January 16, 2012
A local woman is offering food, carps and clothing for the Kitchen Gods On the 23rd of the last lunar month every year, the large kitchen in Ms Ly Thi Phuong’s house in Hanoi’s Gia Lam District becomes extremely busy. The 56-year-old prepares for something important for most Vietnamese – a gala farewell party [...]
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August 16, 2011
 Now is the best time to own the most innovative, top-of-the-line kitchen appliances. Electrolux, the leading global appliance brand, brings you its Bundle of Best Sellers – a mix of essential kitchen products in really special prices. This special bundle includes the Electrolux Kitchen Hobs two- and three-burner models designed for performance and [...]
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May 8, 2011
Nhá»ng tằm (silkworm) has become a popular food, especially in some silkworm-cultivating regions in northern Vietnam. This food has been found to be high in protein and rich in vitamins. Most people cringe when they see an insect, or squish it to pulp. Not many think “dinner.” However, insects have been part of traditional cuisine [...]
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January 28, 2011
The Asian Kitchen Hideaway, in its final hour. On Sunday, the regulars at the Asian Kitchen Hideaway filled the narrow bar with the ebullience of an Irish wake. For the past seven months or so, it sat, speakeasy-like, at the top of the rear stairway in the 185 alleyway off Pham Ngu Lao Street. Many [...]
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February 5, 2010
Hanoians are flocking to buy worship items for the Kitchen God’s day, which will fall on Saturday, February 6. Hang Ma is the street where sacred papers are sold and it entered its busy period around one month ago. The street is decorated in red and yellow, the colors of traditional sacred paper products. Hang Ma’s salesmen [...]
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September 16, 2009
LookAtVietnam – While Vietnamese consumers have a well-developed sense of style, producers say consumers don’t realise that Vietnam-made housewares are better than foreign goods. Made-in-Vietnam products good, but unappealing A big retailer, Nguyen Thi Anh Hong, the owner of Maximark judged that Vietnam-made housewares have one outstanding advantage: high quality. They have disadvantages too: there is [...]
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January 19, 2009
Thousands of nylon bags and ash bags were thrown to rivers and lakes in Hanoi this Sunday, the day Vietnamese families burn votive paper for the Kitchen God (Tao Quan) to ascend to Heaven. Votive papers were burnt everywhere. Bay Mau Lake, which is already a “dumping ground,” on Sunday, was “decorated” with hundreds of nylon [...]
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January 18, 2009
Lookatvietnam – On December 23rd of the Lunar Calendar (which falls on January 18 this year), Vietnamese families arebusy preparing rituals and votive paper for the Kitchen God (Tao Quan) to ascend to Heaven. (Source: VietNamNet/VNE/VOV)
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