Four delicious fish sauces in Vietnamese cuisine

In the culinary culture of the Southern people, every fish dish has a very particular taste.

Salted fish sauce- Chau Doc

According to people in Chau Doc, any species of fish sauce can also be made. But the experience of the village, only a few species such as snakehead fish, fish on, colorful fish, bottom fish, salted fish is flexible ... delicious fish meat by window length, when brought as new standards of fish sauce tasty .

There are many ways to eat fish sauce Chau Doc. If you like to eat hot pot sauce, fish sauce storage, use colorful fish, fish parts. And if you like them, of course fish dishes to filter them using fish sauce with minced meat with red onion, onion and eggs.

Ruot fish sauce - U Minh

There is a special kind of fish called fish gut is ancient. This is the only kind of fish gut full of snakehead fish, tuna so expensive. So rare, so when this ancient type of fish only for the nobility, officials ... now, if only to take the family to eat.

Choose fresh fish of about 4-5 kg cleaned meat to eat, take the natural heart, intestine and blood, carrying away, leaving the stomach. Thai small pieces to glue or bowl, depending on the tastes salty crackers that mixed with 2 or 3 heart rate with 1 tablespoon salt. Keep well hidden, exposing 3-5 sun. Too fast, the fish are not waterproof, do not eat salty, the sauce is too long to mature, not only tasty water.

A lantern fish bowl constant waves , fragrant dark, fleshy fat, spices, garlic, chili ... a plate of bacon ( bacon ) boiled, mixed fresh vegetables . Get basting sauce cake hearts, vegetables and meat, peppers, rice noodles rolled ... You can also use white cake, hot rolling dough shrimp, vegetables, bacon, dip it into the bowl of chili sauce with sliced hearts, delicious to forget ... forget the old name .

 Ruoi fish sauce- Tra Vinh

Flies belong to the arthropod worms, small motors have many relatives living in brackish waters. We have many in the coastal provinces of the Mekong Delta has many alluvial silt. Particularly in Tra Vinh province, the commune as: Truong Long Hoa, Dan Thanh, Dong Hai, Long Toan, Duyen Hai District, Vinh Long has appeared many annual half.

Mam half is a unique specialty, very high protein level by only some coastal alluvial silt new half off.

Sprinkle the sauce cup tangerine or more lives, ginger, chilli hit the cotton up and sprinkle a little pink shrimp shrimp paste on your face. Surrounded chrysanthemum, is necessary, is cut out flower, is basil. Eating fish is boiled pork leg meat disk slices or replace its three discs are no longer just nothing.

Salted crab sauce

Bake the crab and take some basil. A little fish sauce, stirring spoons back more sweet. And ... peppers; lot of chili. Chili as spicy as possible. How hot that diners can tolerate - even though sometimes eating just " crying " ... It's crab sauce dishes.

The crab crushed, swept along with red pepper puree, green leaves, then MSG sauce and mix up a paste. The plate of rice served on; pot of steaming white rice, green crab sauce bowl um, aromatic. Needless meat, vegetables basket if there is good, otherwise, just the " raw rice " that " fish trap ".

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Sapa winter

 Tourists often come to Sa Pa in the summer. But if you have the opportunity to Sa Pa in the winter, you will realize that Sa Pa in winter is extremely attractive.

At the height of 1,600 m above sea level , Da Lat, Sa Pa as a Northwest Homeland . Since the 30s of last century, Sapa was chosen as tourist destinations by French, with luxury villas and paved paths between the garden dreamy peach, plum gardens each spring flowers scattered about.

Sa Pa is still known around the city in the fog. But in winter, fog in Sa Pa denser, causing blurry landscape, full of mystery. Clear spread everywhere, like a thin pale gray chiffon panels.

Fog lurking inside the prickly pine roadside lãng on the terraced plots, causing blurred shadows indigo shirt at shows. Clear screw on the far peaks ...

Sa Pa town with homes looming in the fog. The ancient castle villa beside the modern Western architecture, follow the winding roads or protruding or on the slopes, hillsides.

The road in the picturesque town. Despite the cold and fog, the ancient trees along roadsides are still blue.

The forest structure, vast pine forests remain impartial vu song of the wind. On the red- tiled sidewalk, way back there is a section of the “shop” consists of two cells, Brocade sales. Merchandise (hat, scarf, pillow, purse ...) present on the plastic plate, shielded by an umbrella. A charcoal fire covers other cells flowing.

