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12 Things Newcomers To Vietnam Should Know To Avoid Culture Shock

If you're new to Vietnam, these 12 tips might help you overcome the culture shock faster and have an easier time adjusting.

An Giang's Chăm community is part of the Mekong Delta's cultural mosaic, with mosques, top-notch silk, and halal Vietnamese food.

Aside from ao dai, Vietnamese women from minor ethnic groups also have their own beautiful clothing that deserves a shout-out.

Built 126 years ago, this was the home of Huỳnh Thủy Lê - the real life lover of Marguerite Duras, and the Chinaman in L'Amant (1992).

Here are 20 tips to help you navigate the intricate etiquette system of Vietnam, from table manners to everyday encounters.

Set in Indochinese Saigon in the 1920s, L'Amant tells the secret affair between a French girl and a Vietnamese-Chinese man.

Though they are nowhere near the fancy high-tech devices that kids these days play with, these toys made our childhood awesome all the same.

Here are 6 interesting facts about Indochine, a 1992 movie set in Vietnam during the 1930s to 1950s that won an Oscar.

History remembers the ghost of the Hứa family as a girl who died in Ho Chi Minh City Fine Arts Museum, but ghost hunters beg to differ.

From 300-year-old fish sauce recipe to live shows honoring the history of fish sauce, this fish sauce museum is very sauce lover's paradise.