Bánh tét (Round sticky rice mung bean cake).Bánh chưng (Square sticky rice mung bean cake).I also list some other Vietnamese New Year’s Food resources at the end of the section if you’d like to dive in even deeper! Some of these I recreated (and got help from my mom to recreate) for this blog post. Here are Vietnamese dishes you’d typically find during our New Year’s spreads. A traditional Vietnamese Tết meal involves some dishes we have throughout the year (comfort food year-round!), but also some special items just for the New Year.
Like any celebration, the food plays a very key role. I hope this helps you as well! And even if you don’t celebrate Lunar New Year, I hope you enjoy learning about Vietnamese Lunar New Year customs! And honestly I’m excited to have a permanent resource specific to how my family celebrates, to help guide my own future Vietnamese Lunar New Year parties (especially when it’s safe to have parties again!) It was fun learning more about this part of my Vietnamese culture and heritage.
HAPPY LUNAR NEW YEAR 2021 IN VIETNAMESE HOW TO
It usually gives me correct prompts to ask my parents / things that may not be top of mind for them when I ask questions and suddenly they’ve got lots to talk about if I tell them I read about some Vietnamese thing online lol): I’ve put together a little celebration guide for the Vietnamese Lunar New Year, including traditional foods commonly found in our home each Tết, how to play a popular Vietnamese gambling game even us kids got to partake in growing up (much lower stakes than the adults lol), some New Year’s Greetings and well wishes we seem to only say once a year before receiving red envelope gifts, and an audio clip of my parents sharing some of their New Year’s memories growing up in Vietnam. There will be no new years celebrations in San Jose (my parents are really bummed about that), nor will there be in-person new years celebrations here in Edmonton.Īs I get older and learn more about my Vietnamese culture and heritage, pull recipes from my mom (lol), and catalogue it on this blog-reconnecting with the Tết we used to have was top of my mind this 2021.Īfter consulting with my mom, and doing a little Internet research (I don’t know if Google gets enough credit for helping people learn and understand their cultures a little bit more lol. This year especially (2021, pandemic Year 2), will be unlike any other Tết before it. Of course, we’d still have celebrate here at home with a smaller Lunar New Year family dinner, and occasionally one of us siblings would go with our parents to a local Tết party put on by the Edmonton Vietnamese Association, but it was never quite like the Tết parties we’d hold at home, or attend at family friends’ homes, as kids. It’s something my parents would look forward to each year. San Jose, if you don’t know, well because why would you lol, is home to the largest number of Vietnamese people in any city outside of Vietnam itself, which makes it a popular North American spot to converge for Lunar New Year celebrations. Once my brothers and I became adults though, my parents changed their New Year traditions and started flying down to San Jose to ring in Tết with their friends. For years growing up, I remember Vietnamese Lunar New Year (Tết) always involved big gatherings, visits to the temple, and a lot of really, really good food.
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