Tag: Hanoi

Chuyện xây nhà tập thể ở Hà Nội

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Ngày nay, những khu tậpthể đã trở nên nhếch nhác với những “chuồng cọp” phình to cũng tỷ lệ với số dânngày càng tăng lên. Thế nhưng, những ngôi nhà tập thể này trong quá khứ đã từnglà biểu tượng của thời kỳ đầu xây dựng xã hội chủ nghĩa.

Sketches and the idea of “Home”

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My life these days feels quiet. No trips, no busy fieldwork and deadlines, these are summer days of solitude and quiet joy of doing exactly what I like: sketch, write, read, listen to podcast, think and read some more. This time feels like a moment last year when I was sitting in my Pleiku studio, watching the sweet Highland sunset riping outside my window; I’m slowly savouring the feeling of being at home – being myself, doing what I like, savouring what I love.

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“Quà” – a gift of peace in the alleys

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There is an unwritten rule: in Hanoi, good “quà” can only be found deeply hiding in alleys. Food lovers have no other choice but patiently wander around and keep searching. In alleys, sellers and customers, customers and customers are normally neighbours.

Hanoi Today, Anything to Miss?

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Whenever talking about a beautiful Hanoi, I wonder why it is always a uniform image for almost everyone: some tiny street corner which must be in the Old Quarter. So how about Hanoi of today? Is there anything to miss?