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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[dropcap]D[/dropcap]eep clean your home, settle your debts, and get your haircut. Lunar New Year is just around the corner. In Vietnamese culture, the holiday is known as Tết, and this year it falls on Feb. 1. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Here in the Bay Area, Tết provides no shortage of opportunities to participate in tradition and culture, but the holiday and its seasonal eats aren’t prescribed or stagnant. Diasporic Vietnamese communities have always been proficient at recreating nostalgic homeland flavors with local ingredients—incorporating, for instance, Mexican jalapeno as garnish for what we know as American-style phở. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Now, nearly 50 years after the first wave of refugees arrived in the United States, Vietnamese Americans are still finding ways to augment the foods associated with Tết. In San Francisco, San Jose and beyond, young, 1.5- and second-generation Vietnamese chefs are using banana leaves instead of arrow leaves for rice cakes or lucky sticky rice dyed with red coloring in place of baby jackfruits. In doing so, pop-ups like Het Say Cali, Claws of Mantis and Bánh Chưng Collective pay homage to tradition while also helping to evolve Vietnamese American cuisine—and creating more inclusive, new communities along the way.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hết Sẩy Cali\u003c/span>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/hetsay.cali/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hết Sẩy Cali\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, a colorful pop-up at the Rose Garden Farmers Market in San Jose, approaches Lunar New Year as just one part of its founders’ continued practice in honoring the craftsmanship of regional Vietnamese cuisine—always with plenty of verve and style. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Every Saturday, you’ll find the booth decorated in vibrant Vietnamese opera paraphernalia. Owners DuyAn and Hieu Le, who dress just as colorfully, became engaged after only three days of knowing one another. Their Tết offering is a continuation of their decade-long love story—one that includes a passion for DuyAn’s Miền Tây heritage, the Northern California landscape of Hieu’s upbringing and the couple’s desire to carry on the culinary legacy of Eastside San Jose.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">For a brief while the couple traveled across the Bay Area, until they noticed an aging generation of Vietnamese cooks retiring in their old neighborhood. The slow but steady decline of legacy restaurants inspired the couple to hunker down in San Jose and focus on making their own contribution to the “ESSJ Vietnamese” food scene. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13908704\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13908704\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/het-say_banh-tet-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Overhead view of banh tet, a kind of savory rice cake served on top of a banana leaf.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/het-say_banh-tet-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/het-say_banh-tet-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/het-say_banh-tet-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/het-say_banh-tet-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/het-say_banh-tet-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/het-say_banh-tet-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/het-say_banh-tet-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/het-say_banh-tet-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hết Sẩy Cali’s main Tết offering this year is bánh tét thịt chiên, a kind of savory pan-fried rice cake. \u003ccite>(Hết Sẩy Cali)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">At their Saturday, Jan. 29 farmers market pop-up, the duo will celebrate Tết by passing out lucky red envelopes to children and encouraging customers to dress in áo dài and áo bà ba. This holiday, they’re serving bánh tét thịt chiên, a pan-fried version of the southern Vietnamese steamed glutinous rice cake that’s most commonly filled with pork belly and mung beans. Even as Hết Sẩy references these familiar flavors, Hieu clarifies that he’s “not romanticizing the past either,” unlike older-generation cooks who tend to prefer the 1970s Saigon-centric style of Vietnamese food. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13908709\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13908709\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/het-say_cookie-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"An oatmeal cooking on a plate, on top of a stack of books.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/het-say_cookie-scaled.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/het-say_cookie-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/het-say_cookie-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/het-say_cookie-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/het-say_cookie-768x1024.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/het-say_cookie-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/het-say_cookie-1536x2048.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An oatmeal cookie with hoshigaki and creme fraiche is one of Hết Sẩy’s not-so-traditional Lunar New Year items. \u003ccite>(Hết Sẩy Cali)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">While the Les follow tradition—cooking glutinous rice for over 10 hours with banana leaves, coconut cream, black beans, mung bean puree and pork belly—they also incorporate a very Californian emphasis on artisan ingredients and processes. They source Koda farm glutinous rice for the cylindrical rice cake, and top the dish with pickled dried shrimp, muskmelons, Asian pear and housemade fermented shrimp-and-krill sa tế.\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">On the weekend before the holiday, you’ll also be able to order a serving of thịt kho, Hết Sẩy’s homey version of the classic caramelized pork belly stew.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In addition to their entrees, a special selection of pantry items inspired by trips to Vietnam’s Miền Tây region are available for purchase. Bring home your own full-sized bánh tét or its vegan counterpart, bánh tét chuối sứ, which replaces the pork belly filling with a sweet Southeast Asian banana. To commemorate DuyAn’s hometown specialty, Hết Sẩy offers two types of Chinese sausage: Mekong lạp xưởng, which is air-dried using all-natural ingredients, and lạp xưởng hot vit, a version with salted duck egg. While their homemade tôm ớt sa tế—a funk-filled, umami-packed fermented chili oil made with wild shrimp brine—holds true to form, the real star is the vegan ớt sa tế chay, made with preserved lemons from a maker in DuyAn’s hometown. It brings a one-of-a-kind, pungent zest that can be served with rice and noodles, as a soup base or however you enjoy chili oils.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Busy that weekend and can’t make it to San Jose? Order a Lunar New Year meal kit for pick-up in the East Bay, Peninsula, SF and North Bay exclusive to the\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/discoverpastel/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Pastel delivery service\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. The meal kit contains a flakey patê sô starter; thịt kho served atop bánh tét with pickles; and a fudgy style oatmeal cookie with hoshigaki, creme fraiche and other fixins.