Catégorie : Vietnam Lifestyle

  The environment is ours and it affects our lives directly. We want a change, but there’ll be nothing left to change if we are all complacent or wait for someone else to fix it. We must take action to save the environment by ourselves and for ourselves …   Thao Hoang and “Noi Khong […]

“We did not have a free-market to purchase things like we have today, so we basically learned to make everything we needed for ourselves.” Thao Vu and Kilomet 109 Son Tinh Original Ruou would like to ask…what is it that inspires you? For us, here at Son Tinh, we have always found inspiration in stories […]

While the football has dominated the screens, streets, hearts, and minds of Vietnam towards the end of 2018, another incredible victory was happening in Saigon when Vu Doan Vien Du took first place at the Campari Bartender Competition Vietnam Finals. The story of the mixologist Vu Doan Vien Du “I was competing against myself mostly,” […]

Vietnam is indelibly social culture. One where family and friends play a huge role in anyone’s life. Celebrations are second nature in Vietnam, whether it’s the first month anniversary of a child’s birth, a more somber death anniversary, or just Vietnam putting another footballing minnow to the sword, the reasons to party come thick and […]

The sweltering summer may be over and in the coming months you’re less likely to have your shadow scorched onto the pavement, but dear reader, things aren’t about to get any easier. Winter is indeed coming and its wrath will be momentously relentless as the sky turns to a blank canvas sweeping over the notoriously […]

You know when you make the decision. In the moment between the idea of a reckless act and its beginning, we are in conflict. But then,  something changes – doubt is relegated to the outer regions of the mind and you have this confidence. I feel it when I cross the road and my hands […]

The signature Vietnamese flavors of Phở, snail dipping sauce, fish sauce, and pickled cabbages can be recreated into some of the most attractive cocktails. In fact, a new genre of food-inspired cocktails is taking Vietnam by storm, of which one of the pioneers was mixologist Phạm Tiến Tiếp. The stories Tiếp told Son Tinh revolved around cocktails and the […]

This Parisian mixologist is making waves on the Hanoi cocktail scene since opening Savage club and lounge. His unique spirit of authenticity and individuality makes him the perfect candidate for Son Tinh’s Mixologist of the Month title… Fabien Marcault from Savage Lounge Savage Lounge may only be seven months old, but this exciting venue is […]

Manners maketh man, according to Kingsman’s gentlemanly mentor Harry Hart. Now Hanoi has its own pair of inspired gents to enlighten Hanoi’s men in the ways of true gentlemanly style… Founded by Dutch duo Tom Goedhart and Guido de Leeuw, the premium men’s barber House of Barbaard opened for business in January 2017. Friends since […]

  Entering the music scene with the rigorous classical genres, surrounded by iron-clad rules, Vũ Nhật Tân found himself a path less travelled named Contemporary and Experimental music. Decades later, he is still ardently treading the same path to fulfill his need for individual creative expressions …. Vũ Nhật Tân and Contemporary and Experimental music […]