A glimpse into eating and entertaining customs on the lunar New Year festival (Tet) across Vietnam.
![]() Traditional cakes and jams ![]() Steamed glutinous rice with Gac flesh and bamboo sprout soup ![]() Yellow apricot flowers, watermelons and kumquat trees ![]() A five-fruit tray which presents hopes for happiness and prosperity A traditional food tray for Tet ![]() La dong, sticky rice, green beans, dried bamboo sprouts and mushrooms are sold at a year-end mountain market. ![]() The village of Tranh Khuc, which specialises in making Banh chung(square sticky rice cake), becomes busy ahead of Tet Banh tet la cam, a specialty of the people in the Mekong Delta of Can Tho city on Tet ![]() Dai Hoang braised fish in Ly Nhan, the northern province of Ha Nam ![]() Peach flowers in Nhat Tan ![]() Le Duc Giap, a farmer in Thanh Oai district, Hanoi, has succeded in grafting 5-Tet fruit trees - pomelos, oranges, mandarins, kumquats and Buddha’s hands. ![]() Peach flowers and kumquat trees are sold at the flower market on Hang Luoc street, Hanoi. Writting calligraphy letters on a spring day ![]() Nguyen Dang Che in Dong Ho village, Bac Ninh province, Hanoi, gives final touches to a painting of chickens. Dong Ho folk paintings are much sought after in the north for Tet decoration. ![]() Southern artisans make a fruit dragon to welcome Tet |
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