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Claws of Mantis\u003c/span>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">When asked to describe \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/clawsofmantis/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Claws of Mantis’\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> cooking style, chef Kevin Trang echoes the founders of Hết Sẩy Cali: “Eastside San Jose Vietnamese food.” The \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://clawsofmantis.com/about\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Michelin-experienced chefs\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> behind the buzzy pop-up restaurant started out selling takeout dinner sets during the first summer of the pandemic, with a menu that interprets memories from Trang’s childhood in the Vietnamese enclave. 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Trang made sure to include all of the important symbolic dishes—banh tét for gratitude to the ancestors, thịt kho for wealth and prosperity, xôi gấc for fortune and joy, mì xào for long life and chives for everlasting eternity. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.instagram.com/p/CLcatNxBkkU/\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“It was for Vietnamese people either missing their families for Tết,” Trang explains, “or people not necessarily knowing why we do the things we do.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The set also included bầu cua tôm cá, a gambling game popular during the holiday (putting our red envelope money to work!), and variations on the game’s rules. Trang realized that each member of his crew grew up with their own way of playing the game: “Everyone had different rules. Sharing different traditions. Making it our way.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This year’s Tết set ($125 for two people) is available for \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CZcZBAqP7vy/?utm_medium=copy_link\">pickup on Sunday, Feb. 6\u003c/a>. It features bánh tét, crab garlic noodles and half a fish sauce–glazed chicken\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bánh Chưng Collective\u003c/span>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Whether you’ve stayed up late making pots of bánh chưng or this is the first time you’ve heard of it, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.banhchungcollective.com/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bánh Chưng Collective\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> welcomes you to their 10th annual workshop on Saturday, Jan. 29 via Zoom. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The workshops began as a way for Diep Tran, the community organizer-turned-restauranter and now R&D chef at \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://redboatfishsauce.com/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Red Boat Fish Sauce\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, to create her own New Year’s traditions. After coming out to her family, she didn’t feel as welcome at Tết gatherings. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I really missed [making bánh chưng],” Tran explains, referring to bánh tét’s northern cousin, the only difference being the cakes’ square shape. “I couldn’t remember how to do it. So maybe, I thought, I could just make it for myself.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Fortunately, she was far from alone. Many of her queer friends had similar experiences with their families—they, too, were “people that also feel like they had to mute themselves when they go to these functions.” Tran’s informal bánh chưng parties helped them build a new sense of community. Together, they formed the Bánh Chưng Collective.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13908707\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 805px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13908707\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/BanhChung.jpg\" alt=\"A spread of ingredients for making banh chung, a northern Vietnamese steamed rice cake.\" width=\"805\" height=\"574\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/BanhChung.jpg 805w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/BanhChung-800x570.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/BanhChung-160x114.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/BanhChung-768x548.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 805px) 100vw, 805px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Bánh Chưng Collective’s virtual workshop will teach participants to prepare bánh chưng—a kind of savory rice cake popular in northern Vietnamese—in the comfort of their own home. \u003ccite>(Bánh Chưng Collective)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">After hosting a second private bánh chưng party in Los Angeles, where she’s based, Tran decided to open the third year’s edition to the public, attracting attendees across generations. When the pandemic forced the workshop online, Tran worried that the collective’s momentum would come to halt. Instead she found that the online format brought in more attendees than ever. This year, over 450 people, from the West Coast to the East, registered for the class. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tran notes that it’s not merely a queer-friendly space, but instead a queer-centered one. She reflects on her own ostracization as a queer woman, and the ways that this collective has allowed her to reclaim her heritage, which she would like to extend to both LGBT and diasporic youth: “If you’re young [and] you don’t have a connection to culture, you’re not making a good bánh chưng. Somehow you think you’re not ‘Vietnamese enough.’ I always start the class telling people to let go of those expectations. We’re not here to perform ‘enough.’” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This year, Bay Area attendees who were lucky enough to order a bánh chưng kit before they sold out can pick them up from the San Francisco-based Vietnamese catering business \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.noodlegirlrestaurant.com/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Noodle Girl\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Chef Hang Truong will include a Đà Lạt style papaya salad, the snack she spent all of her lucky money on as a child. Class begins with Tran demonstrating the overall process over Zoom, and then transitions to small breakout groups where attendees will learn more intimately with an instructor. Small groups will learn how to create banana leaf boxes, assemble the bánh chưng, and cook them on the stovetop or with a pressure cooker. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[pullquote size=\"large\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Diep Tran of the Bánh Chưng Collective\"]“You don’t have to worry about what other generations have done. Culture belongs to you. It belongs to every generation.”[/pullquote]Though the class features bánh chưng at its simplest, Tran encourages curiosity and creativity. In the last decade, the collective has experimented with sous vide bánh chưng, resulting in the “most béo (rich and fatty) bánh chưng ever” and even an Elvis bánh chưng, adding banana, bacon and maple syrup. She encourages students to make bánh chưng with butter, shallots, mushrooms, crab—whatever your heart desires: “We don’t care; we’re a bunch of queers!” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[aside postID='arts_13904913,arts_13908103,arts_13905293']At the end of the class, participants will have four delightful handmade cakes to eat and share with loved ones. Although kits are sold out, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/banh-chung-collective-2022-kit-with-zoom-class-tickets-235348923967\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">tickets are still available for the Zoom class\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> for those who are willing to make a grocery store run for ingredients and supplies. A recording of the session will also be available for those who want to make bánh chưng at their leisure. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">At the heart of these three next-generation Tết offerings is a focus on education and community-building. The chefs behind pop-ups like Hết Sẩy Cali and Claws of Mantis scoff at the notion that “tradition” is rigid and uncompromising. Instead, they celebrate the new year on their own terms by educating customers who haven’t had a chance to learn about their heritage with empathetic welcomes, starting with what’s on the plate.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“They get to engage in culture on their terms,” Bánh Chưng Collective’s Tran says of the Vietnamese Americans who attend her workshops. “You don’t have to worry about what other generations have done. Culture belongs to you. It belongs to every generation.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Update: This article has been updated to include details about Claws of Mantis’ \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tết set—a late addition on the part of the pop-up.\u003c/span>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12904247\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"39\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-160x16.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-240x23.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-375x37.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/hetsay.cali/?hl=en\">Hết Sẩy Cali’s\u003c/a> Jan. 29 Lunar New Year event will take place at the\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.hotplate.com/hetsay\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Rose Garden Farmers Market (577 Dana Ave., San Jose)\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, or order the pop-up’s New Year’s take-home kit for 1/28 and 1/29 pick-up on \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.discoverpastel.com/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Pastel\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/clawsofmantis/?hl=en\">Claws of Mantis’\u003c/a> take-home Tết kit is available for pickup on Sunday, Feb. 6 at Joint Venture Kitchen (167 11th St, San Francisco). Limited quantities are for pre-order on \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.exploretock.com/clawsofmantissanfrancisco\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tock\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/thebanhchungcollective/?hl=en\">Bánh Chưng Collective’s\u003c/a> virtual bánh chưng workshop will take place on Jan. 29, from 10 to 11:30am PT. The prepared kits are sold out, but tickets are still available via \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/banh-chung-collective-2022-kit-with-zoom-class-tickets-235348923967\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Eventbrite\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">D\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>eep clean your home, settle your debts, and get your haircut. Lunar New Year is just around the corner. In Vietnamese culture, the holiday is known as Tết, and this year it falls on Feb. 1. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Here in the Bay Area, Tết provides no shortage of opportunities to participate in tradition and culture, but the holiday and its seasonal eats aren’t prescribed or stagnant. Diasporic Vietnamese communities have always been proficient at recreating nostalgic homeland flavors with local ingredients—incorporating, for instance, Mexican jalapeno as garnish for what we know as American-style phở. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Now, nearly 50 years after the first wave of refugees arrived in the United States, Vietnamese Americans are still finding ways to augment the foods associated with Tết. In San Francisco, San Jose and beyond, young, 1.5- and second-generation Vietnamese chefs are using banana leaves instead of arrow leaves for rice cakes or lucky sticky rice dyed with red coloring in place of baby jackfruits. In doing so, pop-ups like Het Say Cali, Claws of Mantis and Bánh Chưng Collective pay homage to tradition while also helping to evolve Vietnamese American cuisine—and creating more inclusive, new communities along the way.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hết Sẩy Cali\u003c/span>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/hetsay.cali/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hết Sẩy Cali\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, a colorful pop-up at the Rose Garden Farmers Market in San Jose, approaches Lunar New Year as just one part of its founders’ continued practice in honoring the craftsmanship of regional Vietnamese cuisine—always with plenty of verve and style. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Every Saturday, you’ll find the booth decorated in vibrant Vietnamese opera paraphernalia. Owners DuyAn and Hieu Le, who dress just as colorfully, became engaged after only three days of knowing one another. Their Tết offering is a continuation of their decade-long love story—one that includes a passion for DuyAn’s Miền Tây heritage, the Northern California landscape of Hieu’s upbringing and the couple’s desire to carry on the culinary legacy of Eastside San Jose.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">For a brief while the couple traveled across the Bay Area, until they noticed an aging generation of Vietnamese cooks retiring in their old neighborhood. The slow but steady decline of legacy restaurants inspired the couple to hunker down in San Jose and focus on making their own contribution to the “ESSJ Vietnamese” food scene. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13908704\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13908704\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/het-say_banh-tet-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Overhead view of banh tet, a kind of savory rice cake served on top of a banana leaf.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/het-say_banh-tet-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/het-say_banh-tet-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/het-say_banh-tet-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/het-say_banh-tet-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/het-say_banh-tet-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/het-say_banh-tet-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/het-say_banh-tet-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/het-say_banh-tet-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hết Sẩy Cali’s main Tết offering this year is bánh tét thịt chiên, a kind of savory pan-fried rice cake. \u003ccite>(Hết Sẩy Cali)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">At their Saturday, Jan. 29 farmers market pop-up, the duo will celebrate Tết by passing out lucky red envelopes to children and encouraging customers to dress in áo dài and áo bà ba. This holiday, they’re serving bánh tét thịt chiên, a pan-fried version of the southern Vietnamese steamed glutinous rice cake that’s most commonly filled with pork belly and mung beans. Even as Hết Sẩy references these familiar flavors, Hieu clarifies that he’s “not romanticizing the past either,” unlike older-generation cooks who tend to prefer the 1970s Saigon-centric style of Vietnamese food. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13908709\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13908709\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/het-say_cookie-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"An oatmeal cooking on a plate, on top of a stack of books.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/het-say_cookie-scaled.