Vietnam Charms – Hidden Gems in South East Asia
Discover destinations and activities that make your trips truly memorable.
Vietnam Charms – Hidden Gems in South East Asia
Discover destinations and activities that make your trips truly memorable.
My Son Vietnam is a world cultural heritage, the prize that UNESCO uses to recognize cultural value of the site. Mỹ Sơn is pronounced /mee suhn/, not /mai sʌn/ I’ve gone to the sanctuary in the fall 2013, together with my wife in a 3 days vacation in Da Nang and Quang Nam. It’s nearly 70 kilometers […]
Trung Nguyen coffee is among leading beverage brands in my country. As I know, the company was established in 1996, amusingly by a group of medical students. Just after a few years, they had a franchise network of more than 10,000 coffee shops in the country, and were also establishing several café outlets overseas. Now, […]
Have you heard that weasel coffee is a shit? Well, it literally is. In my mother tongue Vietnamese, it is Café Chồn or Café Cứt Chồn, which means weasel-dung coffee. It has another name: civet coffee, and really is a drink specialty that will make consumer to remember forever. High Prices I have to say that the authentic Café […]
Have you ever tasted Vietnamese iced coffee (cà phê sữa đá)? If not, just try a cup, you’ll feel a wonderful savor, which quite different from other popular flavored coffees like Hazelnut, Latte, Cappuccino, etc. How special? With condensed and high caffeine content, Vietnamese iced coffee has more authentic, subtle, and charming taste than instant coffee […]
Have you ever tasted or heard about Vietnamese coffee? It has unique flavor that will impress the most discerning drinker. Our coffee products are not so well-known like those of Brazil, Mexico, etc., not yet at least. We still lack of strong brand names like Starbuck, Nescafe, etc. to bring our national caffeine-rich products to […]
Do you know the habit of using disposable chopsticks destroys millions of trees each year? Yeah, that’s true, especially in my neighbor country China, which produces the most chopsticks in the world. In an article by Washington Post, it’s estimated that the nation of 1.4 billion population produce 80 billion of chopstick pairs a year. And it […]
Do you want to learn how to use chopsticks? Great, I’ll show you in this article. Upon knowing how to use our dining utensils, you can savor Vietnamese cuisines, understand further about our culture, and enjoy your trip to Vietnam. Frankly, at the time of writing this article, I have used the chopsticks over 30 years. […]
When people mention Vietnamese noodles, they may immediately think of “Pho”. It’s true that Pho is a very popular cuisine in the South East Asian country, yet, there’re still many other noodle soups here, including: bún, miến, hủ tiếu, mỳ… In Vietnam’s cities, you’re easy to buy a noodle soup: in restaurants, traditional markets, supermarkets, and […]
Vietnamese dipping sauce (nước chấm or mắm chấm) is an important element in our daily meals, especially going with traditional foods. There’re many types of dipping sauce to serve with different dishes. Therefore, if you going to a Vietnamese restaurant, you may see that one gourmand has as many as five to seven bowls of dipping sauces […]
Tasting Vietnamese fish sauce (nước mắm) is a must if you want to learn about my country’s cuisine. Many researchers consider fish sauce is a typical product of my nation. The Washington Post comments that “like wine in France and olive oil in Italy, fish sauce is the prized staple of Vietnam.” Can you believe […]
