In recent days, Hue beef noodle soup has been mentioned again. The first is the strange but happy news when in April, a special dish of the Ancient Capital has been introduced on the menu of the schools in Saijo City (Japan).

After long rain, when the cold is still lingering in the wind, green moss has grown on rocky beaches and concrete embankments along the coast of Thuan An and Hai Duong... In an afternoon of golden sunlightin spring, I went to the sea, sitting by the green algae, listening to the sea waves whispering by the rocky shore and I had a strange feeling at easy.

Few people think that common fishy ingredient can be used to make that strange che (a sweet dish). But more than that, in Minh Mang’s era, Thai Y Vien (the Medical Institute) studied and adjusted the ingredients to make it one of the 25 royal sweet dishes.

Not many people have noticed a special thing in this winter in Hue: For the first time ever, in the rainfall updates of the Provincial Commanding Committee for Disaster Prevention and Search & Rescue appears a very strange place, which is Quan Tuong Dai (the Imperial Observatory) in Hue Imperial City. The three words “Quan Tuong Dai” being read out on a rainy day sounds melancholy as if old friends saw each other once again after such a long time.

It is not too strange for tourists to Hue that the cemetery, a resting place of 24 eunuchs, lies on a little hill next to Tu Hieu Pagoda.