banh cuon is popular to Vietnamese as disk for breakfast. The cake preparing process includes grilled rice which is steamed and oil-spread to have sweet-smelling. Banh cuon is prepared available. Leaves of cake put on plate as the customers ask for the disk. The cake is called Banh cuon Thanh Tri due to its origin is Thanh Tri Village of South Hanoi. Besides Banh cuon Thanh Tri, there is rolled rice...

Boiled rice and pork cakes are usually cooked 2-3 days before Tet. Both can be kept for about two weeks in cool temperature. However, after this time they become hard and must be re-boiled.Soak some green beans overnight in water to soften. Drain, rub and clean to remove the skin, and leave to dry. Next, cook the beans in a steamer and grind. Form into balls the size of tennis balls.Soak some glutinous...

Anyone who used to experience the dish would never forget such simple cake made from grilled rice cake and Cray fish only.The cake must be as thin as a leaf but flexible enough. Cray fish must be brittle and sweet. Serving with long jawed anchovy sauce.Banh la cha tom does not as heavily smell as the majority of the other dishes but gentle, elegant and attractive to custome...

All people who used to live in Hanoi are familiar with Banh tom Ho Tay Restaurant on the Thanh Nien (Young) Street. The cake preparing process includes wheat flour mixed with potato fibres, placing on shape with shrimps upper, then fried with oil. The cake is brittle, soft, sweet-smelling, and served with vegetable pickles and sweet and sour fish sauce for best taste....

Ho Chi Minh City-based Cho Ray HospitalPolice have proposed that 12 people, including six doctors, in southern Vietnam, be prosecuted for abuse of power that caused losses of nearly VND4 billion to the state coffer. Inspectors of the Ministry of Public Security said Luu To Lan, a doctor at Ho Chi Minh CIty-based Cho Ray hospital, and her accomplices had faked 1,200 prescriptions for health insurance...

Vietnam has successfully performed its first human heart transplant, after many trials using pigs since August 2005, according to the Vietnam Military Medical University.The operation was performed last Thursday on 48-year-old Bui Van Nam, a patient from the northern province of Nam Dinh with severe heart failure, the Ministry of National Defense’s university said.Nam is now recovering from the two-hour...

French toursits in Hanoi on cyclosVietnam is among the four countries with the highest growth rates in tourism in the first five months this year, a senior industry official has announced.The tourism sector posted a growth of more than 30 percent in the period, and is aiming at a full-year revenue target of US$4 billion, said Nguyen Manh Cuong, deputy head of the Vietnam National Administration of...

Ha Long Bay in Quang Ninh ProvinceVietnam and Indonesia should work together to attract international tourists as both countries have popular destinations, an official said.Companies can offer package tours to Bali, Yogyakarta, Ha Long and Hue, Ambassador of Indonesia to Vietnam, Pitono Purnomo, said at a press briefing in Ho Chi Minh City Tuesday.In order to boost tourism, national carrier Garuda...

A symposium on Vietnamese President Ho Chi Minh’s life, revolutionary cause and thoughts was held in Buenos Aires Friday with the participation of hundreds of Argentinean scholars, politicians, artists and friends of Vietnam.Parliamentarian Julia Argentina Perie, President of the Argentina-Vietnam Friendship Parliamentarians Group, expressed her admiration for President Ho Chi Minh, his revolutionary...

HANOI - The dong has risen marginally against the dollar over the past week but it felt no big impact Monday from China's move over the weekend to make the yuan more flexible, which has lifted other Asian currencies.The dong edged up to VND18,940/18,990 per dollar from VND18,950/19,000 a week ago, Vietcombank, Vietnam's largest partly private lender, said in its daily quotations.Foreign exchange liquidity...

Singer Minh Quan from Radio the Voice of Vietnam (VOV) joined others from ASEAN countries, China, Japan and South Korea in the ASEAN+3 concert in Bangkok, Thailand on Saturday.The concert was to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Thai King Bhumibol Adulyadej coming to the throne and boosting friendship among ASEAN countries and their partners.Quan performed Vietnam’s folk songs and sang a duet...