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Culture
My memories of sneakers date back to when I was halfway through 7 th grade, when a pair of Chuck Taylor All Star 70’s was given to me by my parents to commemorate my good end-of-semester results. The shoes felt awkward, but the sensation of having the same sneakers that the cool kids were wearing was comparable to ecstasy.
Natural Selection
Of all the Asian and Southeast Asian countries that use the animal zodiac, only Vietnam has a cat in place of the rabbit. One theory for why is that while Chinese has a word for rabbit, it also has a specific word for Year of the Rabbit: mǎo , which sounds a lot like māo , the Chinese word for cat, which also sounds a lot like the Vietnamese word for cat, mèo .
Music & Arts
Đỗ Trọng Quý’s first solo show in Hanoi at Mo Art Space (136 Hang Trong), “One Endless Summer,” presents 26 of his most recent works during the past year.
Podcast
The latest Saigoneer Podcast episode is out now!
Film & TV
Voice actors are rarely given enough attention, for they are always working behind closed curtains, giving the movie its "life." Nonetheless, many young people continue to be drawn to this nascent career, falling in love with the art of "playing dress-up" with their voice.
Podcast
We hope you had a good, safe holiday weekend!
Podcast
A new Saigoneer Podcast episode is now available!
Culture
O tròn như quả trứng gà / ô thì đội mũ, ơ là thêm râu.
Health
This is an excerpt from Chapter 2 of the book Pills, Teas, and Songs: Stories of Medicine Around the World by Debby Nguyen, republished with permission. Debby's family of pharmacists and doctors practices both traditional and western forms of medicine.
Literature
Imagine that on the weekend a splinter flies into your eye and you have to see the doctor.
Literature
“Vietnamese communities can sometimes/often demand conformity and tradition of people in order to feel a part of things; I have always seen diaCRITICS as an opportunity to trouble the definitions, push the boundaries, to include the atypical voices and stories and viewpoints.”
Postcards
What if cải lương tuồng cổ costumes became a new trend?
Food Culture
In 2019, when the world was not going through a global public health disaster, dining out seemed like the most natural activity in our daily routine. We drank, we relished, we munched, and we bantered.
Postcards
Vietnam makes no special safety-protocol exceptions for Santa Claus.
Podcast
Our second-to-last episode of 2020 is here!
Music & Arts
There are many clumsy shoe prints beyond the foot-high metal boundary, next to a small sign that screams out in all caps: "PLEASE, DON’T TOUCH THE ARTWORK."
Podcast
A new podcast episode is available now!
Loạt Soạt
At the heart of Đặng Thân's poetry collection, OM [Other Moments] , is the poetics of dichotomy: beauty and brutality, light and darkness, hope and despair, nihilism and existentialism.
Podcast
Our latest episode is available now!