Looming in the fog, the woman wearing bow bearer plugged steps. The colorful towel on top and colorful gowns made ​​in the brilliant animated dotted the streets.

Small town closely with countless stalls of goods, categories, very rich and diverse. Most kinds of souvenirs, warm clothing, shoes, electronics, toys ...

Most products are imported from China. Only brocade (blankets, pillow covers, clothing, handbags, purses, handkerchiefs, embroidery...) is “homegrown”, made skillful hands of women ethnicity, with decorative motifs and sophisticated and fancy. 

Despite the fact that the cold weather and fog hung like wet cutting, Sapa market remains very active. In addition to Vietnamese tourists and visitors West, on the street, in the market is very much fellow Hmong, Red Dao, Giay ... White Hmong people wear costumes patterned colorful.

The Red Dao girl red turban studded red tassels. Black Hmong black turban, black shirt, black short trousers to the knee, leg black leggings. The Po Sa skirts or pants, short sleeve patterned border ... They sell goods and brocade, acquired the necessary utensils. 

Located in Muong Hoa valley, Sa Pa town less than 10 km, the Cat is a vivid picture of the Hmong culture. The houses are in the po mu wood roofing, with the tree on the stone pillars round or square. The outer room types Brocade sale , souvenirs, bronze and silver jewelry and ethnic instruments : new leads, pan leaf, bamboo flute ...

Not as dry Silver waterfall in winter, Cat falls in love valley, still rushing white water pouring from dozens of meters high, strung between blinding fogs. Under streams, on rocks looming round the ball girls in red dress sitting green washing ashore small hydropower stations were built by the French from the 30s of the last century still standing, with challenges time. 

Winter resorts Ham Rong as a sleeping princess, mysterious and beautiful magic. Go on small roads winding between stone peculiar shapes enough, watching the apricot trees, peach trees bare, quiet in the mist, visitors suddenly feel like you are lost in a world without real. Scattered here and there are the " shop " souvenir Brocade : hats , bags , towels , wallet ..., as the glorious blue stand out among the trees, the gray fog and rocks. Not all flowers are evading winter. Natural apricot flavor was white as snow before the wind calm flyaway. Marigold yellow, immense. Convolvulus flower purple floral still immense space. The spring orchid, orchid message, comedy dancer ... still blooming, beautiful yet heart ... It was here, in the warm house floor, visitors will see a program of dance music peculiar ethnic. 

 Sa Pa Market night filled with tasty, aromatic spice. Most baked products: chicken, pork, beef ... At this point, you will have the opportunity to taste the famous horse trying to win the Sa Pa. Sitting around the pot of boiling water, dip leisurely travelers met a lush little green vegetables: cabbage, frequency plots, sweet cabbage, watercress, improved cat ... take out the cup, blowing taste. Click to try to win a hot spoon, sweet muted, suddenly turned cold frostbitten where it was ...

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Eight inspiring locations for taking photo in Hanoi

Yen Vien strain station, Long Bien Bridge and the streets are littered with fallen yellow leaves are always inspiring places for photo hunter.

1. Longan garden 

Location: Located at the foot of Vinh Tuy Bridge.
About 2 years recently, with about 500 longan trees near Vinh Tuy bridge (Long Bien district, Hanoi) has become an attractive place for young people to take photo.

2. Yen Vien station

Location: Going toward to Bac Ninh and go through Duong bridge, the Railway Station is on the left.

Peaceful scene with the trains, where appropriate place for enjoying tinkering with something new, classic and a little personality.


3. Nhat Tan flower garden

Location: Going on from lane 264 Au Co , Tay Ho District.

Here flowers bloom all year round, from the most pressing, sunflower, butterfly flower, flower nail to the spoiled dragon ... and the young couple posing.
The fee for each garden is 20,000 VND / person, for the bride and groom, can cost up to VND 200,000 - 300,000 per pair.


4. The street s with yellow leaves falling

Location: Hoang Dieu, Phan Dinh Phung, Dien Bien Phu, Kim Ma.

The road is pretty popular in Hanoi with trees, creating a peaceful feeling, fresh.

