Diep and his wife have 3 children. Her children are all grown up: the oldest one is in 12th grade, the second one is in 10th grade and the younger one is in 7th grade. In addition, her family has a 30-year-old brother from the countryside who moved to Hanoi to work with her. In total, her family has a total of 6 members. In the past, Ms. Diep used to go to the market every day, or at least once every two days. However, she finds going to the market by day is time consuming and has no control over the market money. Therefore, her family’s monthly expenditure on food is always above 10 million VND/month. Going to the wholesale market, Ms. Diep saves 2-3 million per month (illustration image) “Every day, our family eats 3 meals, it costs about 250,000-300,000 VND. Weekends are slightly better, have to be 400,000 VND / day because I buy more chickens and ducks, fresh food improves. Therefore, my family’s monthly market money is about ten million dong. Also, every day I have to carry the lane to the market, calculate the daily dishes. Many days have busy work, not in time in the morning, then come home late in the afternoon and still rush to go to the market,” Ms. Diep said. Seeing that it is inconvenient to go to the market by day and to reduce the cost of food during the epidemic season, Ms. Diep decided to go to the wholesale market on a weekly basis. “I see that my colleague’s house goes to the market on a weekly basis, which is both cheap, can buy a variety of foods, and saves a lot of time. She suggested going to the wholesale market every weekend to buy all kinds of shrimp, crab, fish, vegetables, etc., for preliminary processing, breaking them into small meals for the refrigerator to eat gradually, which is very convenient.” Listening to your advice, Ms. Diep has gone to the wholesale market once a week for several months. Each time, she brings 1 million dong or a little more. She often goes to the 365 wholesale market and the Duong Noi wholesale market, every Saturday. “In Ha Dong, there are many markets for people’s living and toad markets. However, to buy cheap food, I often go to market 365 to buy meat, fish, vegetables and fruits. Especially vegetables in this market are very cheap. When I go to Duong Noi wholesale market, I buy poultry and seafood. So, I only need 1 million to buy enough fresh food to eat for a whole week,” said Ms. Diep. Specifically, when going to the two wholesale markets above, Ms. Diep often buys the following foods: 1kg of beef: 160,000 VND 1kg of shrimp: 135,000 VND 2 kg of lean shoulder meat: The price of pork has cooled down a lot, so it’s only 110,000 VND/kg, buying 2kg is only 220,000 VND. 1 kg she asked the seller to grind, 1 kg she divided into 3 pieces for storage or roasting. 2 dozen eggs: 40,000 VND 1 chicken about 2kg: 180,000 VND 1.5kg of industrial chicken wings: 120,000 VND 3kg of drifting fish: 90,000 VND (type 1 kg/fish) In addition, vegetables: 1kg of potatoes: 20,000 VND; 1kg beans, 1kg chayote: 30,000 VND; water spinach, amaranth, spinach: 30,000 VND Fruits: 1kg of plums: 30,000 VND; 2kg watermelon: 30,000 VND; 2kg mango: 30,000 VND. Total: Over 1 million VND/week fixed. Of course, you still have to add a little fresh food every day, but not too big. Thus, with an amount of more than 1 million VND, Ms. Diep was able to buy quite a lot of food with enough meat, shrimp, fish and vegetables. After that, she washed, processed into small meals and stored in the refrigerator. “1kg of pork, I divided into 3 meals. 1.5kg chicken wings also divided into 3 meals. My fish is divided into 4 meals. When you like to eat cooked fish, cook it with sour or pickle. When I like to eat stock, I will go to the neighboring warehouse. My beef is also divided into small pieces to stir-fry onions and garlic or to dip noodles for breakfast. As for our chicken, we usually boil it, the meat is removed to cook chicken noodle soup in the morning to eat at home. Every day, I just need to buy more food or other condiments such as onions, tofu, and fruit if needed,” said Ms. Diep. Calculating, three meals a day at home, but this young family of 5 costs about 150,000 VND/day. For the whole month, adding fresh food and other complementary foods, Ms. Diep’s family spent about 6 million VND to go to the market, saving 3 million compared to before. According to Ms. Diep, in addition to going to the wholesale market at the end of each week, in order to save maximum spending, each sister herself needs to know how to create menus when cooking, helping to make family dishes more diverse. “It is important that the 7-day menu is not duplicated, changes dishes continuously. Because food is just around the corner, if you don’t know how to process it, the dishes on the rice tray will be very monotonous,” she said.