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/het-say_cookie-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/het-say_cookie-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/het-say_cookie-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/het-say_cookie-768x1024.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/het-say_cookie-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/het-say_cookie-1536x2048.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An oatmeal cookie with hoshigaki and creme fraiche is one of Hết Sẩy’s not-so-traditional Lunar New Year items. \u003ccite>(Hết Sẩy Cali)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">While the Les follow tradition—cooking glutinous rice for over 10 hours with banana leaves, coconut cream, black beans, mung bean puree and pork belly—they also incorporate a very Californian emphasis on artisan ingredients and processes. They source Koda farm glutinous rice for the cylindrical rice cake, and top the dish with pickled dried shrimp, muskmelons, Asian pear and housemade fermented shrimp-and-krill sa tế.\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">On the weekend before the holiday, you’ll also be able to order a serving of thịt kho, Hết Sẩy’s homey version of the classic caramelized pork belly stew.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In addition to their entrees, a special selection of pantry items inspired by trips to Vietnam’s Miền Tây region are available for purchase. Bring home your own full-sized bánh tét or its vegan counterpart, bánh tét chuối sứ, which replaces the pork belly filling with a sweet Southeast Asian banana. To commemorate DuyAn’s hometown specialty, Hết Sẩy offers two types of Chinese sausage: Mekong lạp xưởng, which is air-dried using all-natural ingredients, and lạp xưởng hot vit, a version with salted duck egg. While their homemade tôm ớt sa tế—a funk-filled, umami-packed fermented chili oil made with wild shrimp brine—holds true to form, the real star is the vegan ớt sa tế chay, made with preserved lemons from a maker in DuyAn’s hometown. It brings a one-of-a-kind, pungent zest that can be served with rice and noodles, as a soup base or however you enjoy chili oils.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Busy that weekend and can’t make it to San Jose? Order a Lunar New Year meal kit for pick-up in the East Bay, Peninsula, SF and North Bay exclusive to the\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/discoverpastel/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Pastel delivery service\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. The meal kit contains a flakey patê sô starter; thịt kho served atop bánh tét with pickles; and a fudgy style oatmeal cookie with hoshigaki, creme fraiche and other fixins.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Claws of Mantis\u003c/span>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">When asked to describe \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/clawsofmantis/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Claws of Mantis’\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> cooking style, chef Kevin Trang echoes the founders of Hết Sẩy Cali: “Eastside San Jose Vietnamese food.” The \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://clawsofmantis.com/about\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Michelin-experienced chefs\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> behind the buzzy pop-up restaurant started out selling takeout dinner sets during the first summer of the pandemic, with a menu that interprets memories from Trang’s childhood in the Vietnamese enclave. 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It features bánh tét, crab garlic noodles and half a fish sauce–glazed chicken\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bánh Chưng Collective\u003c/span>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Whether you’ve stayed up late making pots of bánh chưng or this is the first time you’ve heard of it, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.banhchungcollective.com/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bánh Chưng Collective\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> welcomes you to their 10th annual workshop on Saturday, Jan. 29 via Zoom. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The workshops began as a way for Diep Tran, the community organizer-turned-restauranter and now R&D chef at \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://redboatfishsauce.com/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Red Boat Fish Sauce\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, to create her own New Year’s traditions. After coming out to her family, she didn’t feel as welcome at Tết gatherings. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I really missed [making bánh chưng],” Tran explains, referring to bánh tét’s northern cousin, the only difference being the cakes’ square shape. “I couldn’t remember how to do it. So maybe, I thought, I could just make it for myself.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Fortunately, she was far from alone. Many of her queer friends had similar experiences with their families—they, too, were “people that also feel like they had to mute themselves when they go to these functions.” Tran’s informal bánh chưng parties helped them build a new sense of community. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It started out as a way to reduce food waste. “I was looking into what to do with leftover mooncake skins,” explains Annie Wang, who runs the vegan home bakery \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.anniestcakes.com/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Annie’s T Cakes\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> out of her Uptown Oakland apartment. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The answer, Wang discovered, was mooncake biscuits. According to Chinese custom, bakers would put a small portion of mooncake dough in the oven to test its temperature. Eventually, they started forming these test batches \u003ca href=\"https://www.therakyatpost.com/taste/2021/09/20/little-piggy-biscuits-rediscovering-a-fast-disappearing-mid-autumn-festival-tradition/\">into the shape of little pigs\u003c/a> and selling them as a standalone item—an inexpensive alternative to the mooncakes proper, minus their luxurious lotus seed and salted egg yolk fillings. Kids, in particular, love the biscuits, which Wang describes as being akin to a flaky, not-too-sweet cookie. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In Hong Kong, Malaysia and elsewhere in the Chinese diaspora, mooncake biscuits are a common sighting during the Mid-Autumn Festival (which typically falls in September or October). But this year Wang decided to feature them in her Lunar New Year snack box—\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.anniestcakes.com/products/lunar-new-year-snack-box\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">just released for preorder\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">—in part because the biscuits are such a rarity in the Bay Area. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Lunar New Year boxes ($30), which also include almond cookies and the more typical filled varieties of mooncake, will be available for pickup in Oakland from Jan. 27–Feb. 1. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">All of the baked treats are 100 percent vegan, in keeping with the bakery’s overall mission to veganize traditional East Asian sweets. Armed with a cottage food license and an arsenal of plant-based egg and dairy substitutes, Wang says she hopes efforts like hers will help create a better, more sustainable food system.