Taro Soup (Canh Khoai Mon) Recipe

Taro soup with succulent flavor of taro in combination with ribs is really an irresistible delicacies during summer days. It is easy to make this delicious meal!

Ingredients:

400g pork spare ribs
400g taro
1tsp minced garlic
2 stalk spring onion: white part minced, green part chopped
1 tbsp cooking oil 
salt, pepper, seasoning powder, fish sauce to taste
1.5 liter water

Directions:
 

Chop ribs into 1.5-inch (4cm) pieces. Soak ribs in water for 15 minutes. Rinse and drain.  Marinade with 1 tsp minced garlic, 1 tsp minced spring onion (white part only), 1/2 tsp salt, 1/2 tsp pepper, 1/2 tsp seasoning powder. Mix well and set aside for 15 minutes. 

Cut taro into 1.5-inch cubes (3-4cm).

Heat the sauce pan on high heat, add in 1 tbsp cooking oil, then add the ribs and stir-fry until the color outside changes.
Add 1.5 liter water (6 cups) and bring to boil. Occasionally skim off the foam. When it boils, add taro and cook on medium low heat until the taro is soft (can easily pierce through with a chopstick).
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Ancient Hoi An - peaceful and tranquil emotion

If you want to explore and enjoy a space of the golden past of Vietnam, let visit Hoi An Ancient Town. May be the most attractive feature of this tourist destination is its “thinking of the past” beauty and peaceful moments which bring you unforgettable deeply emotions.

Ancient Hoi An - peaceful and tranquil emotion

In the 16 th century, Hoi An was one of the most crowded trading ports of the South East Asia. It was also an ideal market to exchange goods for the businesspersons of Japan, China, Thailand, India as well as a destination of the traders in remote countries such as Holland, Portugal, England… Hoi An, nowadays, is an ancient town of peaceful and tranquil life style beside the Hoai river. 

Here and there sounded up the voice of a hawker...

There are only small, quiet streets linking the ancient houses standing side by side and old pagodas which deeply imprinted the Japanese  and Chinese architectural style. The early morning with fresh air and tranquil space. Here and there sounded up the voice of a hawker, from the bicycles were slowly running and of people walking in the streets to do morning exercises. When the first sunrays showed down, the city became noisy a bit.

Clay souvenirs created by the young girls of Thanh Ha 
pottery craft village, Hoi An city.

Visiting Hoi An, you can sight-seeing the famous and beautiful heritages of the city on foot, by bicycle or xich lo. You can explore the peaceful life of the friendly and hospitable local residents. You will meet the lovely sellers at the souvenir shops with their bright smiles, warm and polite invitations. 

The hand-made bowls under the light sunsight of ancient Hoi An

Kind-hearted smile of a boat rower on Hoai river.

A peaceful bright corner in the night of Hoi An

It is worth paying a visit to stunning 100-egg resort

About 8km away from Nha Trang city, 100-egg resort with an area of 17 ha is really an ideal place for domestic and foreign tourists when having opportunity to pay a visit to Nha Trang.

Coming to 100-egg resort, you will be impressive with mud bath area and a system of 115 soaking pools in the shape of large eggs.

Looking down from the top, 100-egg resort becomes more striking when egg’s white shells and hearts of yellow mixed the blue color of trees on the hillside. Each is about 2 m in height and 1.8 m in diameter. Soaking yourself in pool and looking around, visitors will seem to be in the 100-egg forest.

In the egg forest, sometimes visitors will encounter some larger eggs, which are places for tourist take a drink. All the mud and herbal baths can accommodate 400 guests at the same time. In addition, there are also 49 herbal baths and 61 mineral mud baths. Each tub is for 3 people with 2m in height and 1.8 m in diameter.

Artificial waterfall near the pool is an outstanding point for the general perspective of the whole resort. It is a combination of the beauty of Da Dia rapids (Phu Yen) to appear strong and magnificent of forests and mountains of Central Highlands.

100-egg mud bath is a complex with the architecture of Champa culture. This resort has unique exciting services such as mud baths, herbal baths mineral mud baths…

ATTRACTIVE AND ADVENTUROUS NHA TRANG SEA SPORTS

In the summer, Nha Trang beach is very charming. According to international sports experts, Nha Trang is the only destination in Vietnam being able to develop all types of sea sports. 

