Highlights and expectations

10th Hue City Sports Festival 2026:
Highlights and expectations

Under the theme ‘Hue's Aspirations - Reaching New Heights in Sports’, the festival not only celebrated physical fitness activities but also linked sports development with improving quality of life, enriching cultural life...
Grilled sweet potato with scallion oil

Snacks for the afternoon was sometimes just some rice left over from lunch, eaten with braised fish. But what I liked best was grilled sweet potato and the bowl of scallion oil which mom had made for us.

Grilled sweet potato with scallion oil
Grandma’s pork cooked until tender

On those days, if my grandpa was at home, he would often hang around in the kitchen with her. His hands softly patted her on the shoulder, as she sat, quietly watching the fire under the pot.

Grandma’s pork cooked until tender
The waves are still rushing at the feet

Standing on the sand dunes of the seaboard areas to look at the small bamboo crafts, you will find that they are like the fragile life at the sea front.

The waves are still rushing at the feet
Co may in the city

Happening to see some co may in the city, I guessed they had made a migration journey here.

Co may in the city
National conference of young researchers in Hue

There were more than 70 scientific papers submitted by scientists, research students, post-graduates, and junior researchers from many different tertiary education institutions across the country.

National conference of young researchers in Hue
The slowness of Hue ...

If the slow pace of the cyclo wheels is an attribute to Hue's tourism image, the cyclo drivers make up a calm, leisurely soul. These two are so well blended to render Hue’s image and personality.

The slowness of Hue
A turtle listed in the Red Book released into the sea

Earlier, at dawn on November 13, while working in Tam Giang lagoon, Mr. Phan Van Gio from Ngu My Thanh village (Quang Loi commune) discovered a turtle trapped in the fishing net in a weak health condition.

A turtle listed in the Red Book released into the sea
A turtle in the Red Book released into the sea

This Olive Ridley sea turtle weighs 35 kilograms and is in weak health condition. Immediately, the authorities cured, carried out procedures and then released it into the sea of Dien Loc commune, Phong Dien district.

A turtle in the Red Book released into the sea
Grilled herring cooked with ginger

In my aunt’s experience, in order to have a “standard” pot of grilled herring cooked with ginger, we need fresh herrings with clear eyes and sparkling blue scales.

Grilled herring cooked with ginger
Hue-style duck noodle

Cooking duck noodles is quite complicated. Because duck meat is naturally smelly, a fine bowl of duck noodle must retain the meat’s sweet and rich flavor and get rid of its duck odor.

Hue-style duck noodle
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