Tet Vietnam, New Year, Tet Festival, New Year Celebration, Food and Customs

Instead of using gac fruit (cochinchina momordica seed) and pineapple leaves, now many people in the Mekong Delta use cam leaves to dye noodles or rice to make banh tet la cam (glutinous rice cake filled with green bean paste and fat pork and covered by cam leaves). Cam leaves grow on cam trees in [...]

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 If you’re unfamiliar with Tet sticky rice cakes (banh chung and banh tet), the must-have food for Vietnamese Lunar New Year celebration, chances are you may be asking, “Is it an adobe brick or doorstop wrapped in banana leaf?” At Viet delis, bakeries and grocery stores, you’ll find them this week and next displayed on [...]

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