Posts Tagged ‘ The Restaurant ’

Tiger bone found on cooker at Hanoi restaurant 

January 11, 2012
Tiger bone found on cooker at Hanoi restaurant 

Tiger bones seized from a Hanoi restaurant on Monday   Police in Hanoi on Monday found a restaurant cooking tiger bone glue, which is considered a tonic by many people. A tiger skeleton weighing 150 kilograms was being cooked at Tay Bac Quan restaurant at Thanh Xuan District when the police arrived. The Vietnam Science and [...]

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Food for the future 

November 12, 2011
Food for the future 

  Cuttle fish dish with traditional Vietnamese herbs at KOTO Saigon Just before the turn of the millennium, a restaurant named KOTO Hanoi opened in Vietnam’s capital to give street kids and other disadvantaged children practical experience in restaurant work. Now its namesake has started up in Ho Chi Minh City with the same mission [...]

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Nostalgia in the kitchen 

October 22, 2011
Nostalgia in the kitchen 

  Evoking a bygone age, the once ubiquitous clay cooking pot brings out the full flavor of food The Chinese restaurant Dynasty in the New World Saigon Hotel offers ten tantalizing dishes cooked in the clay pot way from October 17 to November 13 Back when Vietnam was mostly an agrarian society, a clay pot [...]

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Portuguese restaurant opens in southern metro 

September 20, 2011
Portuguese restaurant opens in southern metro 

  Cod fish Brás style and chicken barbecued at Lisboa café Lisboa café, the first Portuguese restaurant in Vietnam, opened its doors in Ho Chi Minh City last week. After many years living in Vietnam, Pedro Castelo, a Portuguese man, married a Hanoian woman. Upon settling down in HCMC, Castelo opened a Portuguese restaurant on [...]

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Four arrested for murder in southern Vietnam 

August 22, 2011
Four arrested for murder in southern Vietnam 

The restaurant where a 18-year-old boy was allegedly killed by three former employees and an accomplice in Ho Chi Minh City early this month. Police arrested the four suspects on Friday. Police in Ho Chi Minh City Friday arrested four people, including a teenager, for investigating the murder of an 18-year-old youth when they robbed a restaurant [...]

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Vegetarian festival 

August 6, 2011
Vegetarian festival 

  Vietnamese show their respect to mothers in the Vu Lan festival by wearing roses and going vegetarian The Vu Lan festival allegedly dates back to an Indian sutra which was translated into Chinese in the Third Century. The sutra told the story of a pair of Buddhist disciples who enlisted the help of Buddhist [...]

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Caught the bug yet? 

August 5, 2011
Caught the bug yet? 

  A plates of fried crickets. Insect restaurants are becoming more popular in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City. “One worm is enough to spoil the soup (Con sau lam rau noi canh),” goes a popular Vietnamese saying. The saying has got it all wrong, many gourmets in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City say. Creepy [...]

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A bite of Hue in Saigon 

June 11, 2011
A bite of Hue in Saigon 

  Hue food reminds one of not only sophisticated royal dishes but also simple culinary delights made of the best ingredients from river, green field and mountain in this former capital of Vietnam. Be it a royal dinner or a simple bánh bèo, Hue food does not merely fill the stomach, it delights discerning palates [...]

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Mexican Fiesta, other treats in store at Sheraton Saigon 

May 2, 2011
Mexican Fiesta, other treats in store at Sheraton Saigon 

Saigon Café at Sheraton Saigon Hotels and Towers offers a Mexican Fiesta every Thursday. This May, the Sheraton Saigon Hotels and Towers in Ho Chi Minh City will offer a Labor Day brunch and dinner, a special Mother’s Day feast and a weekly Mexican Fiesta. Every Thursday night, the hotel’s Saigon Café will host a [...]

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Probe resumed in Viet Kieu assault case 

April 24, 2011
Probe resumed in Viet Kieu assault case 

The Thanh Cong Company guards who are alleged to have committed the crime in custody at the District 1 police station in July 2010. Ho Chi Minh City police said Wednesday they would resume investigations into the case where a Dutch man was allegedly beaten, tasered and stripped off his pants by private security guards [...]

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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...