Every time I’ve eaten at a Vietnamese restaurant with a group, deciding on appetizers has become a whole discussion. Should we get spring rolls, or egg rolls? How many? Tofu or pork? Shrimp or sweet ...

Suong "Sunny" Thomas, a librarian at the Arlington County Central Library, often teaches and demonstrates Vietnamese cooking. One of her most requested dishes is goi cuon, the fresh spring roll of ...

Vietnamese summer rolls are cool salads wrapped in sheer circles of rice paper -- just what you want to eat on a hot summer day. Inside are dainty bits of pork and shrimp, boiled rice noodles and ...

VietNamNet Bridge – Two specialties of Vietnam – pho (Vietnamese noodle) and goi cuon occupy two middle positions in the list of the top 50 cuisines in the world by CNN. Vietnamese pho ranks the 28th ...

I did not grow up eating Vietnamese cuisine. The first time that I ever tasted goi cuon, or Vietnamese summer rolls, was about 30 years ago in Dallas. I still remember the taste sensation of fresh ...

Take a gastronomic tour of Vietnam, but be warned – do not read this article if you are even slightly hungry. Take a gastronomic tour of Vietnam, but be warned – do not read this article if you are ...

Vietnamese goi cuon, or fresh mixed salad rolls, offered by the owner of a restaurant in Malaysia with a number of fillings such as crab sticks, salmon and smoked duck, is favored by locals in the ...

With vendors selling specialty dishes daily on every street corner, you don’t stay hungry for long in Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh City. Street food is well and truly at the heart of this bustling city, but ...

The coronavirus has truly crippled the cultural diplomacy sector for 2020, a year that would otherwise have marked yet another lively round of festivities for the Association of Southeast Asian ...

With strict quarantine measures in Manila, the ASEAN Ladies Foundation (ALF) had to forego their annual cultural festival to celebrate ASEAN Month in August. But that didn’t dampen the feisty ladies’ ...