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Tet Then and Now: How Vietnamese New Year Customs Have Changed
From getting ready for Tet to welcoming and celebrating it, Vietnamese New Year customs have changed enormously as modern life has taken hold.
Vietnamese Tet in America: Easing Homesickness for the Flavors of Home
Tet shopping at the Phuoc Loc Tho market, making banh chung and preparing the Tet feast: these are the images of Vietnamese Tet in America for those living far from their homeland.
Eye-Catching Lunar New Year Cakes of the Chinese Community in Vietnam
Like the Vietnamese, the Chinese community cooks savory dishes and offers fruit to their ancestors at Lunar New Year. They also use sweet cakes in unique, eye-catching shapes as offerings to the gods and ancestors, each with its own meaning. Today some markets in Vietnam sell these cakes in the days leading up to Tet, drawing crowds of shoppers.
Discover the Tet Feast of Central Vietnam
Tet is a time of togetherness, when those living far from home get to return to their families and catch up around the Tet feast. Wishes for a new year of plenty, prosperity, comfort and happiness are expressed through the dishes on the Tet table.
Foods to Avoid at Tet for a Year of Good Fortune
Vietnam has many Tet traditions that are still kept today. Our elders taught that “if you worship, the gods will answer; if you abstain, good things will follow”, so there are many things to avoid eating in the first days of the year if you don't want the rest of the year to go wrong.
The Traditional Dishes No Tet Feast Is Complete Without
Tet is a time for the whole family to sit together, swap stories about the year gone by and the great things they achieved, or simply see relatives they haven't met in 365 days.
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