Food safety and hygiene is one of the main concerns for Da Nang’s housewives during the Tet Festival, especially given the number of instances in recent years of people suffering food poisoning during the holiday.

Therefore, an increasing number of housewives are turning to making their own Tet food for their families.  In these days leading up to Tet, a wide variety of recipes of such popular dishes as ginger, papaya and kumquat jams are available on websites such as webtretho.com, eva.vn, and phunutoday.vn.

A woman making ginger jam for her family

Those who do not have enough time to prepare Tet food for their families might order it from their friends.  This will help them to ensure the quality, safety and hygiene of food products to ensure a healthy Tet Festival.

In the past, the process of making “banh chung” (square glutinous rice cakes) was an indispensable part of Vietnamese culinary traditions at Tet.  Nowadays, many families still maintain this habit, which contributes to preserving the traditional Tet in the souls of Vietnamese people.  Family members gather together, sit around the cooking fire, and chat with each other to build and strengthen individual relationships.