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An hour from Hanoi, Dong Ho village has been carving woodblock prints for centuries. Here is what the craft actually involves and how to visit without wasting the trip.
Gift-giving in Vietnam has its own unwritten rules — get them right and you build real goodwill. Get them wrong and you won't even know it.
Showing up empty-handed is fine in some cultures. In Vietnam, it isn't. Here's what to bring, what to skip, and how to hand it over without causing awkward silences.
Tet shuts down half the country — but plan around it right and you get flower markets, empty beaches, and pagodas full of incense smoke and zero tour groups.
The round white rice cake that pairs with banh chung in Vietnam's founding myth — a guide to what banh giay actually is, how it's made, and where to eat it.
Floating mung-bean dumplings in ginger syrup with a pour of coconut cream — che troi nuoc is one of Vietnam's oldest desserts and still one of its best.
Ha Nam's Lang Vu Dai has spent centuries perfecting a single dish: fish slow-cooked in clay pots over rice husks until the bones dissolve. Here's what makes it worth seeking out.
From sticky rice cakes to candied ginger, here is what actually ends up on the table during Tet — and why each dish matters.
Pyramid-shaped sticky-rice dumplings with mung bean or pork filling — banh it is one of Vietnam's oldest ritual foods, still eaten daily across the country.
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