Qualla: Sóc Trăng https://qualla.com/soc-trang en-us © 2026 Bendyline Thu, 20 Aug 2026 16:39:17 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Sóc Trăng https://qualla.com/soc-trang Sóc Trăng: Introduction https://qualla.com/soc-trang/ At dusk the garden of Chùa Dơi comes apart. Thousands of flying foxes that have spent the day hanging in the fruit trees inside the monastery walls unhook themselves, circle once over the roofs, and stream out across Sóc Trăng to feed. They will be back by morning. They have been doing this long enough that almost nobody uses the pagoda's actual name - Wath Sêrâytêchô Mahatup, which Chinese and Vietnamese speakers wore down into Mã Tộc - and everyone simply calls it Chùa Dơi, the Bat Pagoda. This is a good introduction to the city, which has about fifty pagodas inside its limits and a habit of being known for the odd detail rather than the grand one.

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]]> Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/3/e/q/soc-trang-wk/w3eq-s-c-tr-ng-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Sóc Trăng: Built in 1569, Burned in 2007 https://qualla.com/soc-trang/ Work on Chùa Dơi began in 1569, which makes it older than almost anything else standing in the delta. It is a Khmer Theravada monastery and looks it: a main hall roughly twenty-one metres long and eleven wide, roofs curving up at the eaves into naga serpents, a stone Buddha insid...

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]]> Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/3/e/q/soc-trang-wk/w3eq-s-c-tr-ng-built-in-1569-burned-in-2007.mp3 0:06 2 full Sóc Trăng: Forty-Two Years of Clay https://qualla.com/soc-trang/ Ngô Kim Tòng left school after the third grade and taught himself to sculpt. Beginning in 1928 and continuing until his death in 1970, the fourth-generation keeper of a small temple called Bửu Sơn Tự filled it with thousands of figures modelled in clay - Buddhist, Taoist and Conf...

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]]> Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/3/e/q/soc-trang-wk/w3eq-s-c-tr-ng-forty-two-years-of-clay.mp3 0:06 3 full Sóc Trăng: The Canal and the Long Boats https://qualla.com/soc-trang/ The Maspéro, which runs through the middle of the city, is not a river. French engineers dredged it in 1908 to link Sóc Trăng with Phụng Hiệp thirty-three kilometres away, and locals also know it as the Cầu Quay canal. Once a year it becomes the most-watched stretch of water in t...

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]]> Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/3/e/q/soc-trang-wk/w3eq-s-c-tr-ng-the-canal-and-the-long-boats.mp3 0:06 4 full Sóc Trăng: Pia, Hotpot and Paddy Rat https://qualla.com/soc-trang/ Sóc Trăng's most exported object is a pastry. Bánh pía is a flaky Teochew confection descended from a Suzhou-style mooncake - the name comes straight from the Teochew word for pastry, 餅, pia - brought by Chinese settlers and now made in quantity here and in nearby Vũng Thơm. The ...

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]]> Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/3/e/q/soc-trang-wk/w3eq-s-c-tr-ng-pia-hotpot-and-paddy-rat.mp3 0:06 5 full Sóc Trăng: An Hour Wide https://qualla.com/soc-trang/ You can walk across the whole city in under an hour, which is the fastest way to understand it. Sóc Trăng had 221,430 residents in 2018 across 76.15 km², a Kinh majority alongside a substantial Khmer Krom minority and an established ethnic Chinese community - a mix you can read d...

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