Sea sports festival is considered as “a green message” of Nha Trang sea festival, took place every two years. Waking up before the sun rises, thousands of people flock to the sea to cheer athletes on.  There are many sports here such as swimming, shaking basket boats, diving, windsurfing, jet skiing, kayaking etc. The festival has a special attraction to everybody. Many tourists in the Northern or in the Southern of Vietnam pay a visit Nha Trang just in order to try playing water sports. They can experience interesting sports like parasailing or surfing. Even if  visting Nha Trang one time, most people enjoy playing sea sports in Nha Trang. Basket boats racing Parasailing Parachuting Jet skiing

A TRIP TO BAT TRANG CERAMIC VILLAGE

Visiting a traditional craft village along the Red River banks is a good way of escaping the busy life of the capital city and exploring the age-old ceramic craft making.

As a newcomer to Hanoi I find myself in daily awe of many people gathering around the sidewalk food stands, of the throngs of motorbikes winding and weaving their way up Hue city street and down Ba Trieu street, and of the intrepid tourists who confront – however timidly or courageously – the sensory overload that is the Old Quarter. Sometimes, however, every city dweller needs to escape the sound and the fury of downtown activity. If a city break is what you are after, the artisan village of Bat Trang, which lies about an hour’s leisurely drive from central Hanoi, is well worth trying – crossing over Chuong Duong Bridge and heading south on TL 195 to get out of the motorbike melee and into the fresh air with housing developments on the left and grazing cattle on the right coming into focus. After what feels like a little too long following road markings for Bat Trang, a large sign appears on the right with the name of this lovely village, which specialises in hand-made, hand-painted ceramics in all shapes and sizes. Upon our arrival, my girlfriend and I puttered around the streets with the dwindling afternoon light casting crisp silhouettes of power lines on chipping plaster walls the colour of lemon sherbet. There were women drinking tea in front of a cement mixer and a pile of bricks with the clear intention of filling the void left by a torn down building. We passed overflowing shops with ceramics of all sorts on offer. Our senses were bombarded by the meandering melody of mournful music, the strident scent of burning incense wafting out from the Buddhist temple, and a huge crowd of people with white headbands spilling out onto the streets after a funeral ceremony was just wrapped up. Inside the shops, the variety is incredible: tea sets, mugs, ash trays, plates, vases – small, large, and humongous. Then there are the ceramic figures of dogs, Buddha, Confucius, turtles, Bugs Bunnies, elephants, lions, eagles; you name it, they have it. A bit overwhelmed by the sheer quantity of shops, we tried one of the larger ones n the main street, Huong Xuan, where all manners of dishware are sold in both the traditional Chinese blue and white motif as well as in a range of contemporary styles and colours. We purchased a couple of pieces as gifts for people back home, but the best part was yet to come. The man in the showroom is a kind and welcoming individual, and if asked politely, he will allow paying customers to see the production facilities. In one part of the factory, a dozen or so women operate huge press machines, which hollow out lumps of fresh clay, turning them into vases or drinking vessels. From there, low wooden planks are loaded with fresh pieces and carried upstairs into the kiln room. Two kilns larger than some studio apartments I’ve lived in are packed with hundreds of pieces waiting to be fired. The perfectly uniform cups, saucers, and teapots arranged in repetitive rows and columns of gray clay forms are visually striking. The next room over is designated for painting and glazing. After the pieces come out of the kiln the first time, another dozen or so women paint intricate blue and white patterns and calligraphy on them with the narrowest of brushes. Be warned: the grace and ease with which the women apply complicated motifs to their ceramics can easily mesmerize; on our visit, we stood there slack-jawed for what must have been ten minutes before giving a little bow to the forewoman and heading outside. We hopped on our motorbike and headed back toward the city feeling eminently refreshed; we were ready once more to face the traffic and constant activity that assaults the senses in the city. If you are looking for a bit of time away, and you do not have a motorbike, you can take the 47 bus from Long Bien bus station for VND5,000 or you can take a taxi for around VND200,000 each way.                                                                                              Provide by Vietnam travel guide

Contemplating sparkling beauty of Phu Quoc island

Being in the southwest of Kien Giang province, Phu Quoc is the most biggest island in Vietnam with stunning scenery.

Spending three days discovering the island during three days, tourists will have a lot of unforgettable experiences, and memories.

There are two ways to go to Phu Quoc. Firstly, tourists go by plane from Hanoi or Ho Chi Minh City. Secondly, they can go by high-speed train.

As many people know, Phu Quoc is very famous for ridgeback dogs. The Phu Quoc Ridgeback dog is one of only three breeds that have a ridge of hair that runs along its back in the opposite direction to the rest of the coat. This breed’s ability is to run, jump, and swim faster than most other breeds. Also, ridgeback dogs are very adorable, especially puppies. 

