After four years of preparation, Ha Huyen founded the largest channel featuring Vietnamese food on YouTube, called Helen's Recipes (Vietnamese Food). It has had over 20 million hits, mostly from foreigners, on YouTube.  Ha Huyen (left) and Ha Uyen learn how to make banh can (can cake) in Da Lat. After years of study in Singapore, Germany, Japan, and Australia, the two sisters born in the central city of Da Nang, Le Ha Huyen (Helen Le, 30) and Le Ha Uyen (Summer, 26), decided to spend time promoting the special dishes of Da Nang and other areas of Vietnam to international friends. Ha Uyen is also the owner of the website danangcuisine.com with about 20,000 hits per day. While studying business administration at the At that time, there was almost no website in English about Vietnamese dishes. Ha Uyen emailed her sister - Ha Huyen – who was studying MSc at the During her five years studying overseas, Ha Huyen was also asked similar questions by her friends. Therefore the two sisters decided to design a website promoting Ha Uyen, who has good English language skills, opened a blog, which became a website in 2011, writing comments about In 2011, Ha Huyen joined her sister by opening a YouTube channel, where she posts video clips guiding foreign viewers how to cook these dishes. "Find the lost part of my life" “We mainly process simple dishes so foreigners can cook them. But sometimes we make sophisticated dishes to make the show more interesting," Uyen said. From early 2014, the sisters began earning advertising revenue from their channel and website. Previously they maintained these addresses with their own money. Huyen and Uyen recalled the stories, which are the driving force for them to maintain their YouTube channel and website. Adele Hoang Diep, a 16-year-old Vietnamese-born girl in the A Korean girl whose husband is a Vietnamese wrote to Huyen and Uyen: "The relationship between me and my mother-in-law was not good, perhaps due to cultural differences. But since I was guided by you to cook Vietnamese cuisine, the relationship between us has got better. We watched your video clips and cooked together. I feel the cultural differences can be resolved by dishes." The sincere emails moved the sisters and became a driving force behind their desire to maintain their Youtube channel and website. Uyen has returned to After work, Uyen takes foreign visitors to sidewalk restaurants in Recently, an Australian visitor showed Uyen newspaper articles that had included the addresses of restaurants in Uyen took the Australian man to a sidewalk restaurant that served steamed glutinous rice and chicken and told him the story behind the cuisine: the Vietnamese always honor the ancestors and they offer steamed glutinous rice and chicken to their ancestors. Uyen also told foreign visitors about the stories behind other dishes like banh beo, banh chen, banh nam and others. Uyen said she had to read a lot of books and meet with older people to listen to their stories about Vietnamese food. Ha Huyen works in Huyen said: "I want to attract international friends to T. Van, |
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