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…
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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…
Among Asian cooking techniques, “braise” (“tiềm” or “tần” according to a Northern dialect), is one of the familiar cooking processes that is intended for nutritious dishes. In the old days, cooks liked to put all the precious ingredients into…
Do Tan Da’s poems, the lotus flower, and the duck have anything in common? These three seemingly unrelated things were the main elements that brought forth a miraculous dish cooked by Chef Nguyen Van Bong, who is used to…
Turmeric in Latin etymology means “earth with value”, and is a plant of the ginger family. It has a number of uses: the turmeric color is used for food coloring as well as for dying materials; the turmeric root…
In Vietnamese culture, the family meal is always something holy. It is not only a place for reunion, but also a moment for connection, sharing, warmth that everyone saves for each other. Whoever travels away from home will miss…
“Skewer grill” is one of the most easily-processed dishes. But the simpler the dish is, the more difficult it is to create. Chef Nguyen Van Bong, who began as a cook at fifteen years old, confidently entered the Golden…
There are three interesting facts about artichokes, a perennial plant that can be used from the root to the top as food and medicine. The first one is its legendary origin: it originated in the Mediterranean and the ancient…