Whenever I’m in the mood for a snacking cake, I reach for palm sugar and coconut cream to make one of my favorite childhood desserts, honeycomb cake (bánh bò thốt nốt). It’s one of the most popular ...
Happy New Year! Or as the Vietnamese say, Chuc mung nam moi! It’s the lucky year of the Dragon — those born between today and February 9, 2013, are predicted to live fortunate, prosperous lives. And ...
While its new bakery café is still nearing completion in Gretna at 433 Lafayette St., Dough Nguyener’s is already stirring things up with a king cake rife with Vietnamese flavor. Last year, Dough ...
Lunar New Year is full of sights and sounds. There is the popping of fireworks to ward off evil spirits, the lion dancers moving to the beat of drums and the red envelopes to give gifts to loved ones.
These floral cakes are a work of art. Her murder went unsolved for decades. DNA from paper bags now points to one of Colorado’s ‘most prolific serial killers’ I toured the White House to see Melania ...
Hong Nhu's restaurant in New York, USA, is attracting a large number of customers by adding many Vietnamese Lunar New Year specialties to its menu.
Remembering banh chung is, for many, the same as remembering Tet itself – the ancestral tradition and the warmth of family ...
King cake is great with coffee. King cake with Vietnamese style iced coffee flavor piped in? That’s a where-have-you-been-all-my-life combination. It’s one of the specialty king cakes making the ...
On the afternoon and evening of the 27th day of the Lunar New Year, many families in Ho Chi Minh City gathered around pots of ...
Through a quirk of timing, Portland went from having no bakeries from James Beard Award winners to having two over a single fortnight in June. That’s because, 13 days after Jinju Patisserie on North ...
Though living thousands of miles away from their homeland, many Vietnamese in the U.K. still make banh chung themselves every Lunar New Year (Tet), so that the fragrance of Tet remains present, even ...