Traditional craft villages
Red pottery, coconut candy, rice paper, pia cake, sedge mats, flowers and fruit preserves – told by the people who keep the crafts.
- Red brick and pottery from domed kilnsMang Thit pottery villageAlong Thay Cai canal, red domed kilns stand in a row like a small kingdom – where river clay becomes bricks, jars and pots.
- Hand-cooked coconut candyCoconut candy villageIn coconut country, the smell of coconut cream cooking in pans fills the hamlet from early morning. Every candy passes through a dozen hands.
- Coconut rice paperMy Long rice paper villageWood fires are lit by 3 am. By noon, white drying racks line the village lanes.
- Ornamental flowers on raised bedsSa Dec flower villageIn Sa Dec, flowers grow not on the ground but on beds raised over water channels – so they stay dry when the floods come.
- Thousand-layer pia cakeVung Thom pia cake villageThe smell of butter and durian fills the road – you have reached pia cake village.
- Sedge mat weavingDinh Yen mat-weaving villageLooms clatter from dawn to late night, and the mat market opens while everyone else sleeps.
- Preserves from NG's traceable produceFruit & vegetable preserves workshopProduce that is a little odd-looking but still delicious goes to the preserves workshop instead of being wasted – a zero-waste loop.