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How do you say New Year's Eve offering, banh tet, and braised pork with duck eggs in English?

Báo Thanh niênBáo Thanh niên27/01/2025

Lunar New Year 2025 is coming. What is the English vocabulary for Tet dishes such as banh tet, braised pork with duck eggs...? How are Tet customs such as New Year's Eve offerings used in English?


The atmosphere of the Lunar New Year 2025 has filled everywhere. Every household is bustling to shop for specialties, fresh flowers, wrap banh chung and banh tet, and cook typical Vietnamese New Year dishes. In the North, boiled chicken, sticky rice, vermicelli and bamboo shoot soup, banh chung, and braised meat... are indispensable in the New Year's Eve meal. In the South, the New Year's Eve offering tray cannot lack banh tet, braised pork with duck eggs, and stewed bitter melon soup...

Below are English vocabulary about typical dishes on Tet holiday, vocabulary about traditional customs on the traditional Tet holiday of Vietnam suggested by Mr. Huynh Chi Vien, Executive Director of BHV English Center.

Cúng giao thừa, bánh tét, thịt kho hột vịt nói thế nào trong tiếng Anh?- Ảnh 1.

Seeing peach blossoms means seeing Tet

Vocabulary about Tet dishes often appears on the New Year's Eve offering tray

Word/phrase

Transcription

Meaning

Vietnamese square sticky rice cake

/ˈviː.et.nəˈmiːz skweər ˈstɪk.i raɪs keɪk/

Chung cake

Vietnamese cylindrical sticky rice cake

/viː.et.nəˈmiːz sɪˈlɪn.drɪ.kəl ˈstɪk.i raɪs keɪk/

Banh tet

Pickled small leeks

/ˈpɪk.əld smɔːl ˈliːk/

Pickled cucumber

Pickled onion

/ˈpɪk.əld ˈʌn.jən/

Pickled onions

Pickled bean sprout

/ˈpɪk.əld ˈbiːn spraʊt/

Cucumber

Braised pork belly with duck eggs

/breɪzd pɔːrk ˈbel.i wɪð dʌk eɡz/

Braised meat with duck eggs

Jellied meat

/ˈdʒel.id miːt/

Jellied meat

Steamed stuffed bitter melon

/stiːmd stʌft ˈbɪt̬.ɚ ˈmel.ən/

Bitter melon stuffed with meat stew

Vermicelli soup with dry bamboo shoot

/ˌvɝː.məˈtʃel.i suːp wɪð draɪ ˌbæmˈbuː ʃuːt/

Vermicelli soup with bamboo shoots

Boiled whole chicken

/bɔɪld hoʊl ˈtʃɪk.ən/

Whole boiled chicken

The five-fruit tray: custard apple, coconut, papaya, mango, fig

/ðə faɪv fruːt treɪ: ˈkʌs.tɚd ˈæp.əl, ˈkoʊ.kə.nʌt, pəˈpaɪ.ə, ˈmæŋ.ɡoʊ, fɪɡ/

Fruit tray: custard apple, coconut, papaya, mango, fig.

Spring rolls

/sprɪŋ roʊlz/

Spring rolls

Fried spring rolls

/fraɪd sprɪŋ roʊlz/

Spring rolls

Vietnamese style pork sausauge

/ˌviː.et.nəˈmiːz staɪl pɔːrk ˈsɑː.sɪdʒ/

Pork sausage

Vietnamese style fermented pork

/ˌviː.et.nəˈmiːz staɪl fərˈmen.tɪd pɔːrk/

Nem chua

Cúng giao thừa, bánh tét, thịt kho hột vịt nói thế nào trong tiếng Anh?- Ảnh 2.

Typical Southern New Year's Eve offering tray

Cúng giao thừa, bánh tét, thịt kho hột vịt nói thế nào trong tiếng Anh?- Ảnh 3.

Children learn to wrap Chung cakes for the Lunar New Year

Vocabulary about traditional New Year customs such as New Year's Eve offerings, picking lucky branches, writing New Year's parallel sentences

Word/phrase

Transcription

Meaning

Displaying apricot blossom/peach blossom

/dɪˈspleɪ.ɪŋ ˈeɪ.prɪ.kɑːt ˈblɑː.səm/ - /dɪˈspleɪ.ɪŋ piːtʃ ˈblɑː.səm/

Displaying apricot/peach blossoms

Arranging flowers for Tet

/əˈreɪndʒɪŋ ˈflaʊ.ɚz fər tet/

Flower arrangement

Paying New Year's visits to relatives

/ˈpeɪɪŋ nuː jɪrz ˈvɪzɪts tə ˈrel.ə.tɪvz/

Go to wish relatives a happy new year

Visiting a pagoda on New Year's Day

/ˈvɪzɪtɪŋ ə pəˈɡoʊdə ɑːn nuː jɪrz deɪ/

Going to the temple at the beginning of the year

Giving lucky money

/ˈɡɪvɪŋ ˈlʌki ˈmʌni/

New Year's lucky money

Receiving lucky money

/rɪˈsiːvɪŋ ˈlʌki ˈmʌni/

Receive lucky money at the beginning of the year

Making offerings to ancestors on New Year's Eve

/ˈmeɪkɪŋ ˈɔːfərɪŋz tə ˈæn.ses.tɚz ɑːn nuː jɪrz iːv/

New Year's Eve Offering

Sending the kitchen god to heaven

/ˈsendɪŋ ðə ˈkɪtʃən ɡɑːd tə ˈhev.ən/

Sending the Kitchen Gods to Heaven

Picking buds

/ˈpɪkɪŋ bʌdz/

Picking luck

Visiting and cleaning ancestors' graves

/ˈvɪzɪtɪŋ ənd ˈkliːnɪŋ ˈæn.ses.tɚz ɡreɪvz/

Tomb Sweeping

Writing New Year Couplets

/ˈraɪtɪŋ nuː jɪr ˈkʌp.ləts/

Write Tet couplets



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