In the early 1950s, actor Cary Grant booked a room at the luxurious Mayfair Hotel, located in the heart of St. Louis (USA). He is a regular customer of this place. Grant’s game of romance has established a tradition in high-end hotels. Photo: Imdb. At this time, Grant was married to his third wife – actress Besty Drake. However, he made an appointment with another mistress here. At the Mayfair Hotel, Grant played a game with his mistress. This has indirectly created the tradition of ordering chocolate of many hotels today. Before his mistress came to the room, Grant asked the hotel staff to arrange the chocolate in long streaks. It starts in the living room, runs into the bedroom, goes up to the bed and stops on the pillow. Attached is a letter whose contents and identity have not been revealed so far. The Mayfair manager heard about the game and liked Grant’s idea. This person asked the staff to put chocolate on the customer’s pillow when renting a room at the hotel. Putting chocolate on pillows helps hotels win the hearts of customers. Photo: Slon. After that, many hotels have applied this formula and received positive feedback from customers. Mayfair discontinued this around the early 2010s. However, they revived the tradition with chocolate from Bissinger in August 2014.

New Yorkers are happy to return to normal life after being vaccinated against Covid-19. Photo: AP According to the AP news agency, starting May 19, New Yorkers and Americans who have received the Covid-19 vaccine can remove their masks in most situations and restaurants, shops, and gyms. Many other businesses can also reopen at full capacity if they make sure all patrons are vaccinated. This week, the subway will operate around the clock. The midnight curfew for bars and restaurants will end later this month. Broadways tickets are on sale again, although the shows won’t start until September. Now is the time for New York to shed the image of a city that was defeated by the virus last spring and bounce back, as it was featured on the latest cover of The New Yorker, US officials said. It was an image of a giant door that partially opened the horizon to let a ray of light in. Can New York go back to the way it was? “Probably 75%…It will definitely come back,” says Mark Kumar, 24, a personal trainer. However, Ameen Deen, 63, said: ‘Full sense of normalcy won’t come anytime soon. There are too many deaths, too much suffering and inequality.” Last spring, the largest city in the US was the deadliest coronavirus hotspot in the US with more than 21,000 deaths in just two months. Black patients of Hispanic descent have higher mortality rates than whites and Asian Americans. Photo: AP Hospitals are overflowing with patients and corpses. Cold trailers were used as makeshift morgues and tents were set up in Central Park as a makeshift hospital to treat Covid-19. The bustling streets of New York became quiet, making room for ambulance sirens and nighttime applause from the windows of paramedic apartments. After more than a year of uncertainty, closure and reopening, the city hopes vaccinations will make things better. To date, about 48% of New Yorkers have received at least one dose of the Covid-19 vaccine. The number of deaths, infections and hospitalizations from Covid-19 has dropped sharply in recent weeks. Many parts of the US and the world are gradually returning to normal after the Covid-19 crisis, which has claimed the lives of 3.4 million people globally, including more than 587,000 in the US. . Las Vegas casinos are reopening at 100% capacity with no social distancing requirements. Disneyland in California also reopened late last month after shutting down for 400 days. Massachusetts also announced that all restrictions related to Covid-19 will end at the end of Memorial Day weekend. France also reopened yesterday, with the Eiffel Tower, cafes and cinemas, and the Louvre also welcoming visitors for the first time in months. Hoai Linh

