Etesia is a kitchen counter dining restaurant serving contemporary European cuisine with chefs at work in their fully open kitchen. Countertop dining has been heating up the restaurant scene in big metropolitan cities. It’s the place to see — the kitchen, the chefs and the action — and to be seen. Their executive Chef Benjamin Morelle had experience serving as Sous Chef at a 1-star Michelin restaurant in Paris.
Phùng Văn Hùng’s money collection is bursting at the seams after 11 years, with more than a million different types of notes.
Dr. Lê Nguyên Phương, once a school psychologist in the US, has relocated back to Việt Nam to focus on the topic of mental health in families. Today he shares some insights into parenting with Vân Anh.
With colours as words and patterns as symbols, Chăm artisans in the Mekong Delta province have been passionately creating stories through weaving.
Ông Táo’s Kitchen introduces this recipe from Phan Anh, food blogger and founder and CEO of Esheep Kitchen and founder of YÊU BẾP, a Facebook community fanpage with 1.5 million members.
Hà My Yoga was founded by Lê Hà My, a yoga teacher that specialises in beginners. Currently, despite being based in Sweden, she continues to teach Vietnamese students yoga with her archive of videos. She also writes and shares a lot on using props to assist in yoga, and plans to publish a book soon.
French coach Guillaume Graechen, 43, has had a strong attachment to Vietnamese youth football since 2007 under the roof of Hoàng Anh Gia Lai (HAGL) Arsenal JMG Academy. Since then, he has experienced all the ups and downs in his training career. He is considered the symbol of HAGL youth football. He directly trained talented players in the first course of the academy such as Nguyễn Tuấn Anh, Nguyễn Công Phượng, Lương Xuân Trường and Nguyễn Văn Toàn, who are key players of the national team now.
HCM City has a great deal of historical value related to the wars of resistance against the French and Americans to offer interest to tourists as well as locals. One of the most fascinating destinations is Củ Chi guerrilla warfare tunnels, located about 70km from downtown HCM City.
The Lunar New Year (Tết) is time to gather family or friends and enjoy classic Vietnamese dishes made by moms in their hometowns. This year, however, the tradition changed because of the Covid-19 pandemic, so I decided to stay in the city with my children and have a special year-end meal at Bình Quới Village, about five km from the city centre.
The Huỳnh Long Tuồng Troupe, one of HCM City’s private theatres, is working to introduce young people to tuồng or hát bội (classical drama), a Vietnamese traditional theatre genre that originated in the 12th century.
Hưng Học traditional craft village of making fishing gear in Nam Hòa Ward, Quảng Yên Town, Quảng Ninh Province is hundreds of years old with famous durable and beautiful products made from bamboo, neohouzeaua from the old forests in the province.
With Chef Nguyễn Ngọc Quyên of Movenpick Hotel Hanoi
At any number of social and cultural events around Việt Nam, especially traditional festivals, drums feature as the centrepiece of almost all activities.
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The idea of giving seashells a second life first came to Trần Thị Ngọc Hiếu after she had a bloody experience one day on a beach, when a rather sharp shell pierced the skin on the sole of her foot.
Bếp Quán Restaurant doesn’t just serve a wide range of delicacies from Việt Nam’s three different regions but also offers a special craft beer brewed from buckwheat, a local plant from the northern province of Hà Giang. Ngô Minh discovers a menu of food and beverage delights.
For the first time ever, coaching in Việt Nam made a mark on the world map with national futsal coach Phạm Minh Giang being nominated as one of the 10 best futsal coaches in the world, joining Barcelona’s Andreu Alvarez. Given he ended 2020 with his club, Thái Sơn Nam futsal club, winning a treble - the Futsal HDBank National Championship, the National Futsal Cup, and the Ho Chi Minh City Open Futsal Tournament - few could disagree with the nomination. Việt Nam News had a quick chat with Giang about his inspirational journey.
Vietnamese lacquer painting, or sơn mài, has become a precious and unique artistic craft over the course of thousands of years. Its global reputation is to be fostered now the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism has officially approved a project on building and publicising a national brand for Vietnamese lacquer art by 2030.
With Executive Chef Nguyễn Ngọc Quyên from Mövenpick Hotel Hanoi
Most people in their 80s are retired and enjoying days of leisure with their family or pursuing interests and hobbies, but Huỳnh Thị Phương Liên, a professor and researcher at the National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology (NIHE),ý is still deeply involved in researching and recording materials for vaccinations.
Well-known flower villages in HCM City and Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta are ready to welcome visitors during Tết (Lunar New Year), which will fall on February 12.
