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Moon cakes – the autumn cake

In mid-autumn occasions, people in my country are in hurry to prepare MOON CAKES for gifts to children, elders or their close friends. Especially, nowadays woman prefer to doing handmade cakes by themselves. Moreover, this kind of cake is traditional one since our ancient time then our next generations adapt and follow according to the great great parent’s customs.

In this year, it is a special case, my city is in social quarantine, therefore almost people have made moon cakes and celebrate event within their families.

In the past, the traditional cake is only mixed filling, but now people make many different kinds of cake such as bean cakes, salted-egg cakes, and so on.

Generally, moon cake is a traditional cuisine in special occasion which is Mid-autumn and in this event, almost people celebrate a small party which have moon cake and hot tea .

Let’s jump in and enjoy with me!

Posted in Experience and Tips, Food and Drink, Hanoi - the capital city, Hanoi food, Northern Vietnam

Steamed rice cake – a signature food in Autumn

These days, Hanoi has isolated for whole 2 months when autumn comes. Therefore, we only stay at home and cook by ourselves, however I still have missed some special foods of Autumn such as hot pot, snail noodle, hot steamed rice cake and so on. About hot steamed rice cake, it is a signature food of Hanoi in autumn, in fact, this is very simple to cook but which has its own taste, especially eating in cool weather. In additional, the steamed rice cake of Hanoi is different to other provinces.

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Posted in Experience and Tips, Food and Drink, Hanoi - the capital city, Hanoi food, Northern Vietnam

Fried spring roll

Have you heard about fried spring roll in Vietnam?

Surely, fried spring roll is a signature dish of people in our North which has a unique favor by their creativeness.

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Posted in Experience and Tips, Food and Drink, Hanoi - the capital city, Hanoi food, Northern Vietnam

Bun dau mam tom

Bun dau mam tom (fried tofu, shrimp paste, and noodles) is one of signature foods in Hanoi. Any visitors must try this dish when coming to our capital, we could find it at the hold of the wall to sell this one every streets, or also vendors sit a corner of any roads.

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Posted in Experience and Tips, Northern Vietnam, The Northeast, The Northeast - food and drink

My breakfast with Cao Bang’s foods

Cao Bang is a Northern province with many fantastic places as Ban Gioc waterfall, Pac Po cave, Lenin stream.. Besides that, there are a lot of delicious food in this one.

Last weekend, I missed Cao Bang foods, but I can’t travel while Covid is striking widely in my country, then I found out a hole in the wall in my city where mainly cook those foods.

The first one, I would like to share you about the stuffed pancake

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Posted in Experience and Tips, Hanoi - the capital city, Northern Vietnam

Let’s take a bus in Hanoi

Many people in Hanoi don’t like to use public transportation, cause it is inconvenient to move from this place to others., and also it’s waste of time to wait for a bus.

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Posted in Central Vietnam, Islands, Others in the Central Vietnam

Ly Son, a mystery of nature

I had a chance to visit Ly Son the first time for 5 years ago, I was extremely attractive by natural beauty, human, foods at there.

Our trip must be flied from Hanoi to Chu Lai Airport, after that we took a vessel from mainland to Ly Son island about 1 hour.

Ly Son island is including a main island and a smaller island which is called “Be” island.

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Posted in Mountains, Northern Vietnam, The Northwest

Mu Cang Chai – a destination of nature

Mu Cang Chai

Covid-19 is spreading the fourth in my country, it is the time to stay at home and I look back the past about Mu Cang Chai which is a West North with many terraces and mountains go around.

The road from Hanoi city to Mu Cang Chai is not too hard about 300km forward to West, which is famous of conversational and spectacular sightseeing.

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