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Unique Specialties for lunar New Year festival

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