Once when I was in Thai Binh, someone asked me in Vietnamese about my "nương". I froze for a second. "Why's he asking me about barbecue (nướng)?" Seeing my confusion, he burst out laughing: "Ah, I ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... HANOI, Vietnam — A tall, blond woman in black and a small Asian girl stand at the prow of a gilded barge moving slowly over a wide, jungle-banked river. The ...

“At first, I thought he didn’t speak Vietnamese fluently. It turned out he spoke with a central region accent; the one who didn’t speak Vietnamese fluently was me,” said an online commenter, laughing.

This is a periodic column that explores the ethnic diversity of South Florida cooking. “I love to eat,” Van Pham says. “So I had to learn to cook.” In her hometown of Saigon, Pham absorbed enough by ...

The temples at Angkor Wat and Cambodia’s capital city Phnom Penh provide a modern-ancient contrast for a 13-day tour that also features neighboring Vietnam and a cruise on the Lower Mekong River. The ...