Whenever you walk up to Kim Ma Street, near the Diplomatic Area and Van Phuc street, you can find a nice angle to take pictures. In the spring, the road covered with red buds of the plant Lagerstroemia closely.

In the summer, the cool green grass becomes more brilliant in the sun. Autumn, fall leaves and even full path winters Kim Ma street with spindly trees also attract teenagers pose bewitching figure.

5. Temple of literature

Temple of literature is particularly impressive in the heart of Hanoi and attracts tourists every day. That fall leaves, green grass and old buildings from the Ly dynasty. This place is always the first choice of who wants to retain memories.

At any angle, one can also see images of flowing robes, the manipulator amateur but enthusiastic.


6. Imperial Citadel of Thang Long

Location: Located on Hoang Dieu.

There are not too many features but here attracted by landscape photographer ancient, inspired artistic creations.


7. Long Bien Bridge

Long Bien Bridge is not only a witness to history, connecting the banks of the Red River that connects life was idyllic, unspoiled beaches of the people between the Red River to the bustling urban prosperous place.

Every moment of the day will bring this historic bridge a different beauty. If the early morning, the bridge looming in the mist unfurl unfurling behind the beach between the Red River at evening begins, the Long Bien Bridge has become quiet old age as an artist at sunset.


8. Hoan Kiem Lake and the Old Quarter

Location: around Hoan Kiem Lake, the ancient streets.

If you want to keep it quiet beauty, the gentleness of Hanoi Old Quarter is the most suitable destination. Green lakeside scene they earn, with The Huc Bridge, turtle tower prominent among them. But district board with dazzling Hang Ma always lanterns, fabrics with bar bamboo create unique shapes or the old neighborhood craft will be beautiful backdrops.

When autumn brings Hoan Kiem Lake a strange beauty, will collect chilly wind, one can clearly feel the smell of fallen leaves and water mingles with the smell of earth. This is also the time when the inflorescences sesame graceful drooping crimson lake. If late winter, sesame replace the late autumn leaves yellow, red flowering tree as a curtain to let the water surface. Sky blue water and sesame flowers will create a beautiful, poetic scene.

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Ten great festival in the first month of lunar new year

During the first month of the year, over nation are jubilant to celebrate festival with many exciting activities and attractions.

1. The festival of catching husband in Lam Dong

From the first day to the end of time is the lunar festival began husband of the Chu Ru ethnic, CIL, and The Ho ... Lam Dong in the Central Highlands in particular and in general. The festival takes place at night. When a guy like that, inform girls about family and family know. The family will hold talks to the boys. If the guy agreed, husband arrested ceremony will be held on the day before the wedding. She will be on hand to ring the son. 7 days after the wedding, her mother takes off the ring and back ring store guy kept by her mother.

2. Dong Da Festival - Tay Son, Binh Dinh


Dong Da Festival – Tay Son area commemorates the occasion of the illustrious leader of the Tay Son movement, especially cloth hero Quang Trung - Nguyen Hue and celebrates the victory of Ngoc Hoi - Dong Da. The festival takes place from the 4th to the 5th lunar month, in Quang Trung Museum, Phu Phong town, Tay Son Binh Dinh.

In addition to traditional ceremonies, festival has organized many cultural activities like folk and martial arts demonstrations war drums Xishan, sailing, traditional games, singing opera ... attract domestic and foreign tourists.


3. Ba Den Mountain Festival , Tay Ninh

Ba Den Mountain Spring Festival this year was the opening of the 4th Lunar New Year properly and lasts until the end of January. This is a traditional festival and the famous Tay Ninh Province Southeast.

Visitors to the temple she could on foot or by mountain system of chutes and cable cars. In addition to early Buddhist pilgrimage holidays, with the high of Ba Den Mountain is 968 m interesting challenge for many young people love to conquer.


4. Huong Pagoda Festival in Hanoi

Perfume Pagoda Festival this year with the theme “Tourism festival - Huong Pagoda beauty of Vietnamese traditional culture " will officially open on January 6 meeting, and lasted until the end of March lunar calendar. Huong Son Commune, My Duc district, Ha Noi , Huong pagoda festival is one of the longest running festivals in the country. Coming to the festival , visitors not only get involved in the process up to the Buddha but also be immersed in the small space of the vast country with a sightseeing boat sits now.

