Time to celebratePeople transporting kumquat trees on a road leading to the centre of Hanoi, Vietnam for the upcoming Lunar New Year. — AFP
HANOI: She may be edging into her nineties, but Tran Thi Tam still refuses to serve her children store-bought banh chung, the savoury rice cake prepared in a frenzy during Vietnam’s lunar new year festival known as Tet.
Instead, the 89-year-old Hanoi resident and her children spend more than a day assembling the Vietnamese delicacy made of sticky rice, beans and pork wrapped in green leaves and tied with bamboo string.
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