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Dogs in Vietnam: Friends or food?

January 28, 2015 by tuoitrenews.vn

HANOI – Signs at two patio cafés here in my walkable patch of Tay Ho District have caught my eyes. Perhaps they are signs of change.

>> An audio version of the story is available here

First, I noticed some curious words scrawled on a white-board lunch menu: a dish that featured “false dog meat.” Hmm. Is this for people who tried thit cho (dog meat) and liked it – but now feel guilty about the real thing? And what sort of meat is it really? Thit meo (cat meat)? Thit chuot (rat meat)? Around the corner, my curiosity was piqued by a sign that said Dodo Coffee Store above a line drawing of two dogs.

Dodo, I have since learned, is the name of a Golden Retriever who belongs to Nguyen Minh Ngoc, the proprietor of what, to my knowledge, might be Vietnam’s first café that expressly caters to people accompanied by their pooches. Ngoc said she opened her place because so many cafés did not welcome Dodo.

Perhaps there are pooch-friendly bistros. But certainly there are more places with a thit cho theme.

The Vietnamese taste for dog meat is a source of culture clash. At times the criticism is over the top. A couple of years ago, an American journalist with impressive credentials embarrassed himself by penning an infamous, bizarre essay that conflated the Vietnamese appetite with an “aggressive” culture that resulted in a history or warfare – as though it was Vietnam that invaded China, Japan, France and the U.S. over the years.

While I have no interest in sampling dog meat, be it true or false, I don’t begrudge the culinary tastes of countries. Ngoc says that she often hears Vietnamese who argue that there is no moral difference between eating chicken or beef and eating dog or cat.

Yet it also seems clear that Ngoc is among a growing number of Vietnamese, probably numbering in the millions, who would agree with the sign that appeared at a recent dog show in Hanoi: “Dogs are friends, not food.”

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Two dogs ‘get acquainted’ with each other at the “Vietnam Dog Show 2014” in Ho Chi Minh City. Photo: Tuoi Tre

My wife took two of our three children to the show in part because the kids really want a pet puppy to call their own. When I was growing up, our family included a dachshund named Heidi and later a mutt named Fanny. I was perhaps five or six years old when I woke up to discover that Heidi was giving birth to a litter in the box just a few feet from my bed. Our pets were more than just playmates; they helped us understand life in various ways.

Ngoc said her family always had dogs, cats and song birds as pets. If one takes a purely utilitarian view of potential sources of protein, it seems obvious that dogs and cats provide psychic benefits to homo sapiens that most creatures simply can’t provide. Perhaps it’s possible to cuddle with chicken, steer or halibut, but how many people actually do it? Have you ever heard of a “watchcow”?  How many chickens can fetch a Frisbee? A friend of mine who was going through a tough time once told me how his dogs were his only source of uncritical devotion. The Asia Canine Protection Alliance, founded in May 2013, is pushing for change, calling attention to the commercial trafficking of dogs as meat from Thailand to Vietnam. As Vietnam grows more affluent, more Vietnamese are keeping dogs as pets. Sometimes dozens show up at a small park in Tay Ho on a weekend day. There are also satisfying news reports about how criminals caught stealing dogs are sometimes getting a taste of street justice. Dine on dog if you must, but a crime is a crime.

Dodo, the café, is doing its part. Now Dodo the dog counts Domi the Dalmatian as a friend. Ngoc said she traveled 200 kilometers and paid three million dong for Domi, having witnessed how she was cooped up indoors and hearing plans to butcher the dog. They’ve been joined by Qiu Qiu, a grey-eyed husky whose owner had planned to abandon him to the streets when he left Hanoi. Ngoc keeps some poodles on the premises as well. Sometimes she has to lock up the males if a mature female shows up, because dogs do have a way of being dogs.

We’re looking forward to the day when we’ll walk our pooch down to meet Dodo and the gang.

