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Putting up offerings on the altar, burning votive money , and lighting incense: these are just some rituals that every Vietnamese is probably familiar with during Tết or even on special occasions. A lot of us might observe or even carry out these customs, but not many are fully aware of why we do them.
Vietnam
The most recent Tết holiday witnessed an outstanding performance by Vietnam’s domestic tourism sector, while international tourism had a year of underwhelming figures.
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The resurgence of tourism in 2022 has provided a strong foundation for The Grand Ho Tram Strip to build upon and get back to doing what it has always excelled at – providing the ideal environment for domestic and international travellers to create everlasting memories.
Resorts
Traditionally, people have been cautioned about traveling to Vietnam during the Tết holiday as it’s a time of year for locals to return to their hometowns to visit family, and thus opportunities for exploration are limited. However, domestic routines are evolving so foreign guests can travel with ease during the holiday and encounter unique cultural activities and flavors.
Resorts
Tết is a matter of who not where . We remember the people we celebrate with and not the physical location.
Stories
In 2021, we decided to expand on the enduring appeal of our food series Hẻm Gems by coming up with new collections of articles zooming in on specific aspects of Vietnamese society and culture. Last year was a time for delving deeper into these series.
Education
Lively student performances, games, activities, a bazaar, and snacks all combined to bring the community even closer together earlier this month at European International School’s (EIS) Thao Dien campus during a festive season celebration.
Architecture
A humble production hut built with recycled bottles, local timber, thatched roof and simple granito concrete floors is used as a bottling facility for drinking water.
Music & Arts
In two weeks’ time, we can temporarily put down our laptops, shut away documents, and set up holiday auto-replies to slip into a bánh chưng-induced coma for a week.
Eat & Drink Partner
You may have noticed the elegant space filled with refined architectural details, inspiring furniture, artwork and fresh flowers. The sunlight-graced scene has been used as the background for numerous photo shoots by various influencers, brands and models in Saigon. But like many locales used for posts that appear on social media, you wouldn’t know where you could go to enjoy them yourself without being told.
Music & Arts
A gay-themed comic from Vietnam recently won a bronze award at the Japan International Manga Award.
Arts & Culture
If our Saigoneer moments in 2021 were marred by catastrophes and heart-breaking departures, 2022 has been a year of rediscovery and picking ourselves up.
Arts & Culture
For the 2023 calendar, 'Robots vs. Flowers,' twelve young Vietnamese artists were each given a month and tasked with creating an image responding to the question: "Can technology and nature survive together?"
Saigon
Last week, the Saigon Metro project took a major step in realizing many Saigoneers’ long-awaited dream of experiencing their own urban railway line.
![[Photos] Katinat Cafe's Gò Vấp Location Is an Industrial Glass Fortress](https://media.urbanistnetwork.com/saigoneer/article-images/2022/12/22/a1m.webp)
Architecture
Cement, air, water, sand, and gravel: concrete is a simple material. Same for glass, that spread of super-heated quartz sand.
Eat & Drink Partner
More than just a taste preference, to young people goût is a matter of individuality and knowledge that reflects the style and character of a person.
Vietnam
A seemingly innocuous notice by a coffee shop in Đà Nẵng has sparked polarizing responses from netizens across Vietnam.
Hotels
Gingerbread houses, those delicious-looking cookie constructions are an unmistakable sign that the holiday season has arrived. While they originated in Germany hundreds of years ago independent of Christmas, they are now so associated with the season of Noel that homes, bakeries, hotels, and malls worldwide look forward to crafting one. The bakery team at Hôtel des Arts Saigon, Mgallery has taken the tradition up a notch this year and handmade a stunning recreation of the city’s famed Notre-Dame Cathedral. Completely edible, including the transparent sugar windows, it’s so impressive that it will help you forget the real version just down the road remains perpetually behind scaffolding.
Resorts
People flock to The Grand Ho Tram for its myriad of entertainment options. To satiate the appetites of guests, the resort has spent a great deal of effort to ensure that its culinary options meet guests’ high expectations and rumbling stomachs.
Education
To “just have a go” is a very Australian way of encouraging a person to put forth their best effort and try something new. Ben Armstrong, the secondary school principal at Australian International School (AIS), used the phrase numerous times when Saigoneer met with him earlier this month to discuss the school’s scholarship programs.
Saigon
You can deduce a lot from a photo.
Resorts
Traveler expectations are changing and some hotels and resorts are adapting faster than others to accommodate the new trends and preferences.
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The festive season is coming and Mai House Saigon Hotel is offering you distinctive culinary experiences this December. Enjoy sumptuous buffet dinners, check in with luxurious High Tea, savor eye-catching desserts, or simply indulge in the New Year Countdown Party, for a full and meaningful festive season.
Eat & Drink
It's a story-led restaurant. Born in Saigon sometime in the late 1970s, Miss Thu had a pleasant childhood scampering around an apartment block with her friends, sitting on the back of her parent’s vintage motorbike for rides to and from school and savoring simple street food alongside home-cooked meals. She was privileged to go abroad. She explored foreign arts, cultures, and cuisines from around the world before returning to Saigon.