Everyone of us can feel the excitement and the warm love when we mention: “Fat meat, pickled onions, red parallel sentences. / New Year pole, strings of firecrackers, green banh Chung.” These are the characteristic flavors of the traditional Vietnamese Lunar New Year. And purple onion (also known as dried onion, onion) is a special ingredient that appears both directly (as a side dish, “pickled onion”) and indirectly (as an ingredient in making banh Chung filling).

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