“Here, if you want to hurry, you have to go early, at around 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm when the shop first opens, the more late the night, the longer the queue will be until midnight. If you go on weekends, you must queue at all times ”, Nhu Quyen (living in District 11), a regular customer of the restaurant, told Zing . Ms. Dung tea shop has only two people making and a table for all tools and materials for preparation. Today, due to her late arrival, Quyen and her husband had to queue for more than 30 minutes to buy 3 glasses of water. The couple had to continuously take turns letting one person line up, the other rested and looked after the car. Just received the cup from the shop owner, Quyen’s husband quickly plugged the straw and passed it to his wife. The client used to take a drink, nearly half a glass of water had run out. “The water here is delicious and cheap. A glass of about ten and a few thousand only. This hot season has nothing to drink. But if I buy it here, I have to wait in line for a long time, ”Quyen said while wiping the sweat on his face. Line up until 2am Her peach tea shop Ha Thi Dung (56 years old) does not have a signboard, but still has two names given by customers. In addition to Co Dung Mashed Peach Tea, which is named after the owner of the shop and the typical water dish of the shop, this place is also known by many people as “Tra Doi”. The shop is open for sale from 19:30 to 2 am the next morning and is always in a crowded state. There are only two people selling, so it is almost impossible to work without a break for 6 hours. All mixing tools and ingredients are neatly arranged on a table, above is hung an electric light for both lighting and customer identification. The more guests come at night, the more crowded the customers are, especially on weekends. Tea Wait also does not have a menu. However, in turn, any customer who is that customer can read the names of the drinks that need to be purchased. While the shopkeeper brews water, buyers also prepare bags, straws, and even calculate cash in hand to save time, making latecomers wait longer. When asked about the restaurant’s best food, the guests waiting could tell about a dozen dishes: pickled peach tea, milk-sweetened blueberries, milk orange, blueberry syrup, pickled strawberries … And concluding a sentence: “But everything here is delicious”. Mr. Nhu (23 years old) said that she comes here almost every weekend with a group of friends. One day Nhu’s group arrived after midnight and had to line up until almost 2:00 in the morning to buy water. “After buying water, we pick up the chairs on the sidewalk to sit eight until almost morning. We like this place because the water is delicious, there are many dishes and the price is for students. The queue is a bit long but on weekends, so sometimes it’s also free. Just take turns waiting, the rest just sit and talk ”. Meanwhile, Mr. Thanh (37 years old) knew about Co Dung’s digging tea shop through online reviews. Curious, he wanted to wait in line for a drink, but after 15 minutes of waiting and still not his turn, he gave up. “I heard it was crowded, but I didn’t expect it to be this crowded. I guess I have time to come back in line, drink it to see what it tastes like, ”Mr. Thanh said. Peach tea “wait but not upset” The owner of the tea shop, Ms. Dung, said her shop has been selling for more than 30 years, at the corner of Nguyen Chi Thanh street intersecting Duong Tu Giang. “Because there is not enough rent for the premises, I only sell the evening. Also thanks to the people around for help, creating conditions so it can be sold until now ”, said Ms. Dung while still slowly making tea and peach beams for customers. The restaurant’s water dishes such as pickled peach tea, milk pickled blueberries, pineapple ginseng … cost 10,000-15,000 VND. Meticulously selecting each apple, counting the amount of syrup and condensed milk to put in a cup, Ms. Dung confided many times that many customers are also impatient, but not so that it can be reckless. “Everyone who came here had to wait in line, so I had to work hard to make delicious water, according to the customer.” Having just visited the restaurant a few times, but Ha Thi (living in District 5) is especially impressed with the service attitude of the owner. Regardless of any request from customers such as less sweet, more sour, proportion of ice…, Ms. Dung happily responded. “Once I bought it on a long way, I was afraid that the drink was no longer delicious, she enthusiastically advised. Although the shop is crowded and has to wait a long time, she is always happy, never upset, ”Thi said. According to many customers, another plus point of this sidewalk tea shop is that it has almost no price increases. The drinks here are less than 20,000 VND, the typical peach tea dish of the restaurant is only about 11,000 VND, 14,000 VND in blueberry. “I drank at this restaurant from 2017-2018. After the epidemic, I thought the price would increase like many other places. But now the price remains the same, unchanged ”, Nhu Quyen (27 years old) said.