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13908107\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13908107\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/annies-t-cakes_LunarNewYear-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A variety of Chinese baked goods—including a mooncake and an almond cookie—arranged on a plate.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/annies-t-cakes_LunarNewYear-scaled.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/annies-t-cakes_LunarNewYear-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/annies-t-cakes_LunarNewYear-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/annies-t-cakes_LunarNewYear-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/annies-t-cakes_LunarNewYear-768x1024.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/annies-t-cakes_LunarNewYear-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/annies-t-cakes_LunarNewYear-1536x2048.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Lunar New Year’s treat box also features almond cookies and regular mooncakes. \u003ccite>(Annie's T Cakes)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">As it did for so many other Americans, the pandemic brought Wang face to face with the hard realization that “a full-time job is not necessarily as stable as we thought.” When she was laid off from her marketing job in May of 2020, she dove headfirst into her passion for food tech and vegan baking, spending the better part of the year on recipe development. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Her first breakthrough wound up becoming the item that Annie’s is best known for: a plant-based version of \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.anniestcakes.com/products/taiwanese-pineapple-cake-original\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Taiwanese pineapple cakes\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, or fengli su, probably Taiwan’s most iconic snack cake. Wang, who is Chinese American, grew up eating the cakes, and she says it only took her three tries to come up with an eggless recipe that hit all the right notes, with a buttery (but butter-free) shortbread crust and jammy pineapple filling. Conveniently, the cakes are also gluten-free.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Meanwhile, for Lunar New Year, Wang is excited to introduce her vegan mooncake biscuits to customers who aren’t familiar with them. “They’re really satisfying to eat, and you can eat a lot of them,” she says. “It’s not a heavy snack.” In Hong Kong or Singapore, the little pig-shaped biscuits are typically sold in baskets that are meant to look like cages—which, Wang says, “as a vegan is less fun for me to think about.” So, Wang’s version isn’t modeled after a pig at all. Instead, she stuck with a more traditional-looking engraved mooncake design, though she’s playing around with other shapes for the future.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[aside postID='arts_13906738,arts_13905832,arts_13897868']\u003c/span>The bakery is also selling kits for preparing \u003ca href=\"https://www.anniestcakes.com/products/tang-yuan-soup-kit\">tang yuan soup\u003c/a>, a rice flour–based dessert that\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">’\u003c/span>s also commonly eaten during Lunar New Year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Growing up, Wang remembers that Lunar New Year was all about family time: making dumplings, playing mahjong, watching Chinese comedy skits on TV that she couldn’t understand. Wang’s Lunar New Year box is well suited for that kind of small, intimate gathering—the kind most people will be having to ring in the Year of the Tiger this coming month. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“It’s not a great time for the world,” Wang says. “But one of the small side benefits of the pandemic is a lot of people really got closer to their smaller circle.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12904247\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"39\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-160x16.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-240x23.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-375x37.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The \u003ca href=\"https://www.anniestcakes.com/\">Annie’s T Cakes\u003c/a> Lunar New Year Box ($30) is available for preorder through Jan. 18, with pickup at Little Giant Ice Cream (1951 Telegraph Ave., Oakland) Jan. 27–Feb. 1. 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"content": "\u003cp>A few days before last year’s \u003ca href=\"https://chineseparade.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chinese New Year Festival and Parade\u003c/a>, Donna Ng said nothing was going to keep her away from celebrating on the streets with her community—not even the mysterious disease that was starting to spread across the globe, causing some U.S. cities to cancel their New Year festivities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think it’s going to affect the parade,” the longtime San Francisco resident said at the time in an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11800359/coronvirus-fears-wont-stop-sf-lunar-new-year-festivities\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">interview with KQED\u003c/a>. “We’re talking thousands and thousands and thousands of people, and only a handful are sick.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13892556\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13892556\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/RS41150_Donna-Ng-qut-1832x1374-1-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/RS41150_Donna-Ng-qut-1832x1374-1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/RS41150_Donna-Ng-qut-1832x1374-1-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/RS41150_Donna-Ng-qut-1832x1374-1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/RS41150_Donna-Ng-qut-1832x1374-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/RS41150_Donna-Ng-qut-1832x1374-1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/RS41150_Donna-Ng-qut-1832x1374-1.jpg 1832w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Longtime San Francisco Chinese New Year supporter Donna Ng photographed with a Year of the Rat float right before the 2020 festivities. \u003ccite>(Chloe Veltman/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Last year, San Francisco city officials allowed the New Year street festival and parade—one of the oldest and largest in the country—to proceed, even as the COVID-19 pandemic threatened to shut down most local businesses and large public gatherings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, things are very different.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We obviously didn’t realize how bad the coronavirus was,” said Ng, reflecting back on 2020 in a video interview with KQED this past week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ng said she has been mostly housebound in San Francisco over the past year, taking care of her 93-year-old mother. She’s seen her property management business plummet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s been tons of vacancies and I can’t fill them,” Ng said. “It’s been hard.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Ng said she’s really going to miss the annual Chinese New Year parade, which has been canceled because of the pandemic. She’s been involved with it for around 30 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really sad,” said Ng.