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Close-up of delicious Vietnamese Banh Mi sandwiches with fresh vegetables on a table.
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Food & Drink

Lon Quay: A Complete Guide to History, Variants, and How to Order

Lon quay is northern Vietnam's roasted suckling pig — a ceremonial centerpiece at weddings and festivals that most tourists never encounter. Here's everything you need to know.

May 26, 20265 min readall
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Food & Drink

Banh Chung Gu and the Ancestral Table of Phu Tho

Phu Tho's sticky rice cakes and ancestral festival dishes are some of northern Vietnam's most quietly compelling food traditions — rooted in ritual, rarely discussed outside the province.

May 26, 20265 min readnorth
Savor a classic Vietnamese Banh Mi with a refreshing beer in Hanoi, Vietnam.
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Food & Drink

Com Dep Tra Vinh: the Flat Green Rice of Khmer New Year

Com dep is the Khmer-origin flat green rice made each harvest season in Tra Vinh — pounded young, eaten with coconut and banana, and tied to the Ok Om Bok festival.

May 15, 20264 min readsouth
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Food & Drink

Ruou Can: Vietnam's Communal Rice Wine Ritual

Ruou can is a fermented rice wine shared through cane tubes from a single earthenware jar—a ritual drink of Vietnam's ethnic minorities in the Central Highlands and Northwest, where hospitality and community are sipped together.

Mar 14, 20269 min readall
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