Similar to rice noodle and chicken or pork soup (Hu tieu), My Quang is a variety of Pho (rice noodle soup), because the noodles are made from rice and soused with soup as serving. The soup sauce, which is added, comes from a mixture of flavor from beef or pork bone, shrimps, crabs, chicken and duck. The noodles are yellow, somewhat distinct from Pho. However, the main reason for having this color is to be in hannony with the colors of shrimps and crabs. There is also noodle for vegeterians.
Quang soft noodle soup tastes best when being served with a variety of herbs, such as mint leaves, houttunya, cabbage, onion, coriander, banana flower and so on. A bowl of Quang soft noodle soup is normally dressed with pieces of banh trang (also called baked rice paper), roasted groundnuts, shrimp or pork, which look very tasty.
Quang soft noodle soup ( My Quang)
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Snail dish ( Mon Oc )
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Snail dish is a popular but unique dish of Hanoi people. It is easy to order some dishes like snail steamed with ginger leaf, gingered snail, snail sauted with carambola, snail boiled with lemon leaf, snail steamed with Chinese herbs, and so on, in many small restaurants, restaurants, and even hotels.
However, vermicelli and snail sour soup is the most attractive to young ladies because of brittleness by snails, the slightly sour taste by snail soup, and hot by chilly boiled down, making even gorged people keep eating.
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Lang Son roasted pork(Lon quay Lang Son)
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Anyone who arrives in Lang Son Province could find it difficult to say no to Lon quay dish. Lon quay Lang Son is delicious for many reasons, however, the main specific taste of the dish comes from the unique flavor of a kind of leaf called "Mac mat" (meaning "sweet leaf"). The leaf is soaked with spices, fish sauce, glutamate, flavoring powder, then stuffed into clean pig belly and placed on reverted furnace. Pig is fried the spread with watery honey so as to make the skin turn golden and brittle, and pork is soft and sweet-smelling as finish.
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Litchi (Vai thieu)
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Thieu is name dedicated to a special kind of litchi grown in Hung Yen province and Luc Ngan commune in Ha Bac province. Thieu litchi is a bit bigger than a Longan. Unlike the skin of Longan which is rather smooth, the skin of litchi is rough with some ripples. The skin is dark red.
Thieu is name dedicated to a special kind of litchi grown in Hung Yen province and Luc Ngan commune in Ha Bac province. Thieu litchi is a bit bigger than a Longan. Unlike the skin of Longan which is rather smooth, the skin of litchi is rough with some ripples. The skin is dark red.
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Mixed vegetable and meat hot pot ( Lau mam )
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At present, Lau mam folk dish in the past hundred years - become a luxurious specialty in the South. Chau Doc fish sauce made from fresh-water fish, a kind of sweet- smelling and greasy fish, which must be as required to have a delicious Lau mam dish.
Substances to prepare for Lau mam, including fresh food-stuffs such as snake-head fish, "keo" fish, pork, peeled shrimps, eel, beef, and so on, accompanied with at least 10 kinds of vegetable, sometime amounting to 24 kinds of vegetable. They include water-lily, egg-plant, balsam-apple, straw mushroom, bean sprouts, chilly, etc.
