{"id":285806,"date":"2026-07-03T13:05:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T13:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/285806\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T13:05:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T13:05:10","slug":"in-new-york-a-food-stylist-serves-a-joyful-banquet-inspired-by-vietnams-imperial-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/285806\/","title":{"rendered":"In New York, a Food Stylist Serves a Joyful Banquet Inspired by Vietnam\u2019s Imperial City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The heartiest course, b\u00e1nh canh b\u1ed9t x\u1eaft, brought hand-cut rice noodles in a blue crab broth with crab cake, quail eggs, Vietnamese coriander, and green peppercorn\u2014plus hand wipes and plastic gloves. Like nearly everything else on the menu, the noodles were made entirely from scratch. Thu\u2019s team hand-cut roughly 65 kilos of noodles, one of many marathon prep sessions undertaken in pursuit of authenticity. \u201cIt was a labor of love,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>The handcrafted details extended beyond the plate. The crystal-shaped paper lanterns casting a warm amber glow on each table had been made in Hu\u1ebf and shipped to New York, while a large screen flickered with footage the couple filmed from a recent research trip to Vietnam, learning from family artisans and sourcing speciality ingredients.<\/p>\n<p>The lantern dessert at the end of the night, too, was born from that trip, where the couple lit lanterns on an evening boat ride on Hu\u1ebf&#8217;s Perfume River. \u201cSince Hu\u1ebf is such a quiet city, there was something so soulful about watching them drift away,\u201d Thu said. Taylor became inspired to recreate the feeling for the dinner, spending months prototyping illuminated lantern boxes while Thu refined the desserts they would carry.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Image may contain Krystal Jung K\u014dkichi Tsuburaya Architecture Building Dining Room Dining Table Furniture and Indoors\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ResponsiveImageContainer-dkeESL cQPiWi responsive-image__image\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/20260618_ANCO8_065.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Photo: Isa Zapata<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The heartiest course, b\u00e1nh canh b\u1ed9t x\u1eaft, brought hand-cut rice noodles in a blue crab broth with crab&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":285807,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[70649,9,11,10],"class_list":["post-285806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-dinner-party","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285806\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}