People visit Dong Ba Market not only because they can buy myriad goods and local specialties, but because in their hearts it is a symbol of Hue’s culture. Dong Ba is both the name of the largest market in Hue and of a small canal connecting the market with the busy river port of Bao [...]

When Hue natives living outside the city return to their homeland, they usually have sour shrimp. Tourists also make sure to buy some jars of sour shrimp before leaving Hue. Because of the national reputation of this dish, some cooks and merchants specialize in making sour shrimp. In the past, people made this dish at [...]

No one in the village Tay Ho (Hue) knows when the hat making began but everybody feels grateful to the job that feeds the whole village through ups and downs of history. Not rich is the village, and the people live mainly on farming work, but hat making helps them to live on between crops [...]

Unlike the painting genres of Dong Ho in Bac Ninh Province and Hang Trong in Hanoi, the paintings of Sinh Village in Huong Tra Dist, Thua Thien Hue Province, are very simple with plain glyphs and traditional colours, reflecting people’s innermost feelings, wishes and simple dreams. Sinh Village (its pen-name is Lai An) was located [...]

Bun bo (Beef noodle soup) at the very far end of the alleyway which makes for the local market. Like most of the stallholders here, she sets her table up in front of her opened house. In this case that’s next to the Banh khot seller. Her young son is clearly visible in the small [...]