Cu Da Village: Hanoi's Forgotten Soy-Sauce Makers
Thirty kilometers from Hanoi's Old Quarter, Cu Da village still ferments soy sauce in open-air clay vats — a craft that once supplied the whole region and now barely survives.
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Thirty kilometers from Hanoi's Old Quarter, Cu Da village still ferments soy sauce in open-air clay vats — a craft that once supplied the whole region and now barely survives.
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