5. Long Tong Festival, Tuyen Quang


Long Tong Festival is a traditional festival of the Tay ethnic Tuyen Quang province. The festival is held on the 8th of January every year with new year wishes for a good rain, and wind, harvests, family warm and happy.

In this day, which also prepared the items made from agricultural to rising gods, such as rice cakes, pork, boiled eggs, sticky rice five colors? Also part of the ceremony, the opportunity associated with traditional games and people are always waiting to welcome visitors as throwing, walking on stilts, puppetry, cock fighting, swinging, martial dance , tug, push sticks, shoot crossbows and then sing.

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Five unique Vietnamese spring rolls

Thanks to Geographical features, culture, ethnicity and climate regulation culinary peculiarities of each region - region, contributing to food Vietnam abundant and diversified. Emotional words that featured good food Vietnam highway in the match with other culinary cultures around the world: Chinese food supplement, Japanese food look like eyes. Vietnamese food is delicious.

Hanoi Ear spring rolls

Hanoi ear spring rolls is considered to be a very unique dish of Hanoi, this dish is widely used in family, in the table and is very meaningful gift every time go away. Not only that, this is also a very popular dish with tourists from everywhere.

Someone said nem ear originating from Nam Dinh, Ha Noi was introduced to by a girl, when to get married at Covenant Ceremony (Ha Tay).  Due to the meticulous and requires great caution, since the ear pick, who do have to get healthy pig 's ear, such as ear seasoned meat, and to the less points. Next is cleaning the ears, this is extremely important stages and needs meticulous, if not cleaned, will leave the smell and affect the storage time. Then steamed a batch to ear not dehydrate while maintaining crispness, soft.

Pregnancy stages require very sharp knife sharpener to move to the real standard, not too thick because of loss of appetite and food will not be too thin and brittle so will not take away. However, the most important final stage, the success of the spring rolls are still hearing ear - made from green bean flour, soya bean, glutinous rice, glutinous rice and some other spices. These materials are roasted olive before breaking down, and then roasted, then puree in blender and mix on pig ear.

When enjoying, tasting rolled in rice paper with a few pieces of pickled figs, a little fig leaf, the leaf village temple, a few marjoram leaves, plus a slice of sausage rolls silk or half sour. Touching lightly spicy vinegar sauce will make you or anyone else have to remember this dish.

Giao Thuy fish sauce and spring rolls

Nem Nam Giao Thuy (Nam Dinh) famous Tran dynasty. Legend has it that, when the king chooses Minister Tran Thien Truong as a place to dwell, the village was formed. Nam Giao Thuy spring rolls are also considered king specialties offered at the time. Is a product of civilization rice, Giao Thuy mattress is made from packaging and pork mixed with rice and hearing with other additives such as garlic and fish sauce and then hold the tip in fig leaf and lentils. As large as rolls are carefully selected from the skin of healthy pigs, not too old or too young. After removing sticky hair and subcutaneous fat, pork packing was brought to boiling (boiling water for about 3-5 minutes) for medium to soft yet chewy packaging, if boiled will be mysterious glue appetite. Packaging must be sliced by hand, absolutely not used by the state machine.

Pork spring rolls as selected in the first part, the meat and little fat. Taste of spring rolls rice is largely created by the listeners. The Marine Transportation has the most delicious rice, using the delta to hearing, thus resulting flavor characteristics distinguish them from other areas.

To book rolls indulge held in San fig leaves, herbs and more briefly in the past few bowls Sa Chau fish sauce (Giao Chau Commune, Giao Thuy district). First this sauce is also very well known, it is made the traditional way, the fish is cooked naturally, not through marinated, then about 6 months to carry out juiced raw fish. Then again the sun hot sauce and pour into earthen jars buried in the ground for another 6 months. So it took nearly 1 year, Chau Sa new sauce was brought out to eat with mattress.

Xu Thanh sour pork

Referring to taste culinary Thanh country not to mention specialty nem chua - have very different tastes sour nem nem lui Hanoi and Hue, as far back spring rolls or spring rolls with ears. It's just sour, spicy to salty taste that's both spicy, sweet taste of meat do not eat we cannot continue a few more.

Making spring rolls is a unique job, not difficult but there are certain secrets. Raw materials consist mainly of lean minced meat, boiled pork packing, clean shaved, sliced into thin strands left to mill, about 3cm shorter; hearing is roasted rice, minced fine. There enamel reducers, north pepper, salt and monosodium glutamate crystals just enough.

