Food
Bún chả: Hanoi grilled pork with noodles
Bún chả is Hanoi's grilled pork with rice noodles, herbs and a warm, tangy dipping broth. Here's a home recipe with patties and pork belly.
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Stories
Cô, chú, bác: how to address older adults in Vietnamese
Cô, chú and bác are family words Vietnamese speakers use for older adults in general. Here's who gets which word and why.
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Ông and bà: grandparents and elders in Vietnamese
Ông means grandfather and bà means grandmother, but both also mean Mr., Mrs. and even 'our ancestors.' Here's how they work.
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Thánh Gióng: the boy who grew into a giant
Thánh Gióng is the Vietnamese legend of a silent village boy who grew into a giant overnight to drive out invaders, then rode into the sky.
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Tấm Cám: the Vietnamese Cinderella
Tấm Cám is Vietnam's Cinderella story, with a lost slipper, a kind spirit and a heroine who keeps coming back to life in new forms.
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Water puppetry (múa rối nước): Vietnam's floating theatre
Múa rối nước is Vietnamese water puppetry: wooden puppets that dance on a pool, worked by puppeteers hidden waist-deep behind a screen.
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