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  • How to Soften Brown Sugar?
    08 21 2018

    How to Soften Brown Sugar?

    Brown sugar is an ally to the baker but a great annoyance when it has hardened.

  • Superstar Pastry Chef's 'Food Porn' Has Instagram Drooling
    08 06 2018

    Superstar Pastry Chef's 'Food Porn' Has Instagram Drooling

    When Cedric Grolet takes out his pastry knife, millions of mouths water.

  • Quảng noodles, cao-lầu, and Hoi An chicken rice might steal the heart of APEC visitors
    11 10 2017

    Quảng noodles, cao-lầu, and Hoi An chicken rice might steal the heart of APEC visitors

    Feature dishes from Hue, Da Nang, or Hoi An are significantly memorable based on their harsh taste and rustic flavors. Interestingly, they all share similar characteristics, which are either rolls or mix, and all spicy.

  • Northern Noodles: Bún Thang
    11 09 2017

    Northern Noodles: Bún Thang

    There are many kinds of noodles made with bún (rice vermicelli), among which the most prominent in the North is, perhaps, bún thang. Bún thang has been on festive tables in Hanoi for quite a long time.

  • Foodwise: Trying Thai Specialties in Son La
    11 04 2017

    Foodwise: Trying Thai Specialties in Son La

    Nom da trau (buffalo skin salad) and nhot xanh cuon bap cai (green elaeagnus latifolia) wrapped in cabbage, are unique and tasty specialties of the ethnic Thai group in the northwestern province of Son La.

  • Mushroom – The Representative Cuisine of the Fall: Imported Mushrooms
    10 26 2017

    Mushroom – The Representative Cuisine of the Fall: Imported Mushrooms

    Mushroom is the real “safe and organic” food.

  • Ly Son Island Is in Company
    10 21 2017

    Ly Son Island Is in Company

    Ly Son island in Quang Ngai province is so well known from all over the country about its single garlic cloves, a famous specialty because of its flavor, healing ability, and also its ridiculously high price on markets.

  • The Science of Slicing Garlic and Onions
    09 19 2017

    The Science of Slicing Garlic and Onions

    Garlic and onion slicing is a matter of chemistry and technique. Don't miss these tips on how to maximise their flavour to their full potential.

  • Weaver Ants’ Eggs – Specialty of Ham Ho
    09 11 2017

    Weaver Ants’ Eggs – Specialty of Ham Ho

    Whoever already has a crush on weaver ants’ eggs certainly have to know Ham Ho, Binh Dinh province. People have said that ants’ eggs are given special gifts because they’re delicious, exotic, and nutritious yet also so rare.

  • Little-Known Things About Phở
    08 15 2017

    Little-Known Things About Phở

    For years, Phở has been a representative of Vietnamese cuisine in the world. There are numerous types of Phở but the most famous one might be phở with beef in Ha Noi.

  • The Science of Sauce Reduction
    08 11 2017

    The Science of Sauce Reduction

    Reduction is the process of thickening a watery liquid using heat: don't miss these tips and cooking techniques.

  • Popularly Professional Knifes for Who-Loves-Cooking
    08 10 2017

    Popularly Professional Knifes for Who-Loves-Cooking

    As other forms of arts, artists need tools to perform their abilities, their talents, and essence of the art’s history just like artists must have colors or musicians must have instruments, cooks must play with their knives.

  • The Best Cocktails in the World
    08 03 2017

    The Best Cocktails in the World

    Backlit through bottles of spirits and cut crystal, the warm glow of a proper hotel bar has long served as a port in the storm for world travelers.

  • Around The World in Hot Weather Foods
    08 02 2017

    Around The World in Hot Weather Foods

    From China to Italy, Greece to US and Korea, here is a list of traditional foods people from around the globe eat when it's hot outside.

  • Caviar – Black Jewel for The Dinner Table
    07 15 2017

    Caviar – Black Jewel for The Dinner Table

    Caviar is a mysterious, special and nutritious luxury food. It is taken from sturgeon and considered one of ten products worldwide symbolising luxury and wealth.

  • 7 Basic Knife Skills You Need to Know
    06 21 2017

    7 Basic Knife Skills You Need to Know

    Here's another great collection of videos from the Institute of Culinary Education, this time focusing on knife skills.

  • Slicing Vegetables as Pro as Japanese
    05 31 2017

    Slicing Vegetables as Pro as Japanese

    Japanese culinary culture is one of the most worth learning cultures, not only because of their choices in ingredients but also their ways of preparing and slicing vegetables.

  • Rustic Countryside Food Full of Delightful Flavour
    05 19 2017

    Rustic Countryside Food Full of Delightful Flavour

    Ca phao – garden egg – is as important to Vietnamese as kim chi is to Koreans. It is a type of fruit that is often salted and served as a side dish in Vietnamese meals.

  • Crispy Fried Water Spinach Salad with Shrimp
    05 15 2017

    Crispy Fried Water Spinach Salad with Shrimp

    The research fellows on world cuisine have provided the following analysis: a good cook is only called a cook, but to become a chef one needs to know how to run the whole kitchen of a restaurant.

  • Vietnamese Food (And Drink) Mashups You Must Try
    05 13 2017

    Vietnamese Food (And Drink) Mashups You Must Try

    They’re creative, they’re unique, and, despite how they sound, they’re all delicious.

  • Fish Skin Salad
    05 12 2017

    Fish Skin Salad

    In the memories of Phu Yen’s old men, there was always soapfish in the last season of the year. It is a type of shark which has the-one-and-only delicious skin.