However, the most important stage is the preparation: what to do first, what to do next, how sweet mix ... and of sanitation as well as technical pillows also very strict. So it was not really a new strain makes the exotic cuisine and alluring mouth. Banana leaves, strips are forced nem chua material things. Stripping banana leaves about 3 to 4 cm, stowed on the fork or basketry, crackers forced to soft, flexible, fiber to small depending on the size of the rolls (now replaced by the elastic ring). Hands supple, soft start throwing people do every meatballs sifted clay, usually about twice the size of pieces. Banana leaves when washed, dried meatballs wrapped around the steering leaves adorn nails. Wrap rolls that leaves much to be able to 10 times to 15 times at first, a beautiful square. These packages fingers and singing for about 1 minute , then flip forced to make hand how not to fall off the leaves that are still green and beautiful rolls .

Depending on weather rolls can eat, then summer rolls had 5 hours of eating, winter is 1 to 2 days. The population of Thanh Hoa in the South to the North, though he was very busy job, despite the heavy lifting and trying to bring a few dozen family members or relatives donations. Tet holidays or weddings, sour pork become indispensable delicacy. Included with the green pair of Chung cake, the New Year rolls are the strings made of nem chua homeland invite guests to play house.

Hue “Lui” spring rolls

Lui spring rolls is unique dishes of Hue, it was everyone's favorite. Lui spring rolls made from lean pork is hot, do not scan the inclination puree and mix with packing and cleaning the fat,  diced, thoroughly stuffed, marinated with spices like pepper, onion, fish sauce, sugar, hearing and salt. When customers call , the bartender into strings of small skewers grilled on charcoal and red flowers, fragrant, spreads throughout the city as the call period, as pedestrians hook.

The soup was first decided Lui spring rolls quality, traditional dishes are difficult to imitate. Lui spring rolls eat soups made from dozens of foods such as vegetable oil, sesame peanut, corn starch, some of the herbs, medicinal. All material that is processed into a fragrant mixture of viscous medium has succulent, fleshy sweet, eat a time to remember forever. Type broth soups are similar to delight cake, bun kebabs.
Typically, people eaten with rice paper rolls Lui, herbs, slot, green banana, fig, bean sprouts, slices of chili, garlic, ginger which just move depending on each person 's taste. Food is the harmonious combination of flavors: the smell of browning meats, slightly spicy and chili pepper and dust mops sweetness of gelatinous sauce, green vegetables are fresh.

Nha Trang Baked rolls

Nha Trang specialty dishes include lots of flavor associated with the sea, but also have heard nothing dishes involved the sea, including baked rolls.

Nha Trang baked spring rolls made from fresh lean thighs kind of real, freshly made rolls when new discharge delicious, easy and fragrant. Meat has been scanned sawn smooth, chilled little more bold spices, skewered and grilled over charcoal fire for meat rolls yellow nursery. Then book with long thin piece of rice paper, fried ram during the golden straw rolls, served with salad greens, herbs, tomatoes contract, banana and dotted with soy sauce is made from over 20 secret spices according heirloom.

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Tran Quoc pagoda - the heart of Hanoi soul

The temple was very famous with age of more than 1,500 years of history. Located at the end Co Ngu street (Thanh Nien Road), on the eastern peninsula of West Lake (Yen Phu, Tay Ho) with a history of 1,500 years is considered as Tran Quoc Pagoda has a long history of Thang Long - Hanoi is also one of the oldest temples in Vietnam. The pagoda was built in the reign of King Ly Nam De (544-548) in the Red River beach Yen Hoa ward with the name Khai Quoc Pagoda (Foundation nation). After many name changed as people get used to calling name is Tran Quoc Pagoda (Protect nation) - can be put in the late 17th century under Le Hy Tong reign.

Like most of the other temples in the country of Vietnam, Tran Quoc pagoda has many folds, many Buddhist statues from low to high, from big to small, glittering golden, smoky flavor year round.... Temple has three main sticky street, house burned incense and upper -shape connector Industry. But architecture to bring other distinctions is particularly wide scale. Visitors to the temple not only Buddhist prayer ceremony which was also immersed in the art space of natural harmony, that his soul still in the middle of the ancient seal bearing the perennial soul Vietnamese soil. Nestled between the immense waves of Lake Highlands has created heaven and earth for the tourists feel the majesty of the ancient architectural elegance and beauty, peaceful lakeside scenery. Through the arched curve ball is soaring coconut Tower Gardens with ancient tower from the Vinh Huu Canh Hung and 18th centuries. Especially the tower of the lotus continent has 11 floors, 15 meters high and the floor area of 10.5 square meters.

