The habit of inviting guests to stay at home for dinner and serving many delicious dishes is familiar to Vietnamese people but strange to some foreign guests.
Park Wow Sung, a Korean blogger who owns a Tik Tok channel with nearly 400,000 likes and a Youtube channel with more than 150,000 followers, regularly shares content about Vietnamese culture. The male blogger lived in Ho Chi Minh City for 15 years, is fluent in Vietnamese and has a passion for Vietnamese cuisine. The Korean male blogger once opened a Vietnamese restaurant in central Seoul.
With a passion for the culture of the S-shaped land, most of the content he posts on social networks uses Vietnamese and shares about Vietnamese food and eating culture.
In a video Wow Sung posted at the end of 2023 on Tik Tok, he shared about the "strange habits of Vietnamese people" when entertaining guests. From real-life experience, Wow Sung said that Vietnamese people who like someone will invite them to their home and enthusiastically invite them to stay for a meal, treating them to delicious dishes.
Wow Sung's video sharing about Vietnamese hospitality culture. Source: TikTok/Wowsung
What surprised him was that the Vietnamese host did not just cook one dish but a tray of many dishes and "forced" the guests to eat them all. In the video, he recorded the scene where a Vietnamese friend invited him to his house to play, making delicious dishes such as steamed sausage, fish soup, and duck. According to the Korean blogger's description, these are specialties "from both land and water".
Wow Sung added that many Vietnamese people have the habit of only "concerning guests when they come to the table", being happy when guests eat well and eat a lot, and sad when guests eat less. Despite the cultural differences, Wow Sung shared that he felt warm and loved when he was welcomed so enthusiastically. The posted video attracted nearly 1 million views and was of interest to the Vietnamese online community. Many people expressed their delight when the male blogger spoke Vietnamese fluently and understood Vietnamese culture.
Most comments agree with Wow Sung's opinion that Vietnamese people are very hospitable. "When visiting relatives' houses, if you are invited to eat, if you refuse, the host will scold you with words like 'if you don't eat, you are not my nephew'," commented a follower of blogger Wow Sung.
Korean blogger makes Vietnamese food by himself. Photo: Wow Sung
Some sharp-eyed Vietnamese people realized that in the video, Wow Sung accidentally committed a taboo in Vietnamese meals, which is to link chopsticks. When reminded by the online community to avoid "linking chopsticks", the Korean male blogger did not understand what this term was and did not know why this action was taboo during meals. Wow Sung enthusiastically thanked the online community for their enthusiastic explanation.
This is not the first time the hospitality of Vietnamese people has impressed foreigners. Blogger Matthew Pike, a reporter for the travel site Culture Trip, who used to live in Saigon, also wrote an article sharing what he loves about Vietnamese people, including hospitality.
"It is not uncommon to see a group of tourists invited into a local home to have dinner with a local. Especially during festivals, you can be treated to delicious food and join parties until late at night. This is something that Vietnamese people always do to create a good impression on international visitors," Matthew Pike wrote.
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