r/Vietnamese

I’m 32 and tracked my fiber for a week mostly out of curiosity.

I was getting like 12g a day.

The recommendation is 25–35g, which honestly explained a lot. I always had mid-afternoon crashes, bloating, and just random stomach stuff I never really thought about.

The tracking apps I tried didn’t really help either. MyFitnessPal tracks fiber, but it’s buried behind calories and macros. Cronometer felt way too detailed for what I wanted.

I basically just wanted an app that told me one thing:

Did I hit my fiber today or not?

So I built one.

It has a daily ring for your fiber goal, barcode scanner, 200+ USDA foods, and a plant diversity score. That last part was kind of surprising to me. A lot of gut health research points to variety per week, not just total grams.

A few honest surprises after using it for ~6 months:

• Getting to 30g isn’t that hard once you realize where fiber actually comes from. Beans, oats, raspberries, chia, avocado, etc.
• Plant diversity was harder for me than the actual fiber goal.
• A lot of packaged “high fiber” foods are not as useful as they make themselves sound.

Free, iOS only, on device, no account.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id6760719879

Would genuinely love feedback on the food database or anything that feels off.

Apologies for the shaky handwriting, we were on a bus and she is 83!

My grandmother wrote down this idiom her mother used to tell her - the basic gist I got was to watch where you’re going/look down before you sit but reading it again (my Vietnamese is poor but I am better at reading/writing than speaking - working on it), it seems much more involved (which makes sense as an old expression).

It was translated to “Eat with an eye on the pot, sit with an eye on the incense; conduct yourself with propriety, mindful of your surroundings and the people around you. Living under my roof, I wonder—will you ever learn any sense?” From “ăn coi nấu ngồi coi hương đi cho, biết đó biết đó biết đây. ở nhá vởi me biết ngày nào khôn.” (which is very on brand for my bà nội)

but would love some insight from a real person/someone who may have even heard a version of this expression before?

TIA ❤️

Hello, I just released my small game ZedDrop on the App Store.

It’s a fast-paced timing game:

•	Swing → cut → drop → land  
•	Perfect timing builds combos  
•	One mistake = game over

Simple to learn, but gets stressful really fast.
Price: Free
IAP: Revive (continue after game over)

Would really appreciate any feedback — especially on gameplay feel and difficulty 🙏

App Store:
https://apps.apple.com/app/id6764475676

Hey everyone! I'm a Vietnamese dev and built this little game around real wet market scenarios — Ben Thanh, Dong Xuan, Floating Market, etc.

You practice mental math while picking up actual market vocabulary: rau muống, cá lóc, bánh mì, regional dish names, North vs South differences.

It's free, bilingual (EN/VI), works offline.

Would love feedback from learners — especially whether the Vietnamese terms feel natural or confusing!

iOS:

🔗 Market Math on App Store

Android:

🔗 Market Math on Google Play Store

Xin chao or hello, sorry if this is the wrong place to post this. I am a singer (this is actually my anonymous account to hide my true identity), and I am working on an album that focuses on 80s 90s genres specifically city pop and R&B.

One of the songs that I am working on will have a verse or two in Vietnamese. I want this because not only I think it will sound cool but also I want to surprise my family. I unfortunately and one of those who have what I like to call the “curse” in which I am not as good in speaking my family’s tongue (I am born and raised in America but Viet descent).

So I am looking for someone (no experience needed) who is able to write me a verse to in Vietnamese as well as maybe a romanized version to help me translate well. Here is a clip of a rough draft (and I mean rough because it’s just a test 😬) of what the 1st and 2nd verse sound like (obviously they are in English) or to help give an idea of how the beat and flow are for this song. If you guys are interested, please let me know in the comments. Thank you.

We’re delighted to say Joseph has been found and is in safe hands. I’d like to thank every single person who has contact me, shared this, or just wished us luck. You’ve really kept us going. there have been so many kind people out there who have helped us and we are so thankful for that.

Hi everyone,

I’m a Canadian university student conducting a research project on how Vietnamese people perceive and define success. The study has been ethically reviewed and is for academic purposes only.

I’m looking for Vietnamese participants to complete a short anonymous survey that takes about 5–7 minutes. Your participation would really help my research.

Survey link: https://forms.gle/khw9NMXYE1TGxmSU9

Feel free to share it with others if possible. Thank you!

grew up vietnamese in germany, parents always made fun of me whenever i typed without dấu lol. con đói vs con đôi kinda thing.

so i made PengoType, a small browser tool to practice telex. first lesson is free, no signup needed.

https://pengotype.com/try

it's not a vocab app. just typing practice for people who can speak/understand some vietnamese but skip the accents because gõ telex feels annoying.

still very early so honest feedback would help a lot:

• is the first lesson clear?
• where did you get stuck?
• would you actually use this on iPhone?

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