Tag: Tet
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Happy Chinese New Year!
It’s that time again. Penang’s Chinese community is geared up for the long night, then days, then weeks of celebration! The lanterns are up. Here are some at a local mall: What are some of the other characteristics? Lion Dances. Random appearances by Confucian looking characters, handing out the ubiquitous red “ang pao” – envelopes…
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The Return of the Vietnamese Bean Cake
It’s funny how a simple treat from the past can download a whole heap of memories into your consciousness. Have you ever eaten Vietnamese green bean cake? This stuff takes me back. A friend, stopping by Malaysia coming from Vietnam, picked this up for my family. When we lived in Haiphong from 1994-1997, we…
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Happy Vietnamese New Year (and a reminder of Tet ’68)
Chuc mung nam moi! Happy ‘Tet’ everyone. January 31 marks the most important holiday of the year for the Vietnamese. Yes, yes. It’s the same as Chinese New Year, but no self-respecting person from Vietnam who speaks Vietnamese (like myself) would ever refer to it using the name of their northern neighbor. It’s ‘Tet’! For…
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Vietnamese New Year & Tet ’68
Happy Vietnamese New Year Everyone! I enjoyed many Tet holidays in Vietnam visiting neighbors, being stuffed with delicacies by eager grandmothers who wouldn’t be satisfied until I would hold my stomach in agony and beg her not to put more on my plate. (She should anyways.) Tet is a wonderful time for family and friends…
Author Mark W Sasse 