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Food & Drink
Ruou Can: The Communal Rice Wine You Drink Through a Bamboo Straw
Ruou can is the fermented rice wine of Vietnam's highland peoples — shared from a clay jar through long bamboo straws, and closer to a ritual than a drink.
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Food & Drink
Ruou Nep: Vietnam's Sticky-Rice Wine, From Festival Ritual to Everyday Jar
Fermented glutinous rice wine — ruou nep — is central to the Doan Ngo festival and quietly present at tables across Vietnam year-round. Here's what it is, how it's made, and where to find it.
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Food & Drink
What's in the Glass at a Vietnamese Wedding Feast
From cheap beer to rice wine toasts with the elders, here's what actually gets poured at a Vietnamese wedding — and how to drink without embarrassing yourself.
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Food & Drink
Drinks at Tet: What Gets Poured at the Holiday Table
From rice wine to sugarcane juice, the drinks at a Vietnamese Tet gathering follow their own unspoken rules. Here's what's actually in the glass.
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Food & Drink
Snake Wine and Vietnam's Curio Wines: Tradition, Tourism, and What's Actually in the Jar
Snake wine is real, it's old, and it's not just a tourist trap — but a lot of what gets sold to visitors is. Here's how to tell the difference.
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Food & Drink
Vietnamese Rice Wine and Ruou: A Beginner's Guide to the Strong Stuff
Ruou isn't just alcohol—it's ritual. Learn the difference between rice spirits, fermented wines, and communal jar drinking, plus the etiquette that keeps you invited back.
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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.
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