While I have struggled to adapt to the Vietnamese style of socialising, I must accept that I have also benefited from it, writes Tabitha Carvan.

"Our guests all said they enjoyed their stay, and liked Vietnam a lot, but they wouldn't return," writes Tabitha Carvan.

The word that most crops up when you ask expats in Vietnam about their level of Vietnamese is “plateaued”.

My Vietnamese friends and colleagues express shock when I say that my partner and I travel everywhere by bicycle.

We were all born in the Year of the Snake, and according to Vietnamese belief, we're all likely to be unlucky.

The “Vietnamese Family” will change along with “Economic Development” and “Women’s Equality”. Which is most important?

Vietnamese hospitality always involves enormous amounts of food, which almost always involve an enormous amount of meat, writes Tabitha Carvan.