What is worth buying in Vietnam and what is worth buying in Indonesia?

Woodcarving artware

Most tourists who have been to Vietnam often buy wood carving crafts in Vietnam, which can be bought in handicraft shops in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City. Vietnam's wood carving crafts have a long reputation, and most of them use high-quality hardwood produced in the virgin forests of central Vietnam or neighboring Laos and Cambodia as raw materials. Generally speaking, the knife work of wood carving crafts in Hanoi is slightly lower than that in Ho Chi Minh City, and the price is relatively cheaper. When choosing wood carvings carved from sandalwood, barrel wood or other fragrant wood, it is best not to paint them, so that the fragrance can be emitted and will become smoother after long-term touch.

Wooden vases and wooden jewelry boxes

You can also buy wooden vases and wooden jewelry boxes in handicraft shops. This kind of vases and jewelry boxes are generally made of superior hardwood, and the wood surface is inlaid with various patterns such as landscapes, flowers, birds and figures. , and then painted with raw paint, polished to shine.

In addition, chopsticks made of Vietnamese hardwood are also worth buying. Its wood is made of black wood, which is non-toxic and odorless, durable, and will not be deformed when put into a disinfection cabinet for high temperature disinfection.

Lacquer painting (polishing)

Lacquer painting is a unique work of art in Vietnam, with a strong Vietnamese national style. The lacquer mill painting takes Vietnamese hardwood as the drawing board and the unique lacquer mill in Vietnam as the pigment. This kind of ground paint is mostly natural paint such as raw paint.

Lacquer painting is wear-resistant and shiny, with simple style, which mostly reflects themes such as mountains and rivers and figures. In addition to grinding lacquer paintings, Vietnamese silk paintings are also very distinctive, but the production is not exquisite enough and the grade is slightly lower.