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Food in Vietnam: 40 delicious dishes you’ll love
Vietnamese cuisine doesn’t win any points for complexity. Many of the most popular dishes can be made just as well on the side of the road as in a top-end restaurant. But it’s precisely this simplicity, the subtle variations by region and the fresh ingredients, that keep us pulling up a plastic stool for more.…
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Eat Well, Spend Less: 5 Ways to Make Food More Fun For Kids
1. Focus on Color. Not only are bright, colorful foods naturally more appealing to children, but they’re also better for them. Eating a rainbow a day will help your child’s body get the wide variety of nutrients that it needs to grow strong and healthy. And it’s fun. rainbow fruits Make a game out of…
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This is the season for tasty chestnuts
This is the season for tasty chestnuts Yummy: Chestnuts stewed with pork leg is often prepared to welcome visitors. Trùng Khánh chestnuts are one of the nation’s tastiest and meatiest fruits. They have won a following among locals and foreigners. The trees have existed in Trùng Khánh District, about 62km from Cao Bằng City, for…
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Bánh giầy cakes, ancient symbols of gratitude
Bánh giầy cakes, ancient symbols of gratitude Simple: The white, “chubby” cakes, which are packed neatly in either green dong (Phrynium placentarium) leaves or banana leaves, are often served on special occasions, including the Lunar New Year. VNS Photo Trương Vị Been to a Vietnamese wedding banquet? If so, you must have tried bánh giầy, a…
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Smaller, tastier, healthier: the Vân Đình duck
Smaller, tastier, healthier: the Vân Đình duck Stirring up the pot: Boiled duck is cut into pieces and placed on top of the porridge, before adding the sauce and stirring it well. Industrial livestock and poultry can never compare to their ’free range’ counterparts, especially in terms of taste. I realised this fact anew recently…
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Festival honours buckwheat flowers
Festival honours buckwheat flowers Joyous: Local children play in a sea of buckwheat flowers. — VNS Photo Trương Vị HÀ GIANG — An annual festival to honour the buckwheat flowers, the most iconic flowers of the northern province of Hà Giang, and the unique cultural values of the province’s local ethnic people is happening now…
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