  • Garnishing – A Rare, Odd, And Meticulous Job Which Is Cash Cow
    05 12 2017

    Garnishing – A Rare, Odd, And Meticulous Job Which Is Cash Cow

    Displayed food in restaurant menus, in cookbooks, or on cooking shows always make the mouth watering. Indeed, those eye-catching images are result of the whole working crew and the most countable role is food stylist.

  • Anguillidae Fish Rolled in Piper Lolot
    05 11 2017

    Anguillidae Fish Rolled in Piper Lolot

    A French culinary magazine has analyzed the key difference between Vietnamese and Chinese cuisines in that Vietnamese dishes often combine “salty-sweet”, whereas Chinese dishes favor the match of “sour-sweet”.

  • Smelly but Delicious: The Dishes of Ninh Bình
    04 25 2017

    Smelly but Delicious: The Dishes of Ninh Bình

    Mắm tép, shrimp paste, and nem chua, fermented pork, may sound quite intimidating dishes, but don’t let the pungent smell prevent you from trying these interesting specialties of Ninh Bình Province.

  • Michelin Star Chefs in Ha Noi
    04 21 2017

    Michelin Star Chefs in Ha Noi

    Connoisseurs will have a chance to taste the flavours created by Michelin-starred chef Marc De Passorio in Ha Noi for a series of events hosted by the Sheraton Hanoi Hotel.

  • Taste Specialties of Central Vietnam Right in Hanoi
    04 19 2017

    Taste Specialties of Central Vietnam Right in Hanoi

    There are a lot of delicious dishes in central Vietnam, but the most popular specialties are beef noodle soup, grilled spring rolls and rice paper cake wrapped with pork meat. Now tourists can taste these dishes in Hanoi.

  • Medicine from Cucumber
    04 01 2017

    Medicine from Cucumber

    Over 4000 years ago, ancient Egyptians and Indians had used cucumbers as food and medicine.

  • Did sushi come from Japan? All you need to know about the beloved dish
    03 21 2017

    Did sushi come from Japan? All you need to know about the beloved dish

    The insider's guide to authentic sushi today, and the different forms it has taken since the 19th century.

  • Love for Delicious Banh Khoai Pancakes
    03 20 2017

    Love for Delicious Banh Khoai Pancakes

    When I was a little boy, I used to follow my grandma to go and release the fishing nets used for catching little shrimps in the canal which runs from the Ma River into the fields.

  • 7 must-try dishes in Danang
    03 18 2017

    7 must-try dishes in Danang

    Danang is a food paradise with a wide variety of classic dishes available from local restaurants and food stalls at bargain basement prices. Averie Nguyen picks out some of the must-try dishes.

  • How common ingredients transformed into 5 star dishes
    03 09 2017

    How common ingredients transformed into 5 star dishes

    From such common rural ingredients that once were known as food for the poor, now cooks have cherished and turned them into unique and remarkable dishes.

  • 7 highly-recommended eateries in Hanoi’s Tay Ho district you shouldn’t miss
    03 07 2017

    7 highly-recommended eateries in Hanoi’s Tay Ho district you shouldn’t miss

    Once a sleepy backwater, Hanoi’s Tay Ho district has rapidly metamorphosed into a buzzing neighbourhood. Here’s our insider’s roundup of the best restaurants and cafes in the area.

  • ‘Cocooned’ for tea, staying for dinner
    02 19 2017

    ‘Cocooned’ for tea, staying for dinner

    We call it ‘ăn quà’ or ‘quà chiều’ – a snack between meals or afternoon snack.

  • Stuffed, wrapped and ready to munch: How to select the perfect banh chung
    01 20 2017

    Stuffed, wrapped and ready to munch: How to select the perfect banh chung

    Looking for a delicious sticky rice cake to enjoy over the Lunar New Year? Here are four things you need to know.

  • Black tiger prawns wrapped in pork belly
    12 19 2016

    Black tiger prawns wrapped in pork belly

    A native of the Mekong Delta, Chef Tran Minh Dung creates Black Tiger Prawns Wrapped in Pork Belly, a dish bearing the special feature of the Southern Delta Region.

  • The Dance of Spices – the Road to Championship
    12 19 2016

    The Dance of Spices – the Road to Championship

    Spices and ingredients with pure Vietnamese characteristics were skillfully used in dainty dishes of Binh Quoi 1 resort (HCMC), which helped this team to seized the championship of The Golden Spoon contest 2016.

  • Vietnamese spices – A polyphonic concert
    12 13 2016

    Vietnamese spices – A polyphonic concert

    “Chef of the Century” Eckart Witzigmann had an impressive look at Vietnamese spices and he stated that they were a whole harmonic blend of multi-flavors and regional features.

  • Stewed chicken with pink mandarin
    11 26 2016

    Stewed chicken with pink mandarin

    The chefs in Dong Thap Province cook chicken with pink mandarin so as to obtain the pretty color broth for New Year well-wishes, and the slightly sour flavor to dissipate the fatty foods or the early Spring piquant glass of wine.

  • Pork shank slow-cooked with hairy gourd
    11 26 2016

    Pork shank slow-cooked with hairy gourd

    Mr. Duong Duc Huan, Executive Chef of Hotel Majestic, is often called an artist not only because he draws very beautifully on plates with colorful sauces from vegetables, but also because he can combine different cooking techniques to create many colors, tastes and emotions ...

  • Steamed “gac” rolls stuffed with salmon fillet
    11 26 2016

    Steamed “gac” rolls stuffed with salmon fillet

    With rice, dexterous Vietnamese hands can make numerous delicious dishes. But the most interesting thing is that we can sit together to make “banh uot” and smell the pungent odor of timber, feel the vapor of fragrant rice and shout for joy when we ...

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