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Kōrero: Vietnamese

Cooking gakho

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Cooking gakho

Photographed in Naenae, Wellington, Vietnamese refugees Tai (left) and Tam Nguyen, Phi Hoang Pham and Nhan Ngoc Tran prepare gakho, which is made from chicken, soy sauce, garlic, peppercorns and onions. It was probably the first time this dish was ever cooked in the suburb of Naenae.

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

Alexander Turnbull Library, Dominion Post Collection (PA-Group-00685)

Reference: EP/1980/0748/10

by Ian Mackley

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Trung Tran, Vietnamese – Culture, language and work, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/997/cooking-gakho (accessed 25 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Trung Tran, i tāngia i te 4 March 2009, updated 1 August 2024.