The stamp sets feature four local dishes, including banh mi, a type of Vietnamese sandwich, banh xeo, crispy Vietnamese pancake, com tam, broken rice, and banh khot, mini savory pancakes.
A stamp featuring banh khot costs VND19,000, while the price of the three remaining stamps stands at VND4,000 each.
The stamp collection has been designed by artist Nguyen Du from Vietnam Post Corporation and will be available on the public postal network until June 30, 2024.
The release of the stamps comes as part of efforts aimed at honouring the beauty of Vietnamese culinary culture and introducing Vietnamese cuisine to international friends through postage stamps.
Cultural week brings a glimpse of Hungarian culture to Can Tho
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Vietnam boasts street food in Moscow
NDO –The Vietnamese Street Food Festival, the eight of its kind, opened at the Hanoi-Moscow Trade Centre complex (Incentra) in Moscow, Russia, on March 8, with the aim of promoting the Vietnamese culinary culture to Russian people and international friends.
Streetside service station serves up surprise
When you travel a long distance these days you stop by a service station to take a rest and get some food. The trick then was to spot where the trucks were to find good fresh at a reasonable price.
Rice paddy crab hotpot
Vietnamese cuisine revolves around produce found in the paddy fields. A nation with over a thousand years of wet rice culture, Vietnamese people have been using everything rice-related for centuries.
Xoi Xeo – a popular sticky rice in Hanoi
There is nowhere in Vietnam that so many types of sticky rice- or “xoi” present like they do in Hanoi. But standing out among the various kinds, “xoi xeo” is not only creative art with a sophisticated combination of ingredients and color but the sophistication even leaks out to its odd name.