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know that everyone would love to come out to watch the lion dances, the dragon dances, the dancers, hear the firecrackers and stuff like that,” said parade organizer William Gee. “Unfortunately, we just felt it would be irresponsible of us to actually hold a live performance this year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gee said his team decided to cancel the 2021 parade late last summer after consulting with city health officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he said it’s still important to help the community feel connected to traditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So for the first time, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ktvu.com/news/sf-chinese-new-year-parade-canceled-in-2021\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">annual TV special\u003c/a>, scheduled for Feb. 20, will attempt to translate elements from what would have been the live festivities to the screen, such as the appearance of some of the sponsored floats that would under normal circumstances be seen trundling along the city streets on parade day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Despite the pandemic, we haven’t given up,” said Ethel Reddy, the Lunar New Year celebration’s community liaison for longtime event sponsor Bank of America. She said the bank’s float will be revealed as part of the TV special. “We found new ways to continue with traditions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The TV special will also feature a video appearance by this year’s grand marshal—\u003ca href=\"https://chineseparade.com/2021/02/08/bay-area-native-jon-m-chu-named-grand-marshal/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bay Area native Jon Chu\u003c/a>, best known for directing \u003cem>Crazy Rich Asians\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This will be the first time we’ve done something like this,” Gee said. “Typically the grand marshal rides in a car along with the parade.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there are still one or two ways to experience the Year of the Ox outdoors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The event’s main sponsor, Southwest Airlines, plans to display its float publicly, albeit in stationary fashion, at Pier 27 on the weekends of Feb. 13-14 and Feb. 20-21.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the parade organizers have also commissioned local artists to adorn 11 life-sized, beautifully painted \u003ca href=\"https://chineseparade.com/ox-on-parade/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ox sculptures\u003c/a> scattered around the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13892557\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13892557\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/RS47190_IMG_5103-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/RS47190_IMG_5103-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/RS47190_IMG_5103-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/RS47190_IMG_5103-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/RS47190_IMG_5103-qut-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/RS47190_IMG_5103-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/RS47190_IMG_5103-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Monique Zhang poses with her ox outside city hall. \u003ccite>(Chloe Veltman/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>An \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1DxZn8FNFP24X2eufBqMktCz8-_7FnuKp&ll=37.71505217343373%2C-122.3547414&z=12\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">online map\u003c/a> shows the locations of the artworks, which are on display through Mar. 14, and the event organizers have launched a \u003ca href=\"https://chineseparade.com/contest/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">social media photo contest\u003c/a>, encouraging members of of the public to submit selfies with the colorful bovines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most people think the ox is a forceful beast,” said San Francisco artist and fashion designer \u003ca href=\"http://www.chinatownfashionweek.com/?speaker=monique-zhang\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Monique Zhang\u003c/a>, whose ox sculpture is bright yellow and orange with cute, little heart shaped flowers adorning its cheeks. “But actually in nature it’s a very gentle giant.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zhang’s artwork is located on the plaza across the street from city hall. She said the ox represents hard work, patience, honesty—qualities everyone could use right now. \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[aside postid='arts_13892437']\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People are so much afraid of each other now because we can’t see where the virus is,” Zhang said. “But the heart within yourself can generate fearlessness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even though I wish we could have the real parade, the ox project really makes me happy,” said Deyi Robin Zhao, a young Oakland-based student at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cca.edu/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">California College of the Arts\u003c/a> and the artist behind two of the ox sculptures. One is a modern take on traditional blue and white Chinese porcelain motifs (located at Sacramento Plaza), and the other, adorned in pink blossoms and located at Portsmouth Square, highlights themes of springtime, strength and peace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13892558\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 750px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13892558\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/RS47191_Robin-bofa-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"542\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/RS47191_Robin-bofa-qut.jpg 750w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/RS47191_Robin-bofa-qut-160x116.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Deyi Robin Zhao works on one of her two ox sculptures. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Deyi Robin Zhao)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>\u003c/b>“We still want to pass the love for our community and tell our community that even though we’re in this hard pandemic year, we’re still here for everybody and art still lives in our hearts with these oxen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Chinese people in the Bay Area have been hit very hard this past year. They’ve been a target of xenophobic rhetoric and \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/08/us/asian-american-attacks-bay-area/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">attacks\u003c/a>. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Things have been bad for business too. According to San Francisco’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.chinatowncdc.org/8-about-us?start=4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chinatown Community Development Center\u003c/a>, small Chinese-owned businesses usually make 30% of their annual income in the lead up to the new year celebrations — so, as a result of the pandemic, they’ll be seeing a major drop this year. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">That’s why longtime fan Ng said it’s especially important for people to feel a sense of community pride right now. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to celebrating Lunar New Year as usual at home, with fresh flowers, customary foods like chicken and oranges, and hongbaos\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (the small red paper envelopes filled with money that people give to each other as gifts) Ng is also looking forward to heading out in the coming week or two to check out the ox sculptures. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ng said she has been mostly housebound in San Francisco over the past year, taking care of her 93-year-old mother. She’s seen her property management business plummet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s been tons of vacancies and I can’t fill them,” Ng said. “It’s been hard.