Language classes are attracting increasing numbers of people who need to communicate with locals at work or just want to understand the culture. A new customer at Dom café in Hanoi might be surprised ...

Let’s imagine we’re in Vietnam. It’s Saturday night, and your hungry buddies are jonesing for something different when someone says: “I’m craving American food!” You head to a neighborhood called ...

The flavors of Vietnamese cooking are ones we could eat every day, all year round. Here, James Beard Award–winning cookbook author Andrea Nguyen explains how to bring the tenets of this bright, ...

VietNamNet Bridge – Overseas Vietnamese, wherever they live in the world, have been learning Vietnamese language everyday to uphold and promote the national culture identity. However, they meet a lot ...

Hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese citizens fled their country after the fall of Saigon in 1975, when the communist-controlled North took over the American-aided South. The U.S. government accepted ...

It’s back-to-school time at the Lindberg household, as a new semester of Vietnamese lessons begins this week. Once again I’ll climb the stairs to my tutor’s Chinatown walk-up, dog-eared vocab book in ...

VietNamNet Bridge – Faced with Viet Nam's chaotic streets, mind-numbing bureaucracy and appetite for strange delicacies (dog, anyone?), it is easy for somewhat uptight foreigners such as myself to ...