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Captured some special moments here at Vietnam's Hung Yen Craft Village Soy Sauce factory! Soy sauce in Vietnam is known as tương or xì dầu, and the most popular type is light soy sauce. Vietnamese tương, however, has a distinctly different taste to its counterparts in other nearby countries. It's typically both lighter and thicker than Chinese light soy sauce, with a slightly sour taste, better complementing the gentle but complex flavors of Vietnamese cuisine.
Vietnamese soy sauce is also made differently to the soy sauces of other countries. Where Chinese soy sauce is made with wheat, this traditional Vietnamese type of soy sauce is made with glutinous rice instead, giving it a noticeably different taste.
The Hung Yen’s Craft Village produces arguably the most delicious soy sauce in Ban Township, Yen Nhan District, Hung Yen Province. In this factory, soybean mold is made from sticky rice spread on shallow bamboo baskets to incubate the mold for one week. Soybeans are...

As an award-winning, multi-accredited fine-art urban landscape photographer and Branch Chair of the Professional Photographers of Canada, I cater to hospitality and travel companies who are looking for stunning photography. There’s nowhere I won't go to get a one-of-a-kind shot, so I get to travel a lot... which I love! I also enjoy helping other photographers advance their skills. I particularly like landscape and travel photography to harness and freeze the “wow moment” you get when you first approach a scene. I capture the moment for me alone, then enjoy the image’s power to share the scene with others, and hopefully give them an experience of their own. I was born and raised, and currently live in Toronto, Ontario, Canada,...