Tet holiday meal
Heritage•31/01/2025
Essentially, the traditional Tet feast remains largely the same as it is today, including green sticky rice cakes (banh chung), fatty pork, pickled onions, fried spring rolls (nem ran), chicken, bamboo shoot soup, pork sausage (gio lua), and gac fruit sticky rice (xoi gac). These are the most essential traditional dishes for Vietnamese people, creating a lavish, colorful, and prosperous feast for the new year.
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