In Vietnam, Lunar New Year is called Tet. The full name is Tet Nguyen Dan. It means “feast for the first morning”. It is almost always celebrated on the same date as in Hong Kong and China.

It was supposed to be a holiday ceasefire. Instead, it became one of the most coordinated and devastating surprise attacks in modern warfare. In January 1968, the Tet Offensive turned the Vietnam War ...

Hong, 55, has laboured over the dish -- which must be boiled for 12 hours over a wood fire -- almost every year for the last four decades. "We can buy ready-made banh chung but it doesn't create ...

“Voyage to Vietnam: Celebrating the Tét Festival” was created and is circulated by Children’s Discovery Museum of San Jose.