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Cham ethnic people in Ninh Thuan joyfully celebrate Kate Festival

October 16, 2020 by en.nhandan.org.vn

One day before opening, local Cham and Raglai ethnic people gathered at Po Nugar temple in Huu Duc hamlet and Po Rome in Hau Sanh commune, Ninh Phuoc district to join a procession of the Goddess Po Inu Nagar – the Holy Mother of the Cham community in the Southern Central region.

On behalf of the Cham ethnic community, elders expressed their gratitude to the ancestors and prayed for favourable weather, abundant crops and prosperity.

While the elders prepared offerings for the rituals and conducted traditional rites such as bathing and clothes changing for the Holy Mother, youngsters livened up the atmosphere with traditional songs and dances.

At the event, leaders of Ninh Thuan province extended their greetings to the Cham ethnic community on their traditional festival, expressing their belief that Cham people will continue joining hands to successfully realise provincial socio-economic development goals.

On the three following days, Cham ethnic people visit and extend their best greetings to each other. Joyfully activities are also being staged across the Cham people’s community on the occasion.

The Kate Festival is one of the biggest festivals in Vietnam. It was recognised as a national intangible cultural heritage by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism in 2017.

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Fashion brand utilises traditional materials

April 13, 2021 by en.nhandan.org.vn

After three-years of operation, theMay has gained a position in the country’s fashion industry and received high appreciation from customers both at home and abroad. It was recently honoured as the Best Jewellery Brand in 2020 in a vote by Vietnamese fashion lovers.

With the aim of promoting and safeguarding traditional crafts, theMay has maintained a close connection with local craftsmen by hosting training classes and exhibitions from handmade jewellers as well as auctions to raise funds for the Centre for Community Development under the Vietnam’s Union of Science and Technology Associations.

Born in Gia Lai province, Thanh Van came up with the idea of founding theMay when she lived and worked and Japan. Whenever she met international friends and colleagues, she found that she a few options in respect of giving typical products from Vietnam as souvenirs to them.

In addition, her trips to regions across Vietnam has helped her realise the huge potential for making products inspired from traditional “materials”, particularly the hand-woven brocade cloth of ethnic minority groups.

After much thought, Van decided to quit her job at one of the biggest economic corporations in Japan and returned to Vietnam to found theMay.

It is not easy to start a business, and it is even more difficult to deal with one involving a traditional craft. In the initial days, Van and her colleagues had to spend a lot of time and effort making field trips to and conducting research on indigenous culture and how to embedding traditional materials into modern designs in order to incorporate their products’ into modern life.

Through the field trips, Van’s team decided that many weaving techniques of ethnic groups are being lost since local skilful craftsmen are aging while the young generations have shown little interest in preserving their traditional crafts.

theMay was founded by Vu Thi Thanh Van with the aim of promoting and safeguarding traditional crafts. (Photo: themay.vn)

Colourful clothes from the brocade not only reflect the skilfulness of the artisans but also the essence of the Cham ethnic group’s history and culture. TheMay’s design team, who received methodical training on arts and fashion, has worked to adapt popular patterns such as rice ears, corn ears, and stilt houses, into the brand’s products of bracelets, earrings, and necklaces.

Each collection of theMay is introduced to customers with detailed descriptions of the meaning of the patterns as well as the stories behind them.

Prominent among the collections include ‘Po Inu Nagar’, the ancestor of the Cham people who taught them how to weave brocade, and ‘The Moon and The Sun’, which are typical patterns in the daily life of Bahnar ethnic community in Gia Lai province.

The messages and descriptions conveyed through theMay’s collections have provided customers with a deeper understanding of their products and inspired pride in Vietnam’s cultural diversity. This has also partly contributed to help theMay’s brand appear on fashion magazines and fashion shows.

Currently, theMay has one store in Ho Chi Minh City; it also sells its products on many popular e-commerce channels and social networks.

Although the use of traditional materials in fashion products and home appliances is not a new trend, it is a growing way to create a stable income for people in craft villages. Thanh Van’s journey with theMay may face many obstacles but her job always receives much appreciation from the community thanks to its considerable benefits to the craftsmen.

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