“My impression is that there are many tombs around the shop around the shop. However, the shop does not cause fear because the uncles and aunts say that they are all grandparents, ancestors in the family. In addition, the hot pot here has a delicious taste, richness, and affordable prices. Today I bought 2 large hot pot, ordered more beef, noodles, vegetables, only 200,000 VND per serving, ”Phu told Zing . Graveyard hotpot has a special name, flavor is bold, affordable price. Feeling like Trong Phu, the family of Mrs. Hai’s beef hot pot restaurant (born in 1962) is loved by many people around and many young people in Ho Chi Minh City. Around 19 pm is the most crowded place, most of the guests are young people, students, students, and office workers. Ms. Le Thi Hong Can (32 years old, daughter of Hai) is busy selling, while taking advantage of a conversation with reporters. “The name of the graveyard beef hotpot is because the guests come to eat and see many graves around, so they call each other so that it is easy to remember, also to show the way more convenient. These graves belong to grandparents in the family that died decades ago, ”she said. Unique name given by guests Years ago, Cẩn’s mother stayed at home as a housewife. Thanks to a friend pointing out the recipe for hot pot, the whole family opened the restaurant and has been attached until now. “The shop opened in 1997, from the past up to now, it only sells at night. At weekends, people come crowded, sometimes queuing for a few dozen minutes to have a table, when late there is no more to sell, ”Ms. Can shared. Thanh Cong (20 years old, Binh Thanh district) knows about this hot pot restaurant through posts on social networks. Even though he has to travel more than ten kilometers, he always comes here to eat hot pot once a week. The beef hot pot restaurant attracts many young customers, mostly students, students and office workers. “Initially reading the article online, I was curious to see that there were tombstones around the shop. The shop is dark, but the customers are crowded and the lights are on. Going a bit away, but the service is enthusiastic, affordable price and the hot pot flavor is very typical, ”Cong said. “Hot pot is pre-stewed and boiled in a thick cast iron pot, when given to the table for guests, it will be placed on the clay stove, burning with coal, so it burns moderately, the beef is stewed thoroughly, sweet and fragrant, tendons and cartilage are also very soft. “Cong described. Thanh Hoa (26 years old, living in District 2) said she and her group of friends stopped at around 9:00 pm last Thursday, at that time the shop had stopped accepting customers, so they had to go home with pity. Today, she and two friends came because “decided to eat the famous beef hotpot”. “It is reasonable to come here at around 17-18 am, but if it is from 19 to 20, you have to wait, sometimes you have to queue, and 9 pm will definitely end. Hot pot is delicious, the space is airy and comfortable, so I feel a waste of effort. a little is fine “. The popular hotpot restaurant supports the whole family Mrs. Doan Thi Thu, the biological sister of Ms. Hai, has been an assistant in the business since the shop opened. “Not only my sisters, but also the husband, and the children in the family all contributed to the work. People go to school and work, but when they come back from the afternoon they sell together, the employees all over the family, do not have to hire anyone. I have two children, one is a preschool teacher, one is going to university this year. Just come home to store the car, change clothes and come here to help sell it. ” Thanks to opening a shop in a private house, there is no cost to rent space, so Mrs. Thu’s family always tries to keep the price affordable. The shop is open in a private house and the staff are family members, so the cemetery beef hotpot has an affordable price. “In the old days, when opened, each hot pot cost 30,000 VND. When the prices went up, the raw materials were too expensive, we had to increase the price. The current level is 150,000 VND / full pot ”, Ms. Thu said. As a popular hot pot restaurant, but her family always takes care from raw materials to processing and serving to satisfy every guest. All ingredients such as beef, vegetables, noodles are imported from termites, ensuring quality and have not changed for more than 20 years. “Materials are delivered to the house. The pot of soup is stewed from 7:00 am to afternoon, my sister is the one who chooses and checks the stages. Each of us has one thing to do together, so we are not too tired, our whole family is more comfortable ”. For many years, Mrs. Thu’s joy is when customers come more and more and are satisfied with her food. “In the rainy season, the way to the restaurant was deeply flooded, many days the whole family intended to rest, but seeing customers wading in to eat, so they opened for sale. The whole family has almost no day off. I’m also warm ”, she confided.

