Wrapped in leaves and filled with glutinous rice, green beans, and pork belly, it symbolizes family unity and ancestral veneration. The dish, boiled for 12 hours over a wood fire, has been prepared ...

Exhausted after 12 hours of cooking, Nguyen Thi Thuy Hong gently unpeels the last of five leaves encasing a squishy, sticky rice cake known as "banh chung" -- a Lunar New Year delicacy in Vietnam. The ...

Slanted Door chef Charles Phan was known for loving smoke, not skimping on spice, and having plenty of fun with Vietnamese cuisine. This soup — which has an intense chicken flavor accented by ...

Many international students in Vietnam were excited to write calligraphy, wrap banh chung (square sticky rice cakes), join year-end parties, and play traditional folk games in central Da Nang City to ...