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
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What’s On Dec 29 – Jan 4
The Hanoi Times - Weekly exhibition, performance, cinema and dining out information at your fingertips. Plus a list of local festival of the month: time, locations and attraction Exhibitions Bookworm 4B Yen The St., Tel: 37478778 - Love and Marriage acrylic on diep paper by Le Chi Hieu, till Jan 25. Ho ChiMinhMuseum 19 Ngoc Ha St. Tel: 38230899 - Photo exhibition featuring the close friendship of Viet Nam and President Ho Chi MInh with late French communist party leader Jacques Duclors, till Dec 31. Viet Art Centre 42 Yet Kieu St., Tel: 39428962 - Vu Xuan Dong's painting exhibition entitled To River, till Dec 30. Maison Des Arts 31A Van Mieu St, Tel: 37478096 - Exhibit featuring the conservation between flowers and paintings-between Nguyen Thanh, a master of Japanese floral art, Ikebana and Nguyen Cam, Vietnamese contemporary painter. For each of 12 paintings of Cam, Thanh will propose an original and poetic floral arrangement. Museum of the Vietnamese Revolution 25 Ton Dan St .- … [Read more...] about What’s On Dec 29 – Jan 4
What’s On December 22 – 28
The Hanoi Times - The Weekly exhibition, performance, cinema and dining out information at your fingertips. Plus a list of local festival of the month: time, locations and attraction. Exhibitions Ho ChiMinhMuseum 19 Ngoc Ha St. Tel: 38230899 - Photo exhibition featuring the close friendship of Viet Nam and President Ho Chi MInh with late French communist party leader Jacques Duclors, till Dec 31. Viet Nam Museum of Ethnology Nguyen Van Huyen Rd. , Cau Giay Dis. Tel: 7562193- Pham Thi Doan Thanh's painting exhibition entitled Hamlet in the Valley, till Dec 31. Maison Des Arts 31A Van Mieu St, Tel: 7478096 - Photo, painting, video & sculpture exhibition entitled LongBienBridge's Memory, till March 29 2009. All artistic works featuring the author's souvenirs with the Long Bien bridge and Hanoi are welcomed and will be displayed at the Long Bien Festival on March 28-29, 2009. Museum of the Vietnamese Revolution 25 Ton Dan St .- Photos and objects exhibition featuring the roles and … [Read more...] about What’s On December 22 – 28
Art & Entertainment Highlights for November 13
Lacquer paintings explore daily life Four of the artists — Duong Sen (1949), Le Xuan Chieu (1956), Luong Khanh Toan (1955) and Nguyen Dang Khoat (1952), all aged between 57 and 64 — were born in North Viet Nam and later moved to HCM City. Ho Minh Quan (1961) is from Hue and Nguyen Dam Thuy (1967), the youngest and only woman in the group, is from Ben Tre. Her 23 large oil paintings reflect daily life and portray womanhood. Sen is a master of lacquer and has 33 works featuring the sea or life in the Mekong Delta. Khoat uses bright colors in his 29 oil paintings about the North featuring memories of his childhood. Toan has 10 40x60cm lacquer paintings depicting a variety of landscapes. He is not attending the show because of serious burn injuries caused while doing the works. Making a lacquer painting may take months depending on the technique used and the number of layers of lacquer. Each layer requires drying and polishing. When all the layers are applied the artist … [Read more...] about Art & Entertainment Highlights for November 13
What’s On February 9-15
The Hanoi Times - Weekly exhibition, performance, cinema and dining out information at your fingertips. Plus a list of local festival of the month: time, locations and attraction. Exhibitions Maison Des Arts 31A Van Mieu St, Tel: 37478096 - Exhibition entitled Portraits with 18 artworks of water colour on silk by Consuelo Steley and 30 artworks of lacquer on canvas by Bruno Huckel, Feb 10-17. - Photo, painting, video & sculpture exhibition entitled LongBienBridge's Memory, till March 29 2009. All artistic works featuring the author's souvenirs with the Long Bien bridge and Hanoi are welcomed and will be displayed at the Long Bien Festival on March 28-29, 2009. All artistic works featuring the author's souvenirs with the LongBienBridge and Ha Noi are welcomed and will be displayed at the Long Bien Festival on Mar 28-29, 2009. Viet Art Centre 42 Yet Kieu St., Tel: 9428962 - Painting exhibition of Phan Cam Thuong featuring twelve animals, till Feb … [Read more...] about What’s On February 9-15