Việt Nam News

With Chef Nguyễn Kim Lan from Pan Pacific Hanoi

There is no limit for creativity and no disadvantage could prevent you from being creative - Triệu Hồng Hồ Em from Chợ Mới District in the southern province of An Giang is the typical example of that saying.

Studying in the UK, Nguyễn Ngọc Như Thảo had many opportunities to choose a job with a high salary. Thảo, however, decided to go to Africa to take part in wildlife protection programmes and returned to Việt Nam with many dreams. Việt Nam News talks with Thảo about her desire to protect wild animals and her future plans. 

An Lạc Vegetarian Restaurant is a genuine oasis for hungry vegan tummies, serving options from rice to noodles together with plant-based drinks.

Excellent Singer Lê Đại Năm, a Sán Dìu man in the northern province of Vĩnh Phúc’s Tam Đảo District, has vowed to “light a fire” among the young in his homeland to study, preserve, and promote the values of the minority’s origins.

Aficionados of Hà Nội who love and care about Việt Nam’s age-old architecture have been enthralled over the last week after hearing of a beautifully-preserved mansion in the capital’s Ngọc Hà Village.

Hội An local Võ Tấn Tân and his craftsmen created the Taboo Bamboo Workshop in the middle of the Cẩm Thanh nipa palm forest as a sustainable bamboo craft and preservation centre in the ancient town in central Việt Nam.

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.