Besides the special breed of dog, Phu Quoc is also well-known with pepper. Planting pepper appeared in Phu Quoc for hundreds year ago and it becomes traditional work in Phu Quoc. Phu Quoc pepper is spicy and hot, especially red pepper. Planting pepper in Phu Quoc is different from other places. The farmers rarely use chemical fertilizer. Every year, root of pepper tree is banked with new soil that is digged from garden edge in order to modify nutrition used or washed away. That way makes pepper trees grow naturally.

Coming to Phu Quoc, tourists can visit Ganh Dau - a communce in the northwest of Phu Quoc island with pristine beaches and charming landscapes. If not, tourists can go to Bai Dai beach (“the long beach” in Vietnamese) stretching 15 kilometers to the northwest. This is a beautiful beach with fine and clean sand and the ocean water with mild temperatures.

In addition, travelers cannot miss the most beautiful beach on the island – Sao beach. It deserves to be one of five most beautiful beaches in the world.

Travel experience in Da Nang during April 30 holiday

Known as the most liveable city in Vietnam, Da Nang attracts many tourists to visit every year. If you make plan to visit here for April 30th holiday, you should read the following interesting experiences.

Travel

Da Nang is a big, young and modern city with almost travel vehicles at airports, train stations, international port, crowded bus stations, so it is very convenient for you to get to Da Nang. If you want to be on the plane, it just takes about 1 hour for you to get to Da Nang from Hanoi or HCMC. However, plane ticket on this occasion is quite expensive and sold out, so you have to book tickets early.

It will be convenient and exciting if you decide to travel by high quality bus or car with VND 400,000/ turn. However, in these days, tickets are always sold out or more expensive.

Because Da Nang is quite big with many intriguing sights, so if this is the first time you have ever visited it, you can travel by taxi. Taxis here are in abundance.

If you want to save your money or explore scenery with free style, you can hire bicycles and motorcycles of hotel. And it is from VND 70,000 for bicycle and VND 120,000 for motorcycle per day. In addition, visitors can hire cyclo if you want to enjoy the night scene along the banks of Han River or take a stroll to enjoy the beauty of city.

Hotel

Da Nang has a lot of hotels from ordinary hotel to 5-star or luxury resorts along the coastline Pham Van Dong. Depending on the budgets, every visitor can give the right choice.

If you want to save your budget, you can rent guess houses at Hoa Khanh street, Lien Chieu district from VND 100,000 -200,000 per night. Also, you can find outlying hotels on Nam O Street with the price of VND 300.000 per night.

Hotel room rates on Dien Bien Phu or Hoa Khanh Street fluctuate from over VND 600.000. And nearer hotels cost from VND 1.000.000 to 3.000.000 per night on Bach Dang Street. However, because of too many tourists to Da Nang on occasion so if you should book rooms about 1 month ago causing room rates are also increased from 2 to 3 times.

Tourist places.

Da Nang has numerous destinations that are extremely attractive to most tourists coming here. Coming here, you definitely should not miss Khe beach- one of the most exotic beaches in Vietnam. You will be enchanted by blue water, the stretch of white sand and fresh seafood here.

The next destination is Marble Mountains, about 7m far from Da Nang center. The weather will be more pleasant if you visit Marble Mountains in the early morning or at 3 pm. Marble Mountains is majestic. From the top, you will see Da Nang overall. Here also many souvenirs by stone with affordable prices.

Linh Ung pagoda was built in Son Tra Peninsula al well as tourist attraction that you should not miss. This pagoda was built extremely elaborately. Linh Ung pagoda is famous for Mercy Goddess.

The pagoda has become a place of worshiping, living and learning of nuns, Buddhist, as well as being tourist attraction of tourists all around the country.

Ling Ung pagoda is a spiritual tourist attraction ò Da Nang city. At night, Linh Ung pagoda has become more beautiful and shimmering.

If you have time, you should come to Ba Na that is well known as the paradise. Certainly, you will not forget the feeling of floating when sitting in cable car.

In addition to cool air, there are many entertainment areas and the largest buildings with incredibly beautiful Western architecture. In order to enjoy all the beauty of Ba Na, you should stay here for one night. If you want to explore culture here, you should visit Cham Museum situated in the city center. 

The beautiful and majestic bridges such as Han River Bridge, Dragon Bridge, Thuan Phuoc Bridge are also very interesting tourist destination.

About 30km far from Da Nang, Hoi An is an ideal destination. Hoi An ancient city attracts many visitors. Immersing ancient space at sunset, you will feel more comfortable and relax.

Eating and shopping

Da Nang is a coastal city so seafood is extremely rich. You can enjoy fresh seafood along the coastline Pham Van Dong.

If you want to enjoy the specialties of Da Nang city like girdle cake rolled pork, noodle, Tran store will be perfect destination for you.

In addition, there are so many famous snacks such as pancakes, noodles, fish salad…