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Want to attend Vesak at Garden Grove Park? The city has not finalized the 2027 request
Two Buddhist organizations have asked to hold a festival at Garden Grove Park on April 24–25, 2027. Their letter proposes a free event with about 3,000 visits, but the council’s decision has not been confirmed.
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Same moon, different holiday: why Tết Trung Thu belongs to the kids — a guide for the generation that grew up calling it "Moon Festival"
On Friday, September 25, 2026, the eighth-month moon is full, and your Chinese and Korean friends will be celebrating too — but not the same way. In Vietnam the Mid-Autumn Festival turned into a children's holiday, with its own man in the moon, its own lanterns and a song your grandparents can still sing. Here is what they wish you knew before you take your own kids to a lantern night in Little Saigon.
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From a Software Nobody Wanted to a $90 Million Table: The Việt Nguyễn Story
Việt Nguyễn came to America from Vietnam at 16 with no English and no money; today his Huntington Beach company, Kei Concepts, runs thirteen restaurants across Orange County and expects nearly $90 million in sales in 2026, according to the Orange County Business Journal. His newest restaurant is also his most personal — a tribute to the Saigon neighborhood where he grew up, built a few miles from Bolsa Avenue, in the community whose story his own most resembles.