mother called me and said she's going to the store and wants to learn how to make banh tet for herself and just to learn. she said that she told CT some of her different ideas and CT was like 'no that's not how you do it' or 'no that won't work'....what a true, the most of them all who ever existed, debbie downer. hence, the beginning of my email

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I wonder what we did for Tet when we were younger. I know we visited family and family visited us. Red envelopes. Later on my mom would start the tradition of going out so that at the new year the first person who entered the house would bring good luck for the year, so she typically would have Viendi or I enter. This year, my whole family fasted ( Read more... )