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Tet decorations in Vietnam    

Jan. 27, 2009 is Jan. 1st, 2009 of Lunar calender .... sigh.....:( Vietnamese Lunar New Year is coming in a week, but I can't even feel anything. It's sad :(. Everybody is very excited and very busy for New Year in Vietnam. I can't feel anything change here :(. My mom, dad, sisters, niece and nephew are very happy over there in Vietnam, but me. The whole family, but me :(



I wish I could have my family to celebrate our Lunar New Year here in Eugene this year! So please, be my family and share with me this special moment of the year! Hoa Mai Tree You only can see Hoa Mai on Lunar New Year time. Traditional fruit and cake on New Year. 

Water melon is one of traditional fruit in Vietnam. 

flower market We buy a lot of flowers and fill our house up with many kind of flowers on New Year days. Hoa Mai (South of Vietnam)



Hoa Dao (North of Vietnam)

 because of weather, we have different Lunar New Year traditional flowers

Banh U (U cake).Traditional cake in the South of Vietnam  Banh Chung (Chung cake). Traditional cake in the North of Vietnam  Nom character 

You can ask them write some words such as Happy, Love.... in Nom Character (Chinese) Lunar New Year foods  Banh Te't (Tet cake) This is traditional cake of my hometown :) The South-East of Vietnam Candies

They sale those kind of candies every new year. Look pretty and taste good!

Red candies and red envelops or we call it lucky money. The elder always put lucky money on red envelops and give their kids after they wish all the best to them on the first day of New Year- Mung 1.  this is old school, but i love it. Nom Character by Ong Do (old man who teaches Chinese)