GA TAN Ga Tan, stewed sweet herbal chicken soup, is a Hanoi specialty and a deeply-guarded traditional recipe incorporating a special mixture of secret herbs and spices handed down from parent to child over generations. The result is a quarter of chicken bobbing in a tasty broth, which is believed to be something akin to a … Read more
Bun Cha This is a great vietnamese noodle dish that’s light and just packed with flavor. It’s like a salad with a delicious dipping sauce, or dressing, and it’s so easy to put together too. It is hard to find someone with greater knowledge of food and culture in Hanoi than writer Thach Lam. In his famous … Read more
Sapa and Ha Giang was amazingly beautiful and endlessly fascinating because of the children I met while traveling there. No matter how rugged and remote, there were always one or two children around either playing or going about their everyday activities without a care in the world.
Vietnamese tea farmers pick leaves in a verdant field in central Vietnam’s mountainous highland region. A little background on the journey of your tea leaf - from plant to pot - might just make the significance of your next cup of tea a little more remarkable. Images by Ngoc Tran
If you’ve been to any of the country’s wet markets you would have seen (and smelled) them - dried and flattened whole fish that could pass for cardboard cutouts, slabs of salted fish fillets so hard and stiff they could be used as a weapon. This month we traveled to the seaside town of Vung … Read more
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