Month: February 2021

Posted in Vietnam Foods

Have you ever try eating Dalat foods?

Posted on by Donna Nguyen

That’s so true almost people are acknowledged Dalat where is a romantic place for couples and families with fresh air, comfortable feeling. Especially, there are four seasons in one day, you could walk around the Tuyen Lam lake to sense the spring atmosphere in the early morning, then summer comes with hot, sunny at the noon, in the afternoon the weather is autumn, quite cool, however you will feel the coldness in the evening, so that’s why people should bring a coat and a craft when going outside.

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Posted in Vietnamese culture, WhynotVietnam

Vietnamese Tet holiday

Posted on by Donna Nguyen

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Each time spring comes, we are happy to celebrate 🎉 Tet holiday, normally it happens in the end of January or February according to the lunar calendar.

Although this year is a special case cause Corona virus, we still try to prepare some unique things in our holiday as flowers, sticky rice cake, fried spring rolls, and also buy something news to replace old ones. Tet holiday is also the occasion to express the respect and gratitude to our parents, our grandparents.

The traditional Tet festival lasts for three days. It is considered a time to begin new stuff, to discard the problems of the past year and start all over. People buy new clothes and often change jobs or switch careers. During the last week of the old year, they sweep away all the bad things that have accumulated in the previous 12 months with a thorough cleaning of their homes and gardens, especially including altars that honor gods and ancestors.

This festival is our biggest vacation yearly, we have 5-7 days to celebrate it with all members in our family and including our relatives, our friends, certainly all companies and restaurants, coffee shops close to allow their staffs go back their hometown.

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