The Vietnamese New Year kicks off on Monday. For Diep Tran, who is chef and owner of Good Girl Dinette in Highland Park, Tết celebrations are not complete without making a batch of very labor ...

In the winter of 1976, a group of recently arrived Vietnamese refugees gathered for their first Tết in their new land. There, they cooked bánh chưng: labor-intensive, Bible-sized blocks of sticky rice ...

For Tết—the Vietnamese New Year in January, or, more precisely, a few weeks after—Reyna Duong of Sandwich Hag in the Cedars will be making the banana leaf-wrapped rice dumpling called banh chung. Banh ...

A Los Angeles chef gathered about 100 women to make traditional Vietnamese banh chung with a supply of fresh banana leaves and a half-dozen pressure cookers. By Tejal Rao WEST COMPTON, Calif. — In a ...

Celebrating Tet, the lunar new year, without banh chung is like Christmas without a tree or Thanksgiving without a turkey. The 6-by-6-inch delicacy, painstakingly stuffed with five layers of sticky ...

Bánh Chung Collective, a touring event around the celebration of Tet, is stopping by one of our favorite spots Saturday, where people can learn to make this Vietnamese treat. Tables in Sandwich Hag in ...

Customers crowded into the Tan Hoang Huong bakery in Santa Ana several days before the lunar new year. Gifts of candies and dried fruit wrapped in red cellophane lined the walls. And the sweet ...

VietNamNet Bridge – As the lunar New Year (Tet) approaches, some suburban villages of Hanoi are very busy making banh chung (square glutinous rice cake) to serve the market. VietNamNet Bridge – As the ...

Like most holidays, a bountiful spread of food is essential to Lunar New Year festivities. In my Vietnamese household, rice cakes called banh chung and candied fruits called mut are as essential to ...

VietNamNet Bridge – Tranh Khuc village in Thanh Tri district, Hanoi, is specialized in making banh chung (square glutinous rice cake). Villagers are hastily producing banh chung for the lunar New Year ...