5 stories tagged Lunar New Year

The Constant Epicurean, Ep. 186, Tết Nguyên Tiêu - The Spring Moon. In this edition we head to Hoi An for the first full moon festival.

The Constant Epicurean Ep. 184, Tết 2021, The Year of the Ox. In this edition we usher in the year of the Ox here in rural Vietnam. We visit family, enjoy time with old friends, and for a week there is no world beyond the valley.

As we returned home and night had fallen on the village, we arrived at a house full of guests. Friends and family visited back and forth from house to house, having a...

New Year's Day was not unlike at home. For the most part, it was a day of official rest for all and not much was going on. There had been plenty of food prepared, and it...

I was rocked awake by what seemed like a massive explosion right outside my bedroom window. As my mind recoiled back from the land of slumber, it began firing on all...