Many people have chickens here. Eggs and chicken meat are widely used in dishes. The funny thing is that even people living in a big city like Hanoi have some (2 or 3 + rooster). I always find it funn...

Well, apparently, nobody wants to know about Valentin. Here it is : He was a catholic priest. The anti-catholic emperor Constantin forbade priests to marry couples; Valentin did it anyway and was exec...

Why don't you type "History of Vietnam" in Googles and read it ???? After the French defeat in Dien Bien Phu, the conference of Geneva split the country into two parts: the North, communist, and the S...

MONEY in a beautiful envelope, so much smarter than buying a gift that she might not like or have a use for ! That is what most people do in Vietnam, which explains the great number of guests invited ...

Definitely dinner. The day is over and you are relax

Generally, people are not bragging about their gold. Anyway, it is very much alive here. Women routinely buy small ingots as savings, which is very intelligent because, when something goes bad in the ...

The ones who do not celebrate are VERY wrong, it is one of the most pleasant occasions in a life. By the way, do you know who Valentine was and why he became a Saint ?

What do you think pople use to pay their purchases except in big stores ? CASH (or credit cards, but most mall shops and all streets vendors (small items, street restaurants, small markets vendors, et...

More and more people have one. It is prohibited over some historical areas such as Halong Bay (fortunately !!!!)

@danggang Yes, and, like in every such museums in the country, it explains the atrocities of the French, the Americans and the South-Vietnamese; North-Vietnamese atrocities ??? they were none, my Dear...

Unfortunately, Vietnamese are like every other tribe in the world, insisting in monkeying Americans. There was a nice times when Europeans wore nice clothes and Americans were mocked for their appalli...

Diversity not only from region to region, but mostly from many places within a region. This is due to the existence of 53 minorities, each of them ferociously preserving its culture. For example, in S...

@danggang There still are over 2 million Catholics in Vietnam, and they are extremely devoted, most of them going to church at least two or three times a day; A nice way to say "No" to communism !!!!

Scam ? They do like all people everywhere in the world, they give you a price and you bargain ! I am always amazed by people talking about scams here when they are scammed constantly in their own coun...

@pinkcherie Poor it was and very dirty as well. When I arrived in Hanoi in 2007, the streets were littered with trash, no longer. It has to be said to the defence of the people that the authorities di...