Follow the lights of the lanterns or the sweet aroma of mooncakes and you’ll find yourself at Tết Trung Thu, Việt Nam’s mid-autumn festival. Our newest contributor Emmerick Đoàn takes us on a moonlit stroll to find out the significance of the lanterns and the mooncakes that we enjoy every fall.
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Your Name is WHAT?
Vietnamese names are hard to remember and even harder to pronounce - if you’re a non-native speaker.
Sometimes it can cause a bit of an awkward situation when Vietnamese names, like Bích, or Phúc, resemble profanities in English. Gia Linh Vũ has a primer on how to navigate some of these tricky names.