The 4-bedroom villa in Ho Chi Minh City designed by female architect Bich Huyen since 2017 has many unique features, especially the 40m2 wide skylight courtyard located in the middle of the project. The owner is an elderly woman who loves nature very much, likes open space, modern. Ms. Huyen shared, the house was built on a piece of land with an area of ​​7.5-8x22m, the house was built with 2m behind, 2m in front. Instead of making a front or back yard, the architect placed the courtyard on the central axis of the site. The house was built on a split floor around the yard. The garden area has an automatic sliding roof system, the owner can adjust the opening – closing to get the wind. When it rains, the sliding roof closes, ensuring the yard remains dry. Ground floor is garage, warehouse, auxiliary works, living room, swimming pool, garden. The house faces the North, with little sunlight, so Huyen arranges glass in the front. Behind the house is the extended south direction, taking maximum cool wind for the house. To ensure the sustainability of the building, the architect uses pressed pile foundations. Pile foundation is a form of foundation construction based on reinforced concrete square piles, using specialized machines to press piles deep into the ground. This type of foundation is very strong, can be used on soft ground and has good durability, suitable for high-rise townhouses. Homeowners often receive guests, meet relatives at the green skylight. The kitchen is located “climbing” above the swimming pool. The kitchen is located above, forming a roof for the swimming pool below. How to design such a swimming pool, helps to save maximum space and area. The hanging garden is located on the hallway. Relaxing corner in the garden. “Although it has been built for 4 years, the villa is still quite new now, because the owner has kept it very carefully,” Huyen said.

“Let’s have coffee today!” is a familiar saying of Saigon youth. Now, going to a coffee shop is not only to enjoy a drink, young people need a space to experience, study and work. King Coffee Tran Hung Dao shop is one of the addresses you should not miss. Prime location of King Coffee Tran Hung Dao store As a new face in the F&B market, until now, King Coffee is growing at a rapid speed and achieving certain successes, based on the steady development orientation of the leadership team. Among the number of stores across the country, King Coffee Tran Hung Dao is the store with the most prime location in the system. King Coffee Tran Hung Dao is located at 457A Tran Hung Dao Street, Cau Kho Ward, District 1, is the main road connecting the inner districts. With the advantage of a prime location, customers can easily find and visit, King Coffee Tran Hung Dao shop is always in the state of “full table”. Diverse space for all needs The space at King Coffee Tran Hung Dao is designed diversely, suitable for all the needs of customers. If the single tables for you to go to coffee alone to study and work need quiet, the long table is always ready to welcome the meeting you meet and exchange. Diversified space for all needs of meeting, learning and working An indispensable feature of the King Coffee shop system is the transparent glass windows. A row of chairs next to the window is a favorite choice of many young people. Sitting by the window, watching the sunset fall or watching the Saigon rain in a hurry, sipping a cup of fragrant coffee is really a very romantic hobby. Strong coffee, creative drink Famous for its strong and innovative coffee flavor, evidenced by its presence in more than 120 countries worldwide, a network of more than 40 stores across the country, King Coffee has increasingly asserted its position ” King of Vietnamese coffee “in the domestic and foreign market. Creative and diverse drink menu When you come to King Coffee, you will be sipping to enjoy the full flavor of coffee in a variety of recipes. You choose the rich taste of Vietnamese traditional or creative in the styles of the world, King Coffee is ready to serve. The menu of King Coffee is not limited to coffee, creativity is also applied to create fresh fruit drink flavors, creative concoctions. Purpose perfectly serves all needs of customers. King Coffee Tran Hung Dao is the ideal place that you definitely must visit to enjoy a drink, and experience the space!

“Coming back in April, the wind sings in summer. There are such blue horizons. The clouds are far away and the sun is far away ”… It is the hum in the soul of music lovers from Duong Thu’s song. April is the time when you feel spring waving for the last time on the sunny horizon, farewell the green color of leaves, clouds, wind … already dark green, hard, and the flower buds bear fruit to wait for the day to ripen … Spring is gone. The glorious summer was at a glance with all but full of sunshine and wind, with the resounding holy showers and thundering thunder. Yellow gerbera. April brings us many hopes and dreams of a burning summer. It is no coincidence that the students all looked up at the arch of the phoenix, watching the bunches of phoenixes that were about to burn a fiery red fire like a youthful soul. Summer is really the season of youth, the season of aspirations, but the moment of changing season still has things to do with … and that shows in this green April. In recent years, when April comes, when the phoenix has not yet bloomed, the yellow flowers have glittered everywhere like a sunny season has come. In Hanoi, people take lilies as the April messenger of nature. The pure, pure white lilies made the season of April more emotional. Heaven and earth is like that, but nature is not equal to the human soul. It is people with anxious love, full of emotions that make up a green April of life. Green April will lead us to a summer of love to come. Green April has returned, with the sea lover, always go to the sea to watch the new waves every day fading, white and creepy of the cold season, now turning deep blue to the end of the horizon of white clouds. In April, there was no feeling and concept of spring and summer, thanks to poetic music that has created such a lovely moment. Human souls and eyes have made a poetic green April flutter. Duong Trang Huong