Each tower consists of 6 floor doorway archer, statues of Amitabha Buddha with precious stones. The total number of towers is 66 objects on top of cheese and has 9 floors with precious stones and lotus (Lotus- lasting products). Standing at the foot of the tower at the center for Buddhist palms, make peace together in our minds as heaven and earth, the soul who suddenly deposited between the Identity no real damage actually unspoilt of a human life. Each temple bells hum as obscure as to all the noisy bustle of the streets. Each incense smoke spiraling up seemed to savor the purity of impermanence. Going from house to burn incense and upper steeple not only make the hearts of Buddhist purification between realms. But above all, in each of the ancient moss roof, in each of the sculptural emerged on each fiber in a peaceful folds, in ancient handwriting on beer ever heard rock like aftertaste of deposition time brings old soul of Thang Long thousand years of civilization have majesty but still was very simple, humble. Tran Quoc afternoon, between the calm water of the sky, red sunset over the water pouring raised, the life exudes harmony in each temple bell rhythm steady strokes bring the ancient past are washed away his heart as part of a secular purification of the air that was peaceful. Like a beautiful green island, the waves are shed its West Lake, Tran Quoc Pagoda is today not only the Buddha's sacred place attracts so many Buddhists to worship but also as one of the attractions offices, tourist attractions of Ha Noi capital.

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Great Church in Hanoi

Live in Hanoi, perhaps no one knows the Church Street area. Many people say if visitors to the capital that will not come here because I was sorry to miss many interesting things.

“Let’s meet infont of the church” is a common saying of many young people here in Hanoi and becoming familiar rendezvous of many groups of friends. If you walk through here, you will be able to answer this question.
Located in the center of Hanoi, Hanoi church has had a quiet bustle. Church is always open to visitors at all times, except when the ceremony.

Leave the noise of the streets, entering inside the campus, you will feel peaceful space. It has a large yard; they hear the sound of children playing in the adjacent school, occasionally a few birds Ethyl jump shots on the lower canopy. In the hall is a large church with rows of benches and the sparkling glass windows.

Not only had the largest cathedral in Hanoi, where there are more people called “cooperatives”. Because only in a small area around the city of poets, Chung, Au Trieu, Ly Quoc Su had all kinds of restaurants and shops to sell for people of all ages.

Young Adults prefer to church because this is an area famous lemon tea and coffee in Hanoi sidewalk. Hot summer with lemon tea became fashionable for young people. Dating, birthday, meeting, gathering all leading to lemon tea.

By winter, the shop is less busy but still dark days. The afternoon is the busiest time. This is an appropriate time to sit along the church, drink a glass of water, watching the sun slowly shuts down and starts concentrations floral aroma milk.

If you do not like lemon tea, you can choose the luxurious cafe or younger. There are cute little shops like La Place, Hanoi House, as well as comparison shop chic hot, Paris Deli ...
It is also home to many cafes in Hanoi mentioned handbook popular Lonely Planet travel. So many foreign tourists also known here as consistent with Moca, Highland.

It would be flawed if prompted to “cooperative “without talking about the food here. Pho 10 Ly Quoc Su, her American chicken soup, porridge son Lane County, Lane Tho Xuong ribs, fried cheese box, nem chua fried pillow bread, and dumpling ... all will be found only in a few steps around the cathedral.

This is also the busiest shopping for clothing store specializing in silk and handmade jewelry, crafts and fine art.

Just take a walk, you will find a few favorite items and originality. And who knows, you will also want to go back “cooperative “this much again.
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Hanoi Museum

Besides the famous sights such as Hoan Kiem Lake, the old quarter, the temple literature, perhaps Hanoi Museum is a place not to be missed for those who want to explore the capital via line length thousand years of history.

