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Booming Saigon, a city on the move, lays claim to a specialty that Vietnamese-American writer Monique Truong, author of “The Book of Salt” and the coming “Bitter in the Mouth,” calls “the ultimate on-the-go fare”: the extravagantly stuffed banh mi sandwich.
Saigon signature sandwich
David Hagerman for The Wall Street Journal
The most popular form is banh mi [...]
September 3rd, 2010 |
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A guest soaks in a flower bath at Zen Spa in Hanoi
“Spas” abound in Vietnam. It seems that every new resort has a room full of white beds that are touted its “spa.”
Few of them, however, succeed in awakening your body. A real spa experience ought to activate your five senses and rejuvenate you through [...]
Tour code: VNLXBT07
Series: Best of the Best Tours
Highlight: Hanoi – Sapa – Victoria Train – Ha Long Bay – Nha Trang – Ho Chi Minh
Vietnam is a country of brilliant green rice fields, bustling city streets, thatched bamboo huts, grand colonial buildings, exotic temples and pagodas, deserted sandy beaches and breathtaking mountain scenery.
Vietnam is a [...]
Thirty five years after the American War, I had an opportunity to travel on the old Ho Chi Minh Trail with some friends from Ha Noi. The scenery is breathtaking and the atmosphere is peaceful and poetic. This reminds me how beautiful the country is.
Transporting goods along Ho Chi Minh trail to a Southern war [...]
Ha Noi’s history stretches back nearly a thousand years when the city was founded by Emperor Ly Thai To, who in 1010 renamed the area Thang Long – ‘Soaring Dragon’. Soon after some of the city’s oldest structures were built including the Temple of Literature, Vietnam’s oldest university.
Ha Noi is a city rich in tradition [...]
Bronze drums made at craft festival to promote city’s 1,000th anniversary
Two more of the 100 bronze drums that will be used during celebrations to mark the 1,000th anniversary of Thang Long-Ha Noi this year were cast yesterday at a craft festival in the central city of Da Nang.
The drums have been made in the Dong [...]
VietNamNet Bridge – World-acclaimed Spanish conductor Carlos Cuesta will lead an orchestra gathering Spanish and Vietnamese musicians in a classical concert to be held in the capital on Friday night.
Ready to rock: World-acclaimed Spanish conductor Carlos Cuesta will lead a concert on Friday night. — File Photo
Under the baton of conductor Cuesta, 10 members of [...]
Sofitel Metropole one of the coolest
Ha Noi-based Sofitel Metropole Hotel has made the Conde Nast Traveller Hot List 2010, the publication’s annual list of the “66 Coolest New Hotels in the World”.
The 100-year-old hotel has received numerous other accolades in the past. It was chosen as one of the 500 best hotels in the world [...]
VietNamNet Bridge – British conductor Sir Colin Metters and Vietnamese violinist Bui Cong Duy will return for a concert at the Hanoi Opera House on May 22-23.
Famous violinist returns to roots
The concert is organized by the Vietnam National Symphony Orchestra, introducing music works for violin and orchestra, including “Concerto for Violin and Orchestra D Major” [...]
VietNamNet Bridge – The life of iconoclastic 18th-century Vietnamese poet Ho Xuan Huong will be portrayed in a new bilingual cai luong (reform opera) drama which will debut in HCM City this month.
Ba Chua Tho Nom (the Queen of Nom Poetry), a combination of poetry written in the Nom script that was used until [...]
