The Economist • 22nd August 2019

Vietnam’s Ghosts Are Hungry for iPhones

The dead in Vietnam aren’t satisfied with traditional offerings, like money. They want modern tech.

Lonely Planet • 23rd December 2023

Motorbikes, A Doomed Love Affair?

The motorbike is an iconic piece of Vietnam's aesthetic. But for how much longer?

Wallpaper* • 10th May 2024

Hồ Chí Minh City: Rising Star

"I’ve observed this city transform over the past 15 years and, in this story, I wanted to couple my own musings with insightful and powerful local voices."

MICHELIN Guide • 24th July 2023

Who Invented Vietnam’s National Dish?

It's complicated.

Going Places (Malaysia Airlines) • 2nd August 2023

Old Flames Die Hard

In a village outside of Hanoi, a new pottery museum offers a contemporary reimagining of Vietnam’s artisanal heritage while offering a peek into the country’s storied and, at times, complicated past.

SilverKris (Singapore Airlines) • 18th September 2023

Aboard The Reunification Express

Perched by the bow-shaped bar, I nurse the last of my mocktail, a liquid rainbow of roselle, lemongrass, mint and passion fruit. The hushed lounge is an unapologetic manifestation of nostalgia for the early 20th century. Rattan blinds and creamy curtains ensconce secluded corners. Dried tropical flowers spring from earthenware vases. As if part of the furniture, two dapper Englishmen perch opposite – though they grumble over laptop screens, not newspapers.

Going Places (Malaysia Airlines) • 6th December 2023

Fabric Reborn

With the help of a Ho Chi Minh City-based brand, an exquisite, all-but-extinct Vietnamese silk fabric enjoys a revival.

Insider • 30th December 2023

One family has been running Hanoi's best fish noodle shop for 20 years. They swear the secret to their success lives in the tree next door.

"It's a goddess. Her name is Bà Đông Cuông."

The Diplomat • 18th June 2020

Hanoi Cafes: The City's Most Important Cultural Spaces

Hanoi, the enigmatic 1000-year-old capital of Vietnam, is a city steeped in legend and layered with intrigue. At the city’s geographical and spiritual heart is the semi-mythical Lake of the Returned Sword, which divides central Hanoi into the chaotic tangle of lanes and alleyways that constitute the Old Quarter to the north, and the grand, tree-lined boulevards that form the French Quarter to the south.

Insider • 29th September 2023

If You Want a Local Taste of Ho Chi Minh City, Book a Night in an Old Apartment Block

As a travel writer who focuses on Vietnam, I visit Ho Chi Minh City regularly and have checked out most of the top hotels. In September, on my most recent visit, I decided to switch things up and stay at an apartment in one of the city's vertical villages instead.

Lonely Planet • 2nd October 2022

Friendly Fire

In 2021, when countries were scrambling for COVID-19 vaccines, villages in Vietnam were pumping out thousand of Pfizer jabs. The world hardly took any notice of how the

Travelfish • 30th December 2020

Vietnam: Beyond the Stereotype

Vietnam is awash with antiquated and orientalist fantasies. Travel media outlets manufacture nostalgia for a colonial heirloom with crowded street kitchens and conical hat-wearing hawkers. Foreign travel companies overrepresent Vietnam’s beaches as if the country exists to serve sun-starved Northeast Asians and Europeans. And although Vietnam has been at peace for over four decades, American films continue to portray a perilous place reeling from war.

Hidden Compass • 12th January 2022

A House of Many Hues

An epic saga of one family's division, displacement, and unwavering dedication to their home in Huế — to the backdrop of postcolonial Vietnam.

Vietnam News • 10th September 2020

Do Foreigners Have the Right to Complain about Countryside Karaoke?

If you haven’t experienced it, you probably don’t get out enough. You arrive for a short break at one of Việt Nam’s quintessential countryside destinations. The views from your rustic lodge are sublime. Streams meander through lofty rice terraces. Pockets of cloud cling to jungle-topped karst mountains. The rice paddies emanate a green so fanciful that it’s bordering on nuclear.

But somebody, somewhere, is howling into a microphone, plunging the celestial landscape into an aural inferno with t

BBC News • 3rd February 2019

Hanoi's Art Space Cafes (Vietnamese)

Ở trung tâm thủ đô, cả về địa lý và tâm hồn là hồ Hoàn Kiếm, chia trái tim thành phố thành những làn đường và ngõ ngách lộn xộn dẫn tới khu phố cổ ở phía Bắc, và những con phố lớn xanh cây nối tới khu phố Pháp ở phía Nam.

Mabuhay (Philippine Airlines) • 1st November 2019

Creative Commune: Hanoi's Raw Arts Quarter

"Please step quietly, there are people living downstairs," warns a waitress as guests tiptoe over creaky weathered floorboards. It's eight o'clock in the evening and they are creeping into Quan Cam, a café that turns into a music venue on Friday evenings, so her request for soundless movement seems a little off key.

+852 (Hong Kong Airlines) • 1st July 2019

Behind Hanoi's Secret Doorways

It’s early evening and camera-wielding sightseers cluster around St Joseph’s Cathedral, the faded but iconic neo-Gothic edifice in Hanoi’s ancient Old Quarter. Overshadowed by the lofty cathedral spires is a crack between the buildings, a barely visible alley leading to a sign- less rusty door. I slip down the alley, ring a buzzer, give my name and pass through
the crimson portal.