Unique Specialties for lunar New Year festival

A glimpse into eating and entertaining customs on the lunar New Year festival (Tet) across Vietnam.

Traditional cakes and jams (Photo: VNA)

Steamed  glutinous rice with Gac flesh and bamboo sprout soup (Photo: VNA)

Yellow apricot flowers, watermelons and kumquat trees (Photo: VNA)

A five-fruit tray which presents hopes for happiness and prosperity (Photo: VNA)

A traditional food tray for Tet (Photo: VNA)

La dong, sticky rice, green beans, dried bamboo sprouts and mushrooms
are sold at a year-end mountain market.(Photo: VNA)

The village of Tranh Khuc, which specialises in making Banh chung(square sticky rice cake), becomes busy ahead of Tet (Photo: VNA)

Banh tet la cam, a specialty of the people
in the Mekong Delta of Can Tho city on Tet​ (Photo: VNA)

 Dai Hoang braised fish in Ly Nhan, the northern province of Ha Nam ​(Photo: VNA)

Peach flowers ​in Nhat Tan (Photo: VNA)

Le Duc Giap, a farmer in Thanh Oai district, Hanoi, has succeded in grafting 5-Tet fruit trees - pomelos, oranges, mandarins, kumquats and Buddha’s hands. ​(Photo: VNA)

Peach flowers and kumquat trees are sold at the flower market on Hang Luoc street, Hanoi. (Photo: VNA)

Writting calligraphy letters  on a spring day (Photo: VNA)

Nguyen Dang Che in Dong Ho village, Bac Ninh province, Hanoi, gives final touches
to a painting of chickens. Dong Ho folk paintings are much sought after in the north for Tet decoration.​(Photo: VNA)

Southern artisans make a fruit dragon to welcome Tet ​(Photo: VNA)

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