafood because of low salinity of the sea but also for another outstanding produce: Tien Yen’s hill chickens. This is a kind of chicken…
In the Oriental perspective, the ambience of the kitchen represents the prosperity of a house, not just a place for cooking. Since time immemorial, the kitchen is a fireplace of the whole family despite its small size. It is…