Northwestern specialty thang co now available in Saigon Thanh Duong Those who have visited northwestern Vietnam might have heard about or tasted an exotic dish of the region: thang co. Claimed to be a traditional dish of Mong ethnic minority, thang co is a mixed soup consisting of horse meat and organs, vegetables and herbs. Tourists to Sapa in Lao Cai Province can easily find a place at a market session to try thang co. Local vendors make the dish in a large frying pan on a burning charcoal stove. Horse meat and organs are put into the pan for stir-frying at the same time before water is poured over and the mixture is cooked for hours. Other ingredients added to the dish include cinnamon, anise, lemon grass, and ginger. Though it is popular in the northwest, it is difficult to find a place in Saigon to eat thang co. Therefore, Son Dep Trai restaurant in Phu Nhuan District has attracted the attention of gourmets since it began putting this dish on the menu. The restaurant’s … [Read more...] about Northwestern specialty thang co now available in Saigon
Thang long menu
New menus at Central Restaurant
New menus at Central Restaurant By Dat Tien in HCMC The Liberty Central Hotel near Ben Thanh market in HCMC has added some new menus to its Central restaurant this month. The new vegetarian menu and Hanoi-Thang Long menu include typical northern tastes such as steamed snail with ginger leaves, salads of chicken and banana flowers, bun thang (a kind of noodle soup), La Vong pasted fish and areca flower sweet soup. Between 6:30 - 8:30 p.m., diners can enjoy ethnic musical instrument performances of dan tranh (16-chord zither) and dan bau (monochord). The Liberty Central Hotel under management of Que Huong Liberty Joint Stock Company is a modern four-star hotel with 139 rooms that opened in February. The hotel’s Central Restaurant has150 seats and serves Western, Asian and Vietnamese specialties and fine wines. On September 21, the restaurant will present the Moon Night Buffet accompanied with circus and jugglery performances to mark the Mid-Autumn Festival. During the party, … [Read more...] about New menus at Central Restaurant
Bui Cong Duy’s performance and painting auction to raise funds for children
The Sofitel Metropole Hanoi hosts a charity concert to raise funds for children with eye problems this evening with the participation of famous artist Bui Cong Duy and his friends. The performance will include compositions by Chopin, Mozart, Haydn, Dvorak, Tchaikovsky and Bizet in the Thang Long hall. The event is organised by the Sofitel Metropole Hanoi and the Association of Organizing Charity Concert Evenings. As said, a normal eye operation costs at least US $80. Notably, chef Andre Bosia will prepare a special menu to treat participants at the cost of US $55 each. The programme starts at 18.30. Also today, “An evening of Smiles” will take place in the Park Hyatt in Ho Chi Minh City. Several paintings will be auctioned this evening to raise funds for charity activities carried out by the Operation Smile. This is the 11 th time the Operation Smile has launched such an auction. According to Kenneth M. Atkinson, the president of the donors’ council of the … [Read more...] about Bui Cong Duy’s performance and painting auction to raise funds for children
“Hanoi’s cuisine always makes me surprised”, Swiss chef
“The Food of Vietnam”, a bilingual book in Vietnamese and English, written by Swiss chef, Marcel Isaak, and Vietnamese chef, Trieu Thi Choi, was released in 1998 and it wasn’t long until it became a best seller on ebay.com and amazon.com. Having stayed in Vietnam for nearly 20 years with a dream of exploring Vietnam’s food culture, Marcel Isaak has had a close attachment to his favourite job as a chef at a restaurant in Hanoi. He has showed his appreciation of Vietnamese food. “The Food of Vietnam”, co-authored by Trieu Thi Choi, was published in 1998, at that time a handful of foreigners knew anything about Vietnamese food. Asked about what inspired a Swiss chef to go to Vietnam, only to fall in love with the Vietnamese cuisine, Marcel Isaak recalled that it was back in 1994 when he found a passion to explore a new feature - food. Living and working in Ho Chi Minh City gave him more opportunities to be close to the people, the culture and the … [Read more...] about “Hanoi’s cuisine always makes me surprised”, Swiss chef
ART & ENTERTAINMENT IN BRIEF 28/12
Vietnam’s Next Top Models in Singapore The best four candidates of ‘Vietnam’s Next Top Model’ this year have posed for fashion photographs and performed on catwalk in Singapore. For the first time, these girls had the chance to improve their knowledge and skills with the help of foreign professionals. While staying there, the Vietnamese candidates are expected to learn more about the working environment of international professional models. The 13th episode of ‘Vietnam’s Next Top Model’ series will be aired on national channel VTV3 at 8pm on January 1, 2012. RoK provides 3.5 mln USD for Hue master plan A RoK-funded project to improve the master plan for Hue city is underway in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue, said an official. Jointly launched by the Hue municipal People’s Committee and the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA), the project will run until July, 2013 at a total cost of 3.75 million USD. Of this, 3.5 … [Read more...] about ART & ENTERTAINMENT IN BRIEF 28/12