As the Lunar New Year (Tet) approaches, the rhythms of spring reach even the farthest corners of the world - including a ...

Unusual developments in the market for banh chung and banh tet (traditional Vietnamese rice cakes) this Tet holiday. While ...

In the quiet darkness of An Lac village in Da Nang, the rhythmic “loc coc” of wooden molds begins at 2am - signaling not just ...

The Nguyen Du Lao-Vietnamese bilingual school gathered its students, Lao and Vietnamese like, for a traditional banh chung ...

For those of you too busy decorating hand-made Valentine's Day cards to notice, Lunar New Year is creeping up behind us like the stealthy tiger it is. This year the date falls smack dab on Feb. 14, ...

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Humble ingredients have been home-run fare for centuries, all around the globe, but it’s always extra fun when there’s a legend to go along with. With an origin story that dates to 14th-century ...

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Lunar New Year (aka Chinese New Year, Spring Festival or more accurately, Lunisolar New Year) started this week, observed in East Asian countries based on the Chinese or lunar calendar. The beginning ...

The rapid successive popping of hundreds of firecrackers rings out, smoke fills the air and drums and cymbals build in a euphonic rhythm as lions and Buddhas dance energetically down the sidewalk and ...