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Kit is a Hanoi-based journalist and film photography enthusiast who writes about culture, social issues, travel, and the environment.
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Hanoi Ngõ Nooks
“Where is home?” is a question that at some point has probably nagged everyone who feels caught between worlds. To the owner of a retro cafe in Hanoi’s southern Dong Da District, it’s Cu Xa .
Environment
Are you tired of seeing plastic everywhere?
![[Photos] Reaping the Rice Harvest in Mu Cang Chai](https://media.urbanistnetwork.com/urbanisthanoi/article-images/2018/11/riceharvest/10h.webp)
Travel
Each September, the rice fields of Mu Cang Chai turn ripe and as gold as coins, and then the back-breaking work begins .
Music & Arts
Quest Festival is just around the corner, and this year sees a curious new addition – Project ATX6, a music documentary project that sends six emerging Austin musicians to perform at three international festivals every year. The project has already traveled all over the world, attending established events like Indie Week in Canada and Reeperbahn in Germany .
Hanoi
The recently published Sustainable Cities Index compared the sustainability of 100 cities around the world. What determines a cities sustainability? Researchers at Arcadis, a consultancy firm headquartered in Amsterdam, looked at three main factors: people, profit and planet.
Music & Arts
In a country with surprisingly few artist-in-residence programs, live.make.share represents a rare opportunity for cultural symbiosis and artistic development by giving international artists the chance to collaborate with local art practitioners and ceramicists.
Hanoi
Hanoi is aiming to create around 1,500 new parking spaces over the next seven years to help deal with overcrowding at the city’s existing parking lots.
Music & Arts
On their debut album, Con Đường , the much loved Hanoi outfit bring a darker yet more mature sound that speaks as much about the depths of heartbreak and loss as it does hope.
Postcards
This week’s postcard is based on a real-life event: a sweet, thoughtful gesture that turned distinctly fishy.
Hanoi Ngõ Nooks
As traditional and unchanging as Hanoi’s cuisine may seem to visitors, creativity can still be found below the surface. Every now and then, a novel dish catches on and becomes the talk of the town, and that’s exactly what happened on a crossroads near Truc Bach Lake over a decade ago .
![[Photos] The Unbridled Joy of Hanoi’s Walking Streets](https://media.urbanistnetwork.com/urbanisthanoi/article-images/2018/10/walking/4b.jpg)
Culture
In a claustrophobic city where cramped houses huddle shoulder-to-shoulder and roads resemble battlegrounds, walking streets provide a rare breathing space for people used to clamor. More importantly, they offer a much-needed area in which children and parents can play .
Hanoi Ngõ Nooks
Hanoi’s fascination with bún is endless. There are more varieties in this city than anywhere else in Vietnam. Bún has a lot more to offer than phở , especially as it can be served cool and dry, as seen in bún chả and bún đậu — both popular choices on hotter days when a steaming bowl of noodles is less appealing.
Society
Gareth Ward took up his role as the British Ambassador this July. He’s already enamored himself to the Vietnamese public on social media through his Vietnamese language skills, and photos of him having his haircut on the street or eating porridge.
Postcards
The naked truth awaits those who venture beneath Long Bien Bridge…
Hanoi
Earlier this week, Vietnam declared a two-day state funeral for late President Tran Dai Quang.
Hanoi Ngõ Nooks
Tropical Forest isn’t one of those adorable coffee shops you find hidden away in one of Hanoi’s many pokey alleyways. In fact, it’s quite the opposite – its large glass presence resembles a giant terrarium full of trees and plants. Only two years old, it comes across as a metaphor for a new, modern Hanoi that rejects the small, family-run business and embraces modern trends.
![[Photos] Wild Celebrations Follow Vietnam’s Quarter-Final Victory Against Syria](https://media.urbanistnetwork.com/urbanisthanoi/article-images/2018/08/Football/9b.jpg)
Culture
Last night, Vietnam beat Syria 1-0, taking them into the semi-finals of the Asian Games for the first time in history.
![[Photos] Manga Costumes and Virtual Idols at Japanese Cosplay Festival](https://media.urbanistnetwork.com/urbanisthanoi/article-images/2018/08/Cosplay2/11b.jpg)
Culture
Last weekend, the Ichigo Ichie 2018 Japanese Culture Festival - Kamisama & Yokai, which took place at Hanoi Children's Cultural Center, brought gloriously eccentric cosplay characters to the capital.
Music & Arts
Anita Wilczęga sits on a stool in Tinh Dau art studio, trying to explain the final project she’ll curate in Vietnam before departing for Italy. Behind her, ten white boxes hang from the rafters, swaying gently in an electric-fan breeze.
Hanoi
Located on Hoang Minh Giam Street, the park will be the first designated green space in Thanh Xuan District.
Society
Ever wanted someone to rescue you when you get a flat tire on a dark, rainy night?
![[Photos] An Urbexer’s Paradise: Inside the Rides of Hanoi’s Abandoned Water Park](https://media.urbanistnetwork.com/urbanisthanoi/article-images/2018/08/Waterpark/22b.jpg)
Travel
Almost everyone has, by now, heard of Hue’s apocalyptic abandoned waterpark – a place so eerie it feels like entering a Jurassic World sequel. Who knew there was another park right here in Hanoi ?
Development
The project includes the central Co Loa Citadel along with surrounding constructions in Co Loa, Duc Tu, Viet Hung and Uy No communes of Dong Anh District.
Music & Arts
Ever since the closure of Zone 9 , Hanoi’s young artists have been longing for a new spot to rise from the ashes and fill the hole the defunct art hub left in the capital's creative landscape. Creative City represented that for a while, but new quarter Sixty Square is becoming a truly authentic and exciting alternative.
