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Vietnamese designers created áo dài for the contestants in the Miss Universe beauty contest, which was held July 2008 in Nha Trang, Vietnam. [34] The most prominent annual Ao Dai Festival outside of Vietnam is held each year in San Jose, California, a city that is home to a large Vietnamese American community. [ 35 ]
Hai Phong specialties are known throughout Vietnam for their seafood dishes. Seafood restaurants in the Do Son area are famous for having very fresh shrimp, crab, fish, and squid at affordable prices. The seafood processing style in Hai Phong is simple, emphasizing the essence and freshness of ingredients, not spices.
Trương Văn Cam, known by the sobriquet Năm Cam (April 22, 1947 – June 3, 2004) was a notorious Vietnamese mobster who is often called the "Godfather" of Vietnam. Known for building and running a criminal enterprise revolving around gambling dens, hotels, racketeering, extortion, loan sharking and restaurants that fronted for brothels, during his heyday, Năm Cam was considered one of the ...
Hai An hosts key transport connections across roads, waterways, rail, and air, with Lach Tray and Cam rivers surrounding the area and flowing into the Gulf of Tonkin via the Nam Trieu estuary. The district serves as the endpoint of the Hanoi–Hai Phong Expressway and is also traversed by National Highway 5, which connects Hanoi to Hai Phong.
Ngô Quyền is an urban district (quận) of Hai Phong, the third largest city of Vietnam.It is named after King Ngô Quyền who defeated the Chinese at the famous Battle of Bạch Đằng River north of modern Haiphong and ended 1,000 years of Chinese domination dating back to 111 BC under the Han dynasty.
Lying off Nha Trang is the Hon Tre Island (Bamboo Island), with a major resort operated by the Vinpearl Group. The Vinpearl Cable Car, a gondola lift system, links the mainland to the five-star resort and theme park on Hon Tre Island. Nha Trang is a stopover for annual yacht races starting in Hong Kong.
Lê Chân is located in the center of Haiphong and is bordered by Ngo Quyền to the east, An Dương to the west via the Đào Hạ Lý River, Kiến An to the west via the Lạch Tray River, Dương Kinh to the south with the Lạch Tray River forming the southern boundary, and Hồng Bàng to the north.
Khăn vấn is a rectangular textile that is long and quite thick, wrapped tightly around the head. According to the decrees of Nguyễn dynasty written in the Historical chronicle of Đại Nam, the Vietnamese initially remained faithful to the Champa style, but gradually adapted styles to suit needs for each social class.