The most crowded restaurant is around 19:00 – 21:00, most of the customers are young people. “I ate Van snails since the shop also sold outside the Ben Thanh night market until they moved to Nguyen An Ninh. I met famous people at this restaurant, the next time I was married to Tang Thanh Ha, the day I met Le Quyen, Tran Thanh, Mi Du, many actors, models come here very often ”, Ms. Trang (district Tan Binh) – a regular customer of Van Van for 12 years – told Zing . Trang’s family has been a regular guest of Van Van for more than 10 years. Before the epidemic, Trang said, the area was very cramped because the restaurants were crowded with many tourists. During this time, many shops stopped doing business, so customers like her were allowed to go out and sit more comfortably and comfortably. “I have eaten many snail shops. Anywhere I heard that it was delicious, I went, but eating at snail is still the most stable. It’s not cheap in the center, but because it’s delicious, I don’t care about the price. I find the best avocado-related dishes here, such as butter-fried fat snails, garlic snails sautéed with cheese. Family of 3 generations selling snails Quan Vi Hao (24 years old), son of the owner of Van snail shop, said that the family has a 3-life tradition of selling snails, respectively great-grandmother, grandmother, now his mother. “My grandmother sold snails from the 1940s. At that time, the shop had no signboards but was very famous and expensive, just mention the Chuong Duong wharf restaurant or the snail at the foot of the Mong bridge that people knew immediately. Her most famous dish is grilled carp, priced at 7,000 VND / plate ”. Ms. Thuy Van is the famous snail brand builder in Saigon. When his mother came to work on her own, the shop adopted the name of Van snail, now it has been 20 years. “My house has moved 3 times. Initially sold at the current place, Nguyen An Ninh street, then to the Ben Thanh night market, selling for 9-10 years. By 2009, the market no longer supplied water to business households, so they moved back to their old place and sold until now ”. Since the opening of the sale, Ms. Van has devoted a lot of energy to discovering and learning new dishes, creating a recipe for the taste of most diners. She is the only one who holds the recipe of the dishes and chooses the ingredients and spices herself. The menu is varied with about 30 types of snails, each can be processed into 3-5 different dishes. Van snail restaurant attracts a large number of diners because of its special delicious taste. “Fortunately, the restaurant is supported by many people, there are quite a few famous people who are patrons. I think that business in the food industry, the most important thing is the word ‘delicious’. Because of its deliciousness, people come and spread each other’s ears, so my family attaches great importance to the quality of food as well as the way of serving it, ”Hao said. Van Van’s employees are family members, both paternal and maternal side. During the day, each person has a different job, in the evening together as a sales assistant. “The time of the shop is quite flexible, open from 17:00, some day until 2-3 am, depending on the needs of customers. Every day without guests, I will rest early, but if people come in late to eat, my house will still comfortably serve. There are nights when customers come in crowded at the same time, unable to get close to each table, it is difficult to avoid mistakes, so I hope everyone understands, ”said the owner of the shop owner. The restaurant is sometimes open until midnight to serve guests. Delicious snails do not look at the price Being the first time to eat at Van snail, Tran Bao (28 years old, district 4) and his friends felt impressed with the delicious and strange taste of the dishes here. He told his friends that this is a famous snail shop, often with artists coming to eat so he was very curious. “The first time I came here, I was surprised because there were many dishes with strange cooking methods. For example, the red snail dish I ordered has added chili sauce, the spicy taste is quite attractive, I find a few restaurants that do that way. The price here is much higher than the places I used to eat, but compared to the quality, that level is appropriate. I will come back here many more times and recommend to my friends ”. Having a high price because it is located in the city center, Van Van still retains its customers thanks to delicious food. Only getting to know the Van snail 1 year ago through the recommendation of a friend, Tran Phu Thien (30 years old, an office worker) has become a customer of the restaurant. Working on Mac Dinh Chi Street (District 1), Thien and a group of colleagues often come here to eat and chat after work. “I am a culinary fanatic, especially love snail dishes. Here in Saigon, where there are famous snails, I have come to eat but I feel this place is the best, I have to eat 4-5 times a month. My favorite dish here is garlic snail sautéed with onion fat ”. Thien said that his friends told him that many famous people often visit Van snail, but he did not care too much, what he was most impressed with was the typical delicious taste of the restaurant. “Today we ordered 8 dishes, priced at 70,000-150,000 VND. Snails here are seasoned to suit many people, not too sweet like most other goods. I feel that the ingredients of the restaurant are also fresh, carefully selected. Compared to the places where used to eat, Van snail is more expensive, but because it is so delicious, I don’t care about the price “. “Moreover, I like the comfortable, quiet atmosphere here, eating and watching Saigon at night, it is very interesting,” Thien added.

