There is an entrepreneur holding dual nationality, with a French father and a mother from South Vietnam. She, though not a Hue woman, has been attached to Hue and strangely crazy about Hue for more than 20 years now. That is also why she transferred most of her cultural and artistic assets to Hue, devoting a luxurious and spacious space inherently for profitable business purposes to building a non-public museum of fine arts.

In recent days, Hue beef noodle soup has been mentioned again. The first is the strange but happy news when in April, a special dish of the Ancient Capital has been introduced on the menu of the schools in Saijo City (Japan).

After long rain, when the cold is still lingering in the wind, green moss has grown on rocky beaches and concrete embankments along the coast of Thuan An and Hai Duong... In an afternoon of golden sunlightin spring, I went to the sea, sitting by the green algae, listening to the sea waves whispering by the rocky shore and I had a strange feeling at easy.

Few people think that common fishy ingredient can be used to make that strange che (a sweet dish). But more than that, in Minh Mang’s era, Thai Y Vien (the Medical Institute) studied and adjusted the ingredients to make it one of the 25 royal sweet dishes.