Posts Tagged ‘ The Mixture ’

Say cheese during Tet 

January 23, 2012
Say cheese during Tet 

  During New Year, people often like to feast on simple traditional dishes along with their families When the weather turns a little cold at the end of the year, it signals the arrival of holidays like the New Year and the Lunar New Year, or Tet. It is the time when everyone expects to [...]

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Sweet flavors for Tet 

January 22, 2012
Sweet flavors for Tet 

  Mứt Tết (Tet candied fruits) is an indispensable treat during the Lunar New Year Tet is a time when everyone prepares a box of colorful candied fruits, or mứt Tết, at home to give visitors, gift to friends and family, and offer to ancestors. A typical visitor would munch on a candy and roasted [...]

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Miracle beans 

December 19, 2011
Miracle beans 

  Soy, green, black, and red beans on display at a shop selling home-made bột ngÅ© cốc – a mixture powder of black sesame and four different types of beans – on Cach Mang Thang Tam Street, District 10, Ho Chi Minh City My husband has always been thin. But a few months ago it [...]

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Almighty avocado 

July 16, 2011
Almighty avocado 

Studies have shown that a high intake of avocado lowers cholesterol in the blood while avocado oil keeps the skin moist, and can actually increase the elastic capacity of skin. The flesh of an avocado is full of goodness, unlike the fruit’s poisonous skin and stone. Persea americana Mill or Persea gratissima C.F. Gaernt, as [...]

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Goodness of mung beans 

February 18, 2011
Goodness of mung beans 

Mung beans help in detoxing the body as they are a sweet and cooling food, according to the herbalist Nguyen Cong Duc of the Ho Chi Minh City University of Medicine and Pharmacy Đ ậu xanh (mung beans) are a common ingredient in Vietnamese cuisine. Mung beans are added to rice dishes, used in soups [...]

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Eat chè for beauty

January 8, 2010
Eat chè for beauty

Chè with scarcely ripe papaya and fresh cow’s milk will help lighten and smooth skin and blacken hair Chè, the humble stewed fruit and sweet soup, is a favorite food for everyone, especially women. Each kind of chè has a unique flavor and effect – like cooling the body and bringing eaters good sleep. Here [...]

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Chew on this

January 3, 2010
Chew on this

The mastication of betel and areca nut, a dying custom, is a way of life in one small village. For thousands of years, it has been customary to offer guests betel leaves and areca nuts and lime paste at weddings, feasts and on various other occasions in several Asian countries including India, Thailand and Laos.In [...]

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Eggs help slip the yoke of sickness

January 2, 2010
Eggs help slip the yoke of sickness

Chicken eggs are used to make a handful of remedies and traditional medicines Herbalist Hoai Vu says chicken egg yolks are more nutritious than the whites. In Vietnam, yolks are used to make a handful of remedies and traditional medicines that help treat sore throat, red eye, hoarseness and impotence.Vu says yolks are particularly good [...]

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At home spa gift voucher

December 29, 2009
At home spa gift voucher

Rose, jasmine, lotus are the best flowers for a flower bath. Valentine’s Day, Birthday, Women’s Day, several other special days and then… Xmas and the New Year. Run out of gift ideas already? Here are a few options guaranteed to make your loved and cherished ones feel better. What better way to greet the yearend [...]

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Sitting for posterity

December 29, 2009
Sitting for posterity

Bonze Vu Khac Minh (R) who has been preserved in this sitting posture since his death in the 17th century and a replica at Dau Pagoda A Vietnamese expert strips the mystery surrounding a unique process used to preserve Buddhist monks’ bodies in China and Vietnam. When Nguyen Lan Cuong was called in to restore [...]

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Vietnam, Cuba foreign ministries to bolster ties

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Vietnam’s top diplomat has affirmed that the Foreign Ministry will closely cooperate with its Cuban counterpart to implement the agreements reached by the two...