With the Tet or Lunar New Year shopping season approaching, the prices of many items have risen in traditional markets in major cities. At Ho Chi Minh City’s Ben Thanh Market, the prices of processed and dried foods like gio cha (pork pastes), gio thu (pig’s head paste), dried shrimp and cuttlefish, lotus seed, cashew nut, and chestnut have all sky-rocketed. Dried shrimp, for instance, increased...