These are 6 of 121 Vietnamese culinary dishes that have just been honored by the Vietnam Cuisine Culture Association (VCCA) as typical national dishes in phase I of a project titled "Building and Developing Vietnamese Culinary Culture into a National Brand Name”. All of these 6 dishes, including: Hue beef noodle soup, glutinous rice dumplings stuffed with roasted pork in sweet soup, mussel rice, banh loc (glutinous rice dumplings), vegetarian fig salad, and lotus-leaf-wrapped steamed rice; all are close to the gardens and paddy fields of the land.

Located 5 kilometers away from the center of Hue City to the North, Duc Buu village (Huong So Ward, Hue City) specializes in producing famous specialty dumplings of the ancient capital land, including: banh beo, banh loc goi (the Vietnamese clear shrimp and pork dumpling wrapped in banana leaf), banh nam, and banh ram it, etc.

On the afternoon of January 7, the People's Committee of An Dong Ward, Hue City held the opening ceremony of the program " Tet of Unity ", the contests of making banh chung, banh tet, and traditional crystallized ginger in 2023 at Dang Van Ngu Secondary School.

With theme “Land of Sacred Capital”, an exhibition of Hue artists is being held at Huong Art Life Gallery (533/7 Huynh Van Banh Street, Ward 13, Phu Nhuan District, Ho Chi Minh City) from 12th to 25th June.

Those who have fallen in love with banh ep (Hue pressed cake), either pupils, university students or adults, all are “mesmerized” by it – that is the comment of a youngster whom I came across at Ms. Kieu’s banh ep stall.

Only in Hue does banh bot loc become a specialty. Even the mention of its name makes Hue people (in and out of the city) and visitors crave...