Located on Pham Hung Street, right next to the National Convention Centre, Hanoi Museum - one of the important works inaugurated the festival in 1000 years of Thang Long - Ha Noi - Ha Noi is home to recreate the past and present thousands of artifacts related to the capital, thousands of years of civilization. With an area near campus than 50.000m2 and 12.000m2 land construction, this is a large and modern museum in the country. Seen from afar, the Hanoi Museum impresses with a unique architectural design vertical inverted pyramid. The museum has six floors, including four storey and two basements, the floor area gradually scaled down in order from top to bottom. Museum impresses visitors by that appearance, modern design, convenient. Visitors can on the other floors by elevator or by stairs designed into a spin round the museum. Upon entering the first floor, visitors will admire “column Botanical dragon” - large lamp lighting between rooms highlights majestic dragon fly. . Zone floor is designed as a temporary place to display some pottery and souvenir shops. The second floor is a miniature Hanoi Hanoi natural areas, parks Money Thang Long, grave Phung Nguyen, Loa diagram three rounds, boat burial zones along the Dong Son culture of Hanoi pictures. Sample was dried pressed flowers, leaves milk flower - flowers suggestive of an immense fiery Hanoi each fall, or suggestions about the beautiful singing, Cha Ca La Vong, West Lake shrimp cake. Memories Ha went into how the poems, music art, faith becomes inconsolable longing in my heart not only for children but also for anyone Hanoi has few fleeting opportunity here.

 Hanoi Museum, visitors have the opportunity to admire the antiques collected from all parts of the country. Let's take up three floors of the museum - a collection of space artifacts showing his heart with beloved capital, which showcases the documents, artifacts due to the way organizations and individuals with a lot of toys donated pottery like bowls, vases ... or manufacturing tools, canoe found in Tien Giang, Ca Mau ... through archaeological excavations are on display on the fourth floor museum.
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Saigon sticky rice

Saigon town sells a distant city and its many sticky rice “specialty" hard to find elsewhere. Saigon sticky rice can be divided into two categories as sticky salty and sweet sticky rice. Sweet sticky rice is the most common with Gac sticky (also known as purple sticky rice), sticky bean, durian sticky rice, and sticky rice. Each type has adding onions, onion, coconut sugar or separate cells. For example, beans always eat sticky rice coated green peas puree add a piece of yellow nursery, add a little coconut small cell, is then sprinkled with a little sugar white sandy. Qigong is a kind of distant purple faithful. Eat more fat to be digging out and new non- issue right away. It is often sprinkled with onion and onions when savory food, but own with some sticky rice sticky sweet as the cam attached to these two new tasty. This way of eating is indeed just as popular in Saigon that eats food without water seemed to have more fat. The sticky rice originating from the north as sticky crumb, gill arcs away Gac stalls on the roads around Saigon. On to the South, the taste of the dish away more or less changed. Still scented sticky rice with glutinous rice, sweet flavor other than whether the taste of the South.

Southern pure sweet sticky to mention the corn away. Glutinous corn is corn, stewed with coconut water, forming a half away half porridge dishes. Thoroughly broken corn finished basement so soft, even slightly wet, fresh white, sprinkle green beans for me finely, then add little grated coconut, sesame salt. Eating fat in just sweet but not sick leave just delicious. Sweet sticky Saigon, as its name implies, the sweetness mingled with the aroma of sticky plastic, coconut fatty leopard, green beans and onion puree rotation, the extra little crunchy onions fragrant aroma creates a separate flavor but familiar. There is also a special sticky rice sweet but not quite as popular as the sweet sticky rice dish aforementioned Siamese away. Flung Siamese originated from Thailand. Flung Siamese is compiled from material from the Thai glutinous rice, coconut, durian, jiggery...

The Siamese sticky rice processing complex but need not have experience and ingenuity. Steamed sticky rice to ripe, supple and not hard nor paste, sauce, sweet, juicy but not fatty and fresh. In Saigon away Siamese is usually sold in Chinatown (District 5). Flung to mention the sticky salty chicken, sticky rice sausage, quail eggs, tiny clinic, sticky rolls, pâté... Often people will leave chicken flung aside, still sticky with sausage, rolls, quail eggs, pâté will collectively referred to as sticky salty. The dishes on common ingredients that are cooked rice, scented plastics, pig fat with chopped onion stalks green nursery intact even after grade oil is hot, add the onions crispy aromatic less. Depending on your needs and taste selected dishes that comes as dried shrimp, shrimp fried dough, sausage, quail eggs...As for the chicken away and there are many ways to enjoy. The most popular is still sticky shredded chicken, delicious just convenient, it is to meet the demand for fast, convenience of the city. Where busy people love to be made available.

