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The largest Dutch supermarket chain, a restaurant in Canada, and a US fast food brand have been threatened with a boycott because they have provided nonstandard Vietnamese dishes. The product labelled as 'Vietnamese Pho' at the Dutch chain Albert Heijin (AH), the largest supermarket chain in the Netherlands, had to remove products labelled as ‘Vietnamese Pho’ from its shelves after negative backlash from customers. A customer said the supermarket provided chicken thighs, while the ingredients of the “authentic” pho are sliced beef or chicken. She wrote a letter to the AH board of directors and expressed her feelings about the "so-called Vietnamese pho". Vietnamese pho is a dish famous all over the world and people, if wanting to learn about it, just need to look it up on the internet. In 2020, Pho King Bon, a well known restaurant in Montreal, Canada also triggered anger among netizens when naming some dishes in a way that outraged Vietanm. The pho dishes in its menu had the names ‘Pho Kyu’, ‘Pho Kme’, ‘Pho Kit’, ‘Pho King Good’, which, if misread, could make people think of swearing in English. The restaurant guided customers to spell ‘bun thit nuong’ (vermicelli with grilled meat) into a phrase which means genitals in the French language. After facing criticism, Guillaume Boivin apologized, saying that the naming was not intended to offend anyone and the restaurant will change the names that led to the misunderstanding. Vietnamese banh my has also been counterfeited. The word ‘Vietnamese banh my wrap’ was seen on the package, but the shape and materials used to make this product are different from the original Vietnamese banh my. What made people angry was the way the banh my was processed and shaped. Its crust was very thin, rolled into an oval shape, covering the stuffing of pickled carrots, soya cheese and brown rice. In another case, Peja Krstic, the chef of a restaurant serving Vietnamese style dishes in the US, faced strong …

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A Vietnamese man has been caught clinging onto a foam float to swim from the COVID-19 epicenter of Hai Duong Province to Hai Phong City in northern Vietnam, instead of traveling through control points. The Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control in Hai Phong on Monday said that the case was discovered by police in Dai Ban Commune, An Duong District and a task force of Van Tien Village during a patrol session on Sunday. Accordingly, Truong Van Luan, a 43-year-old man dwelling in Minh Hoa Ward in Kinh Mon Town, Hai Duong, swam with the support of a foam float on the Lach Tray River to enter Van Tien Village in Dai Ban Commune. When he reached the riverside in Van Tien Village, he was immediately caught and taken to the local medical center for health declaration. After checking Luan’s personal information and health status, police in Dai Ban Commune booked the case and escorted him to the bordering area between Hai Phong and Hai Duong to return him to the latter province. Hai Duong is currently Vietnam’s COVID-19 epicenter with 676 cases having been documented since January 27. People traveling to and from Hai Duong are requested to make entrance via control points for medical declaration. Vietnam had gone nearly two months logging zero domestic cases before it detected the first one on January 27 and confirmed it one day later, according to the health ministry’s data. A total of 868 community-based cases have been confirmed in 13 provinces and cities since then, making it the most serious wave to have struck Vietnam after the first-ever COVID-19 patient was announced in the country on January 23, 2020. Hai Phong has registered four COVID-19 patients in this new wave. Like us on Facebook or follow us on Twitter to get the latest news about Vietnam! …

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A man from the southern Vietnamese province of Dong Nai has been following his passion of making Nguyen Dynasty (1802 – 1945) royal costumes and accessories. Tran Quang Minh Tan, a sociology graduate, started researching the Nguyen Dynasty royal garments in 2013, seven years before he decided to switch his career to this path in 2020. He moved from Bien Hoa City in Dong Nai to Hue City -- Vietnam’s former imperial capital -- for the convenience of his new endeavor. Tan said what made him come to this decision was the comeback of antique costumes, jewelry, and accessories amongst the Vietnamese youth. “I find that our ancestors' clothes are very delicate and elegant," said Tan. "I hope the costume revival will become more popular.” Tran Quang Minh Tan makes buttons for Nguyen Dynasty clothing. The items Tan is making are mainly jewelry, including earrings, metal pendants, orders of merit, permit card pendants, and accessories for 'ao dai ngu than' (‘five-piece ao dai’). Each product requires meticulous precision from the maker all the way from the process of researching documents and ancient artifacts to finding materials to resemble the original. According to Tan, despite young Vietnamese people’s interest in ancient costumes, they are still often confused between Vietnamese and Chinese antique garments due to cultural encounters between the two countries. In the future, Tan wishes to open a showroom to expand his career. He plans to cooperate with his seniors, who share the same love for Nguyen Dynasty fashion, to continue researching and making products with high esthetic value to catch the trend of longing for ancient clothing among young Vietnamese people. Tran Quang Minh Tan makes buttons for Nguyen Dynasty clothing. Tran Quang Minh Tan sew beads on a piece of Nguyen Dynasty clothing. Accessories and jewelry under the Nguyen Dynasty made by Tran Quang Minh Tan …

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