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Vietnam War photo book debuts
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Vietnam News Agency photojournalist Chu Chi Thanh has published a photographic account of the Vietnam War, with introductions and footnotes in English and Vietnamese. Entitled “Memories of the War,” photographs in the book were taking in North Vietnam between 1967 and 1973. Many of the photographs have yet to be seen by the public. Thanh said he wanted to remind young people across the world not only of the suffering and hardship that was experienced during the war, but also the heroism and magnanimity. He said he also wanted to give American veterans an honest no-holds-barred account of the war, which began in 1954 and ended in 1975. "I myself learnt a lot about the war through the lens of a young war photographer who was little more than 20 years old at the time and experienced the war from a Vietnamese perspective," Thanh said. The artistic power of the photographs in the book lies in their unembellished warts-and-all honesty, poet Huu Thinh said. "Through it, we can see both artistic creativity and publicity. It is a factual account and yet at the same time it represents the soul of an artist." With the support of HCM City Museum of War Remnants, photos in Thanh's book have been exhibited in a number of southern provinces and cities over the last two years, with visitor numbers reaching 500,000 annually, according to Huynh Ngoc Van, the museum's director. "From the critical viewpoint of the lens and Thanh's access as a war correspondent to all corners of the North, we can truly see and experience, as he did, the US air war of destruction against northern Vietnam from the 17th parallel northwards," Van said. At the end of the book, Thanh included private letters written by family members, friends and colleagues, which give a further incite into the war-time sentiments of those unwillingly caught up in the struggle for freedom. SourceVNA
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Australian, Vietnamese firms strike coal export deal
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Australia's Environmental Clean Technologies Ltd. (ETC) has signed a multi-million dollar deal with Vietnam's Thang Long Investment and Commercial Joint Stock Company (TinCom) to export processed brown coal to Vietnam. According to Melbourne-based technology company, the deal enables ECT and TinCom’s joint venture Victoria Coldry Pty Ltd. to export 2 million tons of Coldry pellets a year from early 2014, expanding up to 20 million tons a year in its first decade of operations. Under the agreement, ETC will provide a license for its technology to enable brown coal to be transformed into environmentally cleaner black coal equivalent pellets. Meanwhile, TinCom will provide US$100 million in first stage equity finance, representing one of the largest investments by Vietnam in Australia. ECT and its Vietnamese partner plan to build a processing plant in the Australian state of Victoria's Latrobe Valley. The Coldry plant is expected to be fully operational by late 2013 or early 2014. The deal was formalized Friday as part of a visit to Australia by Vietnam's Minister of Planning and Investment Vo Hong Phuc to co-chair the 9th Australia-Vietnam Joint Trade and Economic Cooperation Committee with Australia's Trade Minister Simon Crean in Melbourne. "It is about Australian technology being used to deliver a more environmentally sensitive energy solution to the people of Vietnam – a small but important contribution to the global effort to reduce carbon emissions," Crean said Friday. "Vietnam is buying the Australian resource but also, importantly, investing in the Australian technology to lower the carbon footprint," he added. According to the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, two-way trade value between Australia and Vietnam in 2009 was AUD6 billion. Source:tuoitrenews
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Vietnam catches ‘the feve
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The streets are awash with the jeers and cheers of football-crazy fans crying both for joy and desperation With the group stage almost over and the Jabulani balls set to roll through the elimination round of the World Cup, Vietnam has been bitten bad by the football bug, and millions upon millions are infected. Nguyen Phuoc Thien said he has yet to miss a World Cup game this year, despite his busy study schedule. “It’s fun to enjoy all the matches and evaluate each team to guess the winners of each round and the future champions,” said the 22- year-old economics student in Ho Chi Minh City. Thien said he is always a football fan, not just during the World Cup like so many others. He often watches games live with his friends at the HCMC Youth Cultural House because he said he loves the exciting atmosphere with the crowd. The atmosphere has been nearly recreated on streets across the city these days, where it is easy to feel the feverish infection afflicting sports fans on every corner and in every shop. The joyful and disappointed cries of the crowds from street-side eateries and beer houses can be heard after each attack, goal, or any other dramatic moment during any game. Even seemingly boring matchups attract rowdy drinkers swept up in the cup. A recent survey by US-based researcher The Nielsen said Vietnamese were the second biggest football fans in Asia. More than half of Vietnamese respondents declared themselves followers of the game, making them the second most avid fans in the Asia Pacific region, according to a survey by The Nielsen Company released on the opening of the World Cup on June 