Deep Fried Bean Curd Skin with Baby Cabbage

Discover a crispy, fresh and juicy dish with recipes from Chef Ming of Crystal Jade Palace Restaurant. You can also learn how to cook some other tempting dishes as Chef Ming hosts a complimentary cooking class every Saturday this November.

May Taste, high up on the Umami scale

With a seemingly invulnerable five-star rating and so many rapturous evaluations, you might arrive at May Taste expecting to find a Michelin-starred chef at the helm of an elaborately decorated restaurant where the sommeliers outnumber the customers two-to-one. Fortunately, this couldn’t be further from the truth.

Architecture in the service of imperial poetry

Emperors of the Nguyen Dynasty were gifted and passionate poets. In addition to books, they showcased their works on the walls and rooftops of imperial palaces and temples. Phước Bửu reports.

Imagining Ludwig van Beethoven in Hà Nội

What do an 11-year-old Ha Noi resident and Danish composer Friedrich Kuhlau have in common? Just one thing. This week, Lu Thuc Nhu Anh played the first movement of a piano sonatina the German-born composer wrote 200 years ago, at the Vietnam National Academy of Music.

French diplomat juggles work and family

Since arriving in Việt Nam in 2013 to head the Technical and Culture Co-operation Department at the French Embassy in Hà Nội, Eva Nguyễn Bình has dedicated her efforts to boosting the cultural exchange between the two countries. The energetic French woman talks with Thúy Hằng about her passion for work, as well as her struggle to maintain a balance between work, family life and her duties as the wife of the French ambassador, Jean-Noël Poirier.

 

Volunteers fix roads one pothole at a time

Tân Lộc Islet residents don't wait around for things to get done. Instead, they take to the streets to repair infrastructure on their own. Tuấn Quang and Thu Hương report.

The healing power of Viet Nam’s farmers

Farmers nationwide have improved their lives considerably by cultivating medicinal herbs, but over exploitation threatens their extinction. Despite the country's tremendous potential as a grower and producer of herbal medicine, it has gone from being an exporter to an importer of medicinal materials. Viết Tôn and Bạch Liên reports.

A girl with a journey to change colour of medals

Nguyễn Thị Lụa, the No 5 female wrestler in the 48kg category at the 2009 World Wrestling Championships, has made history by becoming the first Vietnamese female wrestler to qualify for the Olympics twice in different categories after she reached the finals of the Asian qualifying event in Astana, Kazakhstan.

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