Chicken pieces are torn into small erosion, while not eat the shredded chicken hand, just enjoying the delicious food brought. Shredded chicken can be boiled chicken thoroughly in fresh water for each muscle; can also be fried chicken, which is taking place to choose grilled chicken. Saigon flung usually sold in the morning or evening. Light is usually walks away gathered in front schools, or roadside sales. Before any school with at least a burden on the sidewalk away that large and small roads also indispensable burden away. Flung way to mention the high road win from the start line to the intersection of Dien Bien Phu. Cars that are investment vehicles carefully, for three or four pulses of high –sticky rice, smoke spiraling up. Mostly sweet sticky rice with colorful eye-catching. Just drive through, listening to disperse fragrance in the air it's hard to hold back hearts that go on. Each package is priced here away from 5,000 VND to 10,000 VND. Corner of intersection with Suong Nguyet Anh, Cach Mang Thang Tam also a burden away chicken, and sticky corn sold only delicious in the afternoon. Burden away has approximately twenty years.

Through many ups and downs at the same time, the son of her once stellar sales go well with a lot less, but still taste delicious packages like since when away. 7,000 Flung here only one package; it is wrapped in banana leaves, not wrapped in cellophane as elsewhere. Saigon also has a restaurant away from the old voice cried far located in Bui Thi Xuan street. It was named the best restaurant in Saigon sticky rice with fried chicken, chicken hearts and flung away Gac fame. Flung here has a moderate bloom, scented plastic back. Gac fruit is sweet sticky rice bar to cool naturally scented. People come here will definitely eat there once a second, third parties. Shop is small but has a large staff, the enthusiasm, whether to eat or will not take long to wait.

Cultural diversity away in Saigon that. Sticky rice dish is always delicious, has had no bread no less convenient. The Saigon minded, receptive and core erosion. Burden away that also which become abundant, more varied. From a rustic little sticky rice is also part should portray distinct culture of Members chosen the wrong people.

(Source: Gray Line Vietnam)

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Bach Dang festival

Bach Dang River is the evidence of many battles which were against many invaders. It was also a place we memorize many heroes. That is Ngo Quyen with wooden stakes battle defeated Han army (938), Le Hoan (981 years) against the Sung, Hung Dao Vuong-Tran Quoc Tuan - the famous general Tran (1288) against the Mongol.

Location: Taking place in Yen Giang Commune, Yen Hung district, Quang Ninh Province.
Time: To be held on March 8th (lunar calendar) every year, this lasted four days and nights.
Meaning: The festival celebrates the victory of Bach Dang national heroes who fight invaders.
Bach Dang Festival takes place on the ancient land with evidence of heroes, attracting thousands of people around the delta of the Red River. Ceremonial procession took place from Holy Temple. From the Yen family then brought back home from the temple with solemn ceremonies. After the game is to retell the glorious victory of Bach Dang River as sailing brush, oratorio of Bach Dang battle: offering the tide schedule, plan on fire, hauling poles on the Bach Dang River...

Center for the festival at Tran Hung Dao Temple – Vua Ba Temple and other family temple Yen Hung district, The Dinh Trung (Lien Hoa) Chinese cup Temple (Nam Hoa commune) Dinh Dien Cong (Cong Dien) Holy Mass procession from the temple Tran Bach Dang, Giang Linh from the Yen family, and returned. Games review the glorious victory of Bach Dang River as sailing brush, oratorio of Bach Dang battle: offering the tide schedule, plan on fire, hauling poles on the Bach Dang River...

Tran Hung Dao Temple festival includes: the load resistance of the civil and military drills Tran, rituals, ceremonies statue of Tran Hung Dao, the swimming traditional Bach, Bach oratorio tradition, wrestling, human chess ... Bach Dang Festival is the largest and sacred. There are many state leaders attend. The swimming custom is a vital ritual. On large rivers, the race of much bamboo leaf boat race spiraling labor, the cheers of the Assembly on the waterfront as revive echoes of battles in the past. The games were held in many places such as wrestling, chess people, and fighting cock.

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