11. The most avid follower in Asia was Indonesians, where 54 percent of those surveyed declared themselves fans, compared to Vietnam’s 52 percent. Marcus, an Australian tourist, said he was surprised by the World Cup atmosphere when he arrived in HCMC for a four-day visit on June 17. “You can watch the games everywhere at a restaurant or a café. It’s really cool!” he said, adding that watching the games with the excitement of the streets had become an unexpected but indispensable part of his Vietnam travels. Pham Van Son, the owner of a restaurant in HCMC’s Go Vap District, said he had bought a projector with a large screen to attract more customers during the World Cup. “Many people often bet for fun with each other... and the loser will pay for food and beer at the end of the game,” he said. Restaurants and bars that did not broadcast the cup were empty during the tournament, he added. “Even roadside eateries have small TVs broadcasting the matches and attracted dozens of customers every match.” There’s gambling, then there’s gambling Dao Van Kha, director of an office interior decoration company in HCMC, said he had been enjoying the World Cup by gambling small wagers with his friends and colleagues at restaurants around the city. He said they often ordered food and drinks and the losing punters would pick up the tab. “It’s more exciting to watch it that way as we follow the games and support our favorite teams,” he said. He added that he was more interested in the World Cup and Vietnam’s international games rather than domestic leagues due to the quality of the matches. But gambling is not all just fun and games and is illegal in Vietnam. HCMC police on June 17 busted a gambling den in Tan Binh District, arresting 59 people involved in illegal betting on a World Cup match between South Korea and Argentina. Truong Tri Dung, the den’s ringleader, confessed that he had organized illegal gambling several times over the course of this year’s World Cup. He said he oversaw bets worth nearly US$7,000 each. Such gambling houses have bankrupted many people, and at least two recent suicide attempts in the city have been attributed to debts incurred during World Cup gambling. On June 20, passers-by on the banks of Saigon River in Binh Thanh District found a 30-year-old man clinging to a buoy in a swift current crying for help. Nguyen Van Chuc, a guard who was on duty watching the buoys in the area, swam to rescue the man. Chuc said the man denied that he had attempted to commit suicide, but one of his relatives said he was a football gambling addict and had been unable to repay heavy gambling debts. The relative presumed the debt had prompted him to commit suicide by drowning himself in the river. Chuc also said his brother, a fisherman on the Saigon River, had rescued another man on June 15 who had also attempted to commit suicide after losing large bets on World Cup matches.
An eatery on Ho Chi Minh City’s Nguyen Trung Truc Street projects a live World Cup match on the sidewalk. A recent survey found that half of Vietnamese respondents declared themselves football fans.
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Da Lat to become bigggest blossom spot in Southeast Asia
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Things are blooming in Da Lat. By the end of this year, nearly 17,000 cherry trees will be planted around a lake in the city already famous for its flowers. The Tuyen Lam Lake Resort Zone's five year plan will install 60,000 such trees along its shores, making Da Lat the largest cherry blossom destination in Southeast Asia. The 365 hectares lake is already a major tourist destination, boasting spas, golf courses, villas, conference halls and artists’ clubs. Cherry trees will be planted amid an existing stand of aged pines. Nguyen Xuan Thanh, chief manager of Tuyen Lam Lake Tourism Zone, said the cherry blossoms will add a special green space to the area. Most of the funds for the project came from individuals and private organizations.
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Forex market stable, no dollar shortage: official
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Vietnam’s foreign exchange market has been stable sine March and commercial banks have a surplus of dollars, a central bank official said, rejecting dollar shortage concerns. “All banks reported that foreign exchange demand has not increased rapidly recently,” Nguyen Quang Huy, director of the State Bank of Vietnam's foreign exchange department, said in an interview published by the Vietnam News Agency Thursday. “Rumors about companies hoarding US dollars on forex rate concerns are groundless,” he said. Banks now have plenty of dollar funds, Huy said, noting that they have made dollar swap deals with the central bank worth a total of around US$600 million. All sources of forex inflows have been rising this year, including foreign investment, overseas remittances and tourism revenues, he said, citing figures from the central bank. Overseas remittances, for instance, are expected to reach $3.6 billion after rising 30.5 percent in the first quarter, he said. “Together with a determination in curbing the trade deficit, the increase in foreign exchange inflows will help the government improve the country’s balance of payments this year,” Huy said. Loans rose 1.86 percent in May alone, during which period dollar loans rose 3.16 percent, according to the central bank. As interest rates on dollar loans were lower than the rates on dong loans, many companies shifted to dollar loans, Huy said. However he said the growth of dollar loans was not too high and still “within control.”
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