Whenever I’m in the mood for a snacking cake, I reach for palm sugar and coconut cream to make one of my favorite childhood desserts, honeycomb cake (bánh bò thốt nốt). It’s one of the most popular ...

Carnival is here and that means the season for king cake is wide open. Through Mardi Gras this season, we’re sampling far and wide around the king cake realm. Here’s today’s cake: Dough Nguyener's ...

While its new bakery café is still nearing completion in Gretna at 433 Lafayette St., Dough Nguyener’s is already stirring things up with a king cake rife with Vietnamese flavor. Last year, Dough ...

If you love pandan flavour, you'll enjoy this moreish tea cake that gets its name from the curious tunnels that line the cross-section of the cake. For the non-bakers, this cake requires minimal ...

Given that Vietnamese-cuisine restaurants are in the minority of Asian-food eateries in our region, I felt compelled to visit ...

Happy New Year! Or as the Vietnamese say, Chuc mung nam moi! It’s the lucky year of the Dragon — those born between today and February 9, 2013, are predicted to live fortunate, prosperous lives. And ...

This post is part of Fusion’s partnership with The Mash-Up Americans, a site and community that explores culture, race, religion and identity. Every month, we’ll be reposting some of the stories from ...

Have you caught on to the Vietnamese Cajun-crawfish craze yet? If youNve read these pages or the LA Chowhound bulletin board over the past few years, youNd know it started sometime in the past decade ...