Update: This story was recently picked up in the Seattle Times Food & Wine section. The Seattle Pho-Natics is a group of random friends and strangers from facebook who visit a different Pho place every month, in order to sample all the local flavors. Fitting enough, the first location that the group ever visited was […]
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From Tet in Seattle to Tet in Australia
Singer Y Phuong, entertaining the audience of more than 30,000 in Bankstown, Sydney. One of the main attractions @ the Australia festival Tet New year of the Cat is the live entertainment show! I thought it was cancelled this year because we couldn’t find the stage. However, through the night we found it hidden on […]
The 2000th Front Cover
Former Seattle Times Reporter Carey Quan Gelernter wrote in an email to Northwest Vietnamese News: “A small Vietnamese newspaper that has survived 25 years, 2000 issues” that is indeed an amazing accomplishment. In 1989, I had the pleasure of meeting your parents and writing about their efforts to serve and bind a community by publishing […]
My early connection to the Vietnamese community through NVTB
Growing up, I never felt that I was really connected to the Vietnamese community in Seattle because whether it was in school or in extracurricular activities that I participated in, I was always one of the only Vietnamese students around. It wasn’t until my book launch at the University of Washington in 2009 that I […]
My Father’s Waterloo—Vietnam, Napoleon and Our Family Vacation
In his new book East Eats West: Writing in Two Hemispheres from Heyday Books, New America Media editor Andrew Lam recalls teenage memories of how his father, once a South Vietnamese general, drove his family all over Belgium to find Waterloo, where his hero, Napoleon, faced defeat. This excerpt is reprinted with permission. There’s a […]
JULIE PHAM: To our dedicated readers
Welcome to the 2000th issue of Người Việt Tây Bắc. Over the past 25 years, we have never missed a single issue. Our hard-working staff has persisted through snow storms, holidays, and major computer failure. And one generation later, we are still here. It is because of you, for you, that we continue to publish […]