Although there are 5 days to go to Han Thuc New Year (March 3 of lunar calendar), but these days, Chau Yen’s family in Ham Nghi, My Dinh, Hanoi has always accepted and made floating cakes, vegetarian cakes returned. menu for guests. Continuing the family’s traditional profession for more than 20 years, Chau Yen’s family is launching a variety of cakes to serve the needs of Hanoi housewives. If her family makes snacks on a regular basis such as egg cake, mushroom chicken cake, cheese cake, char siu cake, salted egg cake, dumplings … then on the full moon day, the first day of the Lunar New Year, the grandmother This skillful assistant turned to making floating cakes, vegetarian cakes, and peach nectar dumplings to sell to customers to buy home to worship at home. On the days of approaching Han Thuc New Year, Chau Yen’s family was busy preparing a large amount of cake dough to serve customers. Photo: NVCC To serve the great needs of customers, every year, about 4-5 days before the Han Thuc New Year, this woman advertises on her personal facebook and online market groups to receive orders. And every time she sells floating cake dough, vegetarian cake, her family receives the trust of many customers. “ My family has been making cakes for more than 20 years, so it has a very stable number of patrons. New customers also believe in a lot. Therefore, in addition to retail customers who are families, online customers, our home also has many kindergartens, many companies in Hanoi order biscuits or cooked cakes to enjoy “ , Chau Yen said. Because of the stable number of patrons, even though nowadays, many office sisters have switched to selling online, but Chau Yen’s house is still full of customers. Serving for about 4-5 days selling flour, vegetarian, her family sells about 6 quintals of flour these days. The set of floating cake dough, vegetarian cake is made entirely from natural ingredients. Photo: NVCC “ Usually 4-5 days before the Han Thuc Tet holiday, I start to sell biscuits as well as sell cooked cakes. This year, Han Eclipse New Year’s Day falls on a weekday, so raw dough is ordered by many companies, kindergartens, and families to make weekends. Therefore, in the days before the Han Eet Festival, I sold about 1 quintal of floating rice flour, vegetarian food / day. On the second day of the third day of the lunar calendar, every year I can sell 2-3 quintals of flour / day. On the 3rd of the 3rd lunar month, about 3 quintals of flour will be sold. In general, for a few days of serving Han Food Festival, our family has to sell at least 6 quintals of raw and cooked cake flour “, Ms. Chau Yen shared. According to the merchant selling floating cakes and vegetarian cakes in this long-standing Han Thuc Tet holiday, this year, the set of floating cakes and cooked vegetarian cakes will sell more customers than raw cake dough on the 3rd of the third lunar month: “ This year, due to the fact that the Korean Lunar New Year falls on a weekday, many families, companies and schools will order floating cakes and cooked vegetarian cakes to eat because there is no time to make them. So our house that day will mobilize about 10 people to work to serve this great demand of customers “ . This year, floating cakes, cooked vegetarian cakes are expected to have more customers to buy because the Han Thuc New Year falls on the 4th day of the week. Photo: NVCC According to Ms. Chau Yen, in the days before the Han Thuc New Year, her family of 6 adults always worked hand-in-hand to serve customers. However, from the 3rd of 3rd of the third lunar month, every year, her family has to hire 3-4 more bakers to pay the customer application: “In general, 10 people always have to do their best. new capacity to make and sell. Because these days, the number of customers ordering cakes is too crowded “. Currently, a set of white drifting cakes is being sold by Ms. Chau Yen for 35,000 VND / kg. White drifting powder set including sugar, sesame, coconut is sold for 50 thousand VND / kg. White vegetarian cake flour set includes white flour, sugar float, sesame, green bean fried with coconut, powdered sugar for cooking vegetarian cake, fresh coconut is sold for 65 thousand dong / kg. Particularly, the set of five-color floating cake flour is sold at a slightly higher price from 5-15 thousand VND / kg. In addition to the floating cake dough set, Chau Yen’s family also sells all kinds of vegetarian floating cakes for 50,000 VND / pair. Drift boat vegetarian cake is sold for 30 thousand VND / bowl. Banh float, vegetarian on Han Thuc New Year are ordered by many kindergartens. Photo: NVCC “ All prices for bakery powders or pastries are clearly and publicly quoted. Customers who order can freely refer to before ordering. In particular, all the ingredients for making floating cakes, our vegetarian cakes are made from 100% natural ingredients from yellow flower sticky rice, brown sugar, grated coconut, and sesame seeds. As for the five-color floating cakes, they are made with natural food colors from leaves and tubers, so they are both eye-catching and delicious “ This person insists.

People casually choose, buy and sell on the sidelines of Highway 15B.

This spontaneous sale area usually takes place in the afternoon, especially after the end.

Highway 15B passing through this area has a large traffic density, so the fair not only endangers traffic participants, but also endangers the buyers and sellers here.

Corridors and margins of national highway 15B were encroached upon.

A small trader said: “It has been sold here for a long time, so some customers know it, now it is difficult to go to other places to sell. People buy and buy, stop by and buy a little bit is done ”.

Ms. Hoang Nhu Nguyet – a resident living near the market area said: “When there is a competent force to remind and handle, small businesses move deep inside, but, when the competent forces leave, the people Again encroaching on sidewalks, roadbeds for sale. This situation has been repeated for many years, causing loss of aesthetics and a high potential risk of loss of traffic safety ”.

The stopped cars were parked on both sides, encroaching in the middle of the roadway.

Through understanding, local authorities and functional forces have repeatedly organized to restore order in this area, but up to now, the situation of gathering and encroaching on Highway 15B has not been resolved. finish.