Tet Market for the International Community in Hanoi

Sat 07 Feb 2015, 11 am – 3 pm
International School of Vietnam

From the organizer:

Come to a Tet market event for the international community in Hanoi.

While the Vietnamese Lunar New Year (Tet) reflects the diversified culture of the Vietnamese people, a Tet market is regarded as a specific cultural activity. Traditionally, a typical Tet market offers an abundance of sticky rice, green leaf, rice wine, flowers and all kind of food, fruit and decorative plants for the Lunar New Year. When Tet approaches, people not only go to Tet market for shopping, but also to enjoy cultural activities and meet friends. Visiting a Tet market is really a fascinating experience, full of sights, sounds, scents and emotions.

At the Tet market, traditional Vietnamese Tet foodstuffs and decorating items will be on sale, and there will be cooking class to demonstrate a traditional new year’s eve dinner. We will show how to prepare and cook “Banh-Chung” and not forgetting our usual favourites: Mut-tet (traditional sweets), Cha-gio (spring rolls), Vietnamese tea & spirits, wine and homemade foodstuffs. The participating vendors will surprise and delight you with a variety of other high quality, handmade goods, Tet decorating plants as well as Vietnamese traditional games and activities, dragon dancing, calligraphy handwriting, Bonsai art exhibition, and Dong Ho painting for children.

What you will see:

Tet stalls: Tet food, gifts, and jewellery
Handcraft stalls
Bookstore
Cooking classes: banh chung, traditional Tet New Year’s Eve dinner.
Food corner
Tet decorating plants: kumquat bonsai, flower shop, peach blossom
Games: traditional dance, dap nieu, ca-kheo, lottery
Calligraphy master
Exhibition: children’s painting, gemstone pictures
Lion dance

Entrance:

Entrance ticket will be on sale from 21st January 2015. Please call +84 (0) 435 409183 (extension 131) for ticket reservations.
Pre-event price: 80.000 VND
At the gate: 100.000 VND

Giveaway – Join Tet Market for free!

International School of Vietnam is giving away 5 pairs of tickets for Hanoi Grapevine readers. To win these tickets, please simply follow two steps below:

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Deadline: Sat 31 Jan 2015, 4 pm  MONDAY 2ND FEB 2015, 4PM

Hanoi Grapevine team will choose randomly 5 posts to give away the tickets. You are allowed to comment only once.

See you at the Tet Market!