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Axios
31-01-2025
- Entertainment
- Axios
Tet Fest, Chewbacchus parade and more things to do in New Orleans this weekend
New Orleans will be hopping this weekend with the Chewbacchus parade, Lunar New Year events and Super Bowl activities kicking off before the big game Feb. 9. Here are some of our top picks of things to do this weekend. 🐍 Tet Fest celebrates Vietnamese New Year on Friday, Saturday and Sunday at Mary Queen of Vietnam Church. Admission is free, but bring cash for all the traditional food. (Details) 🎶 Algiers Mardi Gras Fest starts with a parade at 9am Saturday followed by music and food. The Brass-a-Holics and Amanda Shaw are the headliners. (Details) 👽 The Intergalactic Krewe of Chewbacchus rolls at 7pm Saturday through the Marigny and the French Quarter. Actor Mark Proksch reigns as the master of the mundane. (Details) See the 2025 parade schedule for Mardi Gras. 🦓 Cheer on zonkeys and ostriches Saturday at the Fair Grounds during the exotic animal races. (Tickets) 🥖 New Orleans bakers are hosting a bake sale at La Boulangerie on Saturday to raise money for people affected by the wildfires in Los Angeles. (Details) 🎨 Join the Art Walk on Magazine Street this Saturday night. Galleries will have artist openings and refreshments. (Details) ✨ Temporary light shows start Saturday night on the exterior of the Caesars Superdome and Sunday night on the St. Louis Cathedral. They run through the Super Bowl. (Details) Check out our fan guide of other Super Bowl LIX events to do all week.
CBS News
29-01-2025
- Entertainment
- CBS News
San Jose shop makes traditional Vietnamese dresses for Tết festivities
Vietnamese people around the world and here in the Bay Area are celebrating the Vietnamese New Year Tết. The City of San Jose has the largest Vietnamese population in the world outside of Vietnam. At Love Me Knots Bridal in San Jose's Lion Plaza in Little Saigon, Christina Bui makes and designs many of the colorful áo dàis, a traditional Vietnamese dress. Bui and her parents have owned this shop for 35 years. "For me, it's always been a privilege to make it for our community. And so when my parents started the business here, that's all we did. We just made áo dàis," said Bui. "It makes me so proud just thinking of being able to carry their work into my generation, and then hopefully down to my children's generation." Just outside Bui's shop, Lion Plaza was packed with shoppers buying fresh fruit, flowers, treats, and decorations. For the first time in five years, the outdoor Flower Market is back at Lion Plaza for Vietnamese New Year. Leyanna Lawson and her family come to Lion Plaza every year to buy their áo dàis. She says it's a family tradition. Born and raised in the South Bay, Lawson loves calling San Jose her home. "Oh, I'm extremely proud," said Lawson. "It's great to be able to say that I'm from San Jose and from the Vietnamese culture." For Bui, she not only remembers where she came from but what it took to come here to America. She and her family escaped Vietnam when she was just three years old in 1979. It's something she and her family will never forget. "My mom and dad made sure that we remember that it was something very difficult to get here to America," said Bui. "We know in our heart and in our soul that we are Vietnamese, but we're also very thankful for the American culture." Through the art of making áo dàis, Bui is continuing her parents' legacy, keeping her rich Vietnamese culture and traditions alive. The San Jose Tết Festival kicks off February 7th at Eastridge Mall. It's a three-day event, celebrating the Vietnamese Tết New Year with lion dances, food, live music and performances. This year marks the San Jose Tết Festival's 10th anniversary.
South China Morning Post
27-01-2025
- Entertainment
- South China Morning Post
Sticky, delicious and ‘a bit fatty': Vietnam's 12-hour Lunar New Year delicacy
Published: 12:02pm, 27 Jan 2025 Exhausted after 12 hours of cooking, Nguyen Thi Thuy Hong gently unpeels the last of five leaves encasing a squishy, sticky rice cake known as banh chung – a Lunar New Year delicacy in Vietnam . The wrapped cakes of glutinous rice, green beans and pork belly have for centuries been one of several dishes prepared in a frenzy at home specially for Tet, the Vietnamese New Year, which begins on Wednesday. Hong, 55, has laboured over the dish – which must be boiled for 12 hours over a wood fire – almost every year for the last four decades. Nguyen Thi Thuy Hong wraps 'banh chung' outside her house on the outskirts of Hanoi. Photo: AFP 'We can buy ready-made banh chung but it doesn't create that Tet atmosphere,' she said, explaining she enjoyed the process of cleaning leaves, soaking rice and pre-cooking beans in the very early morning. 'It keeps me busy, and it's tiring, but I still love making the cake myself.' According to an oft-told legend, the banh chung recipe was first prepared thousands of years ago by a Vietnamese prince who wanted to impress his father in a bid for the throne. A Vietnamese woman eats 'banh chung' rice cake in Hanoi. Photo: AFP Pleased with the cake's flavour and impressed with his son's demonstration of respect, the king duly handed down his crown.
