Grand Mercure Danang offers Mother’s Day buffet The Saigon Times Daily The Chinese brunch buffet at the Grand Mercure Danang’s Golden Dragon Restaurant is an opportunity for guests to show the love for their mothers this Mother’s Day, May 12 - PHOTO: COURTESY OF GRAND MERCURE DANANG HCMC - Grand Mercure Danang is putting on a Chinese brunch buffet at Golden Dragon Restaurant on May 12 to celebrate Mother’s Day. The starter and salad station emphasizes the freshness of the ingredients while the live station enhances aromas and warmth, stimulates the five senses, and increases the appetite with roasted chicken, caramelized pork belly with quail eggs, Greasyback shrimp with salt and chili, and stuffed calamari with pan seared mushroom and tomato sauce simply prepared and expertly executed on the spot. The live and hotpot stations offer a variety of meat, seafood and vegetables served with fresh and dried noodles. A must-try is the restaurant’s signature dim sum such … [Read more...] about Grand Mercure Danang offers Mother’s Day buffet
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Quang Nam sets up cuisine museum
Quang Nam sets up cuisine museum The Saigon Times Daily A bowl of mi Quang - PHOTO: VNA HCMC - The Culture, Sports and Tourism Department of Quang Nam Province has allowed Vinahouse Joint Stock Company to open the Quang Region Cuisine Museum, the Vietnam News Agency reports. The museum is located on National Highway 1A in Dien Minh Commune, Dien Ban District in the central province. It will be officially opened at Tet (Lunar New Year) next month. According to Phan Van Vinh, general director of Vinahouse, the museum displays well-known local dishes like mi Quang (Quang-style noodle soup) and pho san (noodle made from cassava starch). With more than 500 exhibits and documents at the museum, visitors can learn about the history of typical dishes of the Quang region. Local chefs famous for their Quang noodle soups have been invited to demonstrate how to prepare the dish at the museum. Mi Quang contains steamed rice noodles, fresh vegetables, poached pork, shrimp or … [Read more...] about Quang Nam sets up cuisine museum
Hotels and restaurants in HCMC offer mooncakes for Mid-Autumn Festival
Hotels and restaurants in HCMC offer mooncakes for Mid-Autumn Festival By Minh Tuan Sheraton Saigon Hotel & Towers’ mooncakes - PHOTO: COURTESY OF THE HOTEL HCMC - Hotels and restaurants across HCMC have launched their mooncake collections for the Mid-Autumn Festival, the second biggest festival for Vietnamese family reunion after the traditional Lunar New Year. Sheraton Saigon Hotel & Towers The Sheraton Saigon mooncake collection "Traditional & Artisanal" includes an assortment of eight handmade mooncake varieties, with or without egg yolk, ranging from timeless flavors of white lotus, pandan lotus, black sesame, mixed nuts or dried scallop XO to modern renditions such as coffee, green tea and cranberry to suit every taste bud. The Tower Box is priced at VND1,288,000 net per box of four 220-gram pieces, VND1,188,000 net per box of four 150-gram pieces while the Square Box costs VND1,088,000 net per box of four 220-gram pieces and VND998,000 net per … [Read more...] about Hotels and restaurants in HCMC offer mooncakes for Mid-Autumn Festival
Vietnamese agriculture, but not as you know it
Hoà’s pigs enjoy their natural habitat. - VNS Photo Khoa Thư Viet Nam News By Khoa Thư QUẢNG TRỊ - A herd of pigs runs up a high hill, in front of them, a vast farm spreads out, reaching the horizon. The image may be strange for most Vietnamese people, with the mindset that domestic livestock are usually kept in cages. Nguyễn Thị Hoà’s farm in Triệu Thượng Commune, Quảng Trị Province, offers pigs precious freedom that their fellow animals rarely enjoy. “We are the first and also the only farm in the whole area that rears pigs in their natural habitat,” Hoà said. “They find and eat whatever they like. They run as far as they can, to every corner of this 10 ha farm. Our pork, therefore, has distinct characteristics of colour, taste and balanced fat ratio that normal farms cannot offer,” she added. Pork, however, is not the only specialty offered by Hoà. Up to 1,500 chickens are also farmed on the space. Instead of simply pouring instant pre-mixed food out of bags, … [Read more...] about Vietnamese agriculture, but not as you know it
Charity Meal programme launched in HCM City
At the launch ceremony of the Charity Meal Project, 500 kilos of pork and 1,000 chicken eggs were presented to shelters, social welfare centres and nursing homes in HCM City and Cần Thơ. — VNS Photo Gia Lộc Viet Nam News HCM CITY — The Charity Meal Project on Tuesday was launched in HCM City to provide free pork, rice and other food items to shelters, centres and nursing homes that take care of people with disabilities and the elderly throughout the country. At the launch ceremony, 500 kilos of pork and 1,000 chicken eggs were presented to Thị Nghè Social Welfare Centre for Orphans with Serious Disabilities, Thạnh Lộc Social Welfare Centre for Paralysed People, Thiên Ân Shelter and Vinh Sơn Old People’s Nursing Home, all in HCM City, and the Cần Thơ Social Work Centre. The project’s volunteers visited the Thị Nghè Social Welfare Centre for Orphans with Serious Disabilities in HCM City’s Bình Thạnh District to cook with the centre’s staff. The meals were made with pork, … [Read more...] about Charity Meal programme launched in HCM City
Man makes his fortune from four-pawed friends
Hoàng Văn Tiến plays with his dogs on the farm.— Photos tienphong.vn Viet Nam News ĐẮK LẮK — Hoàng Văn Tiến, 27, starts the day on his dog farm by grooming his four-pawed Alaskan Malamute friend Nana. Tiến, from the Central Highland province of Đắk Lắk, said Alaskans are notable for their beautiful fur coats. As well as a grooming Nana’s coat every day, Tiến also has to ensure a healthy diet for his dog. The food requires different levels of nutrition depending on each stage of Nana’s development. When Nana was a puppy, Tiến fed him milk and calcium, but as he grew, the diet changed to include chicken, beef, vegetables and trứng vịt lộn (duck embyo eggs), Tiến said. It costs more than VNĐ1 million (US$44) to feed Nana each month, he said. Nana is one of 30 dogs in Tiến’s farm now, along with Huskies, Poodles, Pugs and Bulldogs, among them 15 females. Tiến earns about VNĐ500 million ($21,825) per year from selling their puppies, Tiền Phong (Vanguard) … [Read more...] about Man makes his fortune from four-pawed friends