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Ng said she’s really going to miss the annual Chinese New Year parade, which has been canceled because of the pandemic. She’s been involved with it for around 30 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really sad,” said Ng.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know that everyone would love to come out to watch the lion dances, the dragon dances, the dancers, hear the firecrackers and stuff like that,” said parade organizer William Gee. “Unfortunately, we just felt it would be irresponsible of us to actually hold a live performance this year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gee said his team decided to cancel the 2021 parade late last summer after consulting with city health officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he said it’s still important to help the community feel connected to traditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So for the first time, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ktvu.com/news/sf-chinese-new-year-parade-canceled-in-2021\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">annual TV special\u003c/a>, scheduled for Feb. 20, will attempt to translate elements from what would have been the live festivities to the screen, such as the appearance of some of the sponsored floats that would under normal circumstances be seen trundling along the city streets on parade day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Despite the pandemic, we haven’t given up,” said Ethel Reddy, the Lunar New Year celebration’s community liaison for longtime event sponsor Bank of America. 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"content": "\u003cp>Lunar New Year hits on Monday and with \u003ca href=\"http://factfinder.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.xhtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">more than half a million ethnic Chinese\u003c/a> living in the Bay Area, it’s a big deal here. It’s a big deal for many Asian cultures, but the huge influx immigrants from China to work in Silicon Valley in recent years has stimulated the region’s excitement around this holiday season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Traditionally, festivities begin the day before the New Year, a date decided by the Chinese lunar calendar — which is why it feels like the start varies year to year — and continues on for two weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/245606170″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=’166′ iframe=”true” /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for Bay Area families, there’s an extra kickoff festivity this year: the Super Bowl. The timing is such it’s possible to tune in to the big game Sunday afternoon, and then switch over afterwards to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCo3T0jF2PAD_KxqWiruqcDg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">gala broadcast\u003c/a> from mainland China, joining well over a billion viewers around the world. (Just a few more than \u003ca href=\"http://money.cnn.com/2015/02/02/media/super-bowl-ratings/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">watch the Super Bowl\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the gala comes a plethora of festivals, which are happening all over the South Bay. New to the celebrations is the \u003ca href=\"http://pa-cpc.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Palo Alto Chinese Parents’ Club,\u003c/a> which is co-hosting its first ever Chinese New Year Fair. Like most other fairs, it will include lion dances, martial arts demonstrations, arts and crafts seminars for the kids, and traditional foods like dumplings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11301763\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11301763\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/RS18326_Palo-Alto-Fair-qut-800x379.jpg\" alt=\"The start of a new tradition?\" width=\"800\" height=\"379\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/RS18326_Palo-Alto-Fair-qut-800x379.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/RS18326_Palo-Alto-Fair-qut-400x190.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/RS18326_Palo-Alto-Fair-qut-768x364.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/RS18326_Palo-Alto-Fair-qut-960x455.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/RS18326_Palo-Alto-Fair-qut.jpg 964w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The start of a new tradition? \u003ccite>(Courtesy Palo Alto Chinese Parents’ Club)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This event was designed as a community building event. It’s a platform for the Chinese community and greater community to connect,” says Palo Alto Chinese Parents’ Club co-founder Debra Cen, who helped start the club to help new immigrants integrate with Palo Alto’s community, as well as extend a welcoming hand to those unfamiliar with Chinese culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The money raised from the fair will be donated to the local school district. That, combined with the goal of the fair, is why Cen and her fellow club members are hoping the city of Palo Alto co-sponsors their New Year festivals in years to come.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other Bay Area cities like \u003ca href=\"http://www.redwoodcity.org/residents/redwood-city-events/cultural/lunar-new-year\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Redwood City\u003c/a> already do. As a matter of fact, Redwood City Councilman Jeff Gee not only organizes that local festival — this year it’s on Feb. 27 — he’s also the official photographer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11301762\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11301762 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/RS18323_130223-RWC-LNY-35.JPG-qut-400x600.jpg\" alt=\"A toddler can't help but reach out to check out this lion at a recent Redwood City's Lunar New Year Celebration.\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/RS18323_130223-RWC-LNY-35.JPG-qut-400x600.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/RS18323_130223-RWC-LNY-35.JPG-qut-768x1152.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/RS18323_130223-RWC-LNY-35.JPG-qut-787x1180.jpg 787w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/RS18323_130223-RWC-LNY-35.JPG-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/RS18323_130223-RWC-LNY-35.JPG-qut-1180x1770.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/RS18323_130223-RWC-LNY-35.JPG-qut-960x1440.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A toddler can’t help but reach out to check out this lion at a recent Redwood City’s Lunar New Year Celebration. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Jeff Gee)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We’ll probably have 3-5,000 people from all over the Bay Area. It’s just grown every single year. It’s been pretty amazing,” Gee says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lunar New Year is also a big deal for the Vietnamese, and Ha Vy, who helps organize the \u003ca href=\"http://www.tetvietnamsj.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Vietnam Tet Festival 2016\u003c/a> in San Jose, says she expects 20,000 people to turn up at the Santa Clara County Fairgrounds Feb. 13 & 14. As with Chinese New Year, you can expect to see lion dances, and martial arts demonstrations, but the food will be decidedly Vietnamese: bbq, egg rolls, spring rolls, bánh mì, and the like.