Landmark
Vy Da
Riverside ward of garden houses where a centuries-old clam-rice trade still simmers in back-lane kitchens.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Vy Da in Hue follows the story of com hen, the city's humble clam rice, back to Con Hen, the sandbank inside this ward where clam-gathering families settled under an early Nguyen lord. It traces a dish born from leftover rice and river clams into what is still ladled out in Vy Da's lanes today. Along the way it touches the ward's garden-house life and the elders who still tend a patch of betel and fruit trees.
This audio guide was created using AI.