Phan Thiet was originally developed as a fishing community.…
Seafood
Legend has it that catfish is the largest freshwater species of the fish family. There was a time when people caught a catfish weighing up to one hundred kilos. It is this fish living in the streams and rivers…
Among the types of “smelly” spices, fermented bean curd is the one causing much controversy. Some praise, some disregard it. It is so debatable that some people called this type of fermented bean curd “Asian cheese” since it has…
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…
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…