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every family has a different way of doing it, but essentially, they all try to come together and spend the holiday together. Like Thanksgiving. It’s the same concept,” Vy says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11301767\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11301767\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/RS18327_VTF-2016-Flyer-Front-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Vietnamese Tet Festival aims to attract a broad audience. Organizer Ha Thy says “We have some people that have been calling from So Cal trying to get tickets.” One person called from Tennessee planning a family reunion in San Jose.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/RS18327_VTF-2016-Flyer-Front-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/RS18327_VTF-2016-Flyer-Front-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/RS18327_VTF-2016-Flyer-Front-qut-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/RS18327_VTF-2016-Flyer-Front-qut-1180x886.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/RS18327_VTF-2016-Flyer-Front-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/RS18327_VTF-2016-Flyer-Front-qut-960x721.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vietnamese Tet Festival aims to attract a broad audience. Organizer Ha Vy says “We have some people that have been calling from So Cal trying to get tickets.” One person called from Tennessee planning a family reunion in San Jose. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Vietnamese Tet Festival)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The music will be different, too. More than 40 years after the fall of Saigon sent a surge of refugees to San Jose, a new generation of Vietnamese-Americans is taking over organizing community events, and they are changing things up \u003cem>just a bit\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As 21-year-old Vy explains, “Sometimes when you have performance that are more geared to the older generation, they’ll drag the children along, but that doesn’t mean the children will enjoy it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While there will be plenty of the classic ballad singers her parents and grandparents love, Vy is much more excited about younger performers they’ve managed to line up, like Mai Tiến Dũng.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/xpHBKn0-lGU?t=2m10s\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He sings very upbeat music. He’s very good looking,” Vy says. “He’s a fantastic performer that will bring in the younger generations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a more classical note, the El Camino Youth Symphony is celebrating the Lunar New Year by hosting Juilliard alum Gwhyneth Chen, who will perform the \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://ecys.site-ym.com/events/EventDetails.aspx?id=667235\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Yellow River Piano Concerto\u003c/a> \u003c/em>on Feb. 6\u003cem>. \u003c/em>And Stanford is holding a \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://panasianmusicfestival.stanford.edu/2016/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Celebration of Asia\u003c/a>\u003c/em>, which will consist of three concerts featuring local musicians from Iran, Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, and Japan, as well as the Forbidden City Chamber Orchestra from China.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”qlDUMgqihGfxyQHb8WspCixmDvLnPmVu”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Feb. 28, \u003ca href=\"http://www.hakone.com/lunar-new-year-festival.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hakone Estate and Gardens\u003c/a> hosts a celebration that features, among other traditional activities, a children’s parade. Last but not least, the San Jose Center for the Performing Arts will host \u003ca href=\"http://sf.cpaasv.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Spring Festival Silicon Valley\u003c/a> on Mar. 5. Like the concerts at Stanford, this festival will have a Pan-Asian flavor, featuring Chinese, Indian, Tajikistan, Dai, Tibetan, and Korean music and dance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, no article about Lunar New Year celebrations in the Bay Area would be complete without paying proper respect to the granddaddy of celebrations in San Francisco, which dates back to the 1860s. Many of the people I talked to intend to make a pilgrimage north on Feb. 20. If you can’t be there physically, you can tune in to watch it on \u003ca href=\"http://www.ktvu.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">KTVU Fox 2\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"http://www.ktsf.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">KTSF Channel 26\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The money raised from the fair will be donated to the local school district. That, combined with the goal of the fair, is why Cen and her fellow club members are hoping the city of Palo Alto co-sponsors their New Year festivals in years to come.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other Bay Area cities like \u003ca href=\"http://www.redwoodcity.org/residents/redwood-city-events/cultural/lunar-new-year\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Redwood City\u003c/a> already do. As a matter of fact, Redwood City Councilman Jeff Gee not only organizes that local festival — this year it’s on Feb. 27 — he’s also the official photographer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11301762\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11301762 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/RS18323_130223-RWC-LNY-35.JPG-qut-400x600.jpg\" alt=\"A toddler can't help but reach out to check out this lion at a recent Redwood City's Lunar New Year Celebration.\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/RS18323_130223-RWC-LNY-35.JPG-qut-400x600.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/RS18323_130223-RWC-LNY-35.JPG-qut-768x1152.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/RS18323_130223-RWC-LNY-35.JPG-qut-787x1180.jpg 787w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/RS18323_130223-RWC-LNY-35.JPG-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/RS18323_130223-RWC-LNY-35.JPG-qut-1180x1770.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/RS18323_130223-RWC-LNY-35.JPG-qut-960x1440.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A toddler can’t help but reach out to check out this lion at a recent Redwood City’s Lunar New Year Celebration. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Jeff Gee)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We’ll probably have 3-5,000 people from all over the Bay Area. It’s just grown every single year. It’s been pretty amazing,” Gee says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lunar New Year is also a big deal for the Vietnamese, and Ha Vy, who helps organize the \u003ca href=\"http://www.tetvietnamsj.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Vietnam Tet Festival 2016\u003c/a> in San Jose, says she expects 20,000 people to turn up at the Santa Clara County Fairgrounds Feb. 13 & 14. As with Chinese New Year, you can expect to see lion dances, and martial arts demonstrations, but the food will be decidedly Vietnamese: bbq, egg rolls, spring rolls, bánh mì, and the like.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every family has a different way of doing it, but essentially, they all try to come together and spend the holiday together. Like Thanksgiving. It’s the same concept,” Vy says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11301767\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11301767\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/RS18327_VTF-2016-Flyer-Front-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Vietnamese Tet Festival aims to attract a broad audience. 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