NOLA-based acupuncturist and perennial volunteer Quang Huynh takes his blind method acupuncture to the Philippines to help Haiyan victims, one needle at a time. Learn how you can help donate needles or time.

Kenny Nguyen and Vincent Tong are officers of the Vietnamese American Student Association at UNO and enjoy the perks of going from small town Louisiana to urban UNO with a core group of Vietnamese Americans. From traditional dances to charity work, these students share their interpretation of Viet culture campus-wide.

In Part 2 of Kim’s conversation with Mai Do and Tom Lasher – the bi-racial couple who fell in love after meeting at a coffeehouse on Magazine Street – Tom and Mai start a family. Living between New Orleans and Hanoi, raising bi-racial, bi-national children who also need to be bilingual has its challenges. But…

Husband and wife Tom Lasher and Dr. Mai Do met in a coffeehouse on Magazine Street when he was a consultant working on post-disaster Katrina and she took a job as a professor at Tulane instead of returning home to Vietnam. The rest is bi-racial, bi-national history.

When nobody he knows is looking, aspiring optometrist Travis Tran is a secret spoken word artist. Normally performing only at closed NOLA Viet events, Travis outs himself with a rare public performance on this edition of VietNola.