Lai Thieu is a region of Binh Duong Province, where appeared as South-East Asia’s central ceramics market around the beginning of the 20th century and where a lifetime of skills was passed down from one generation to the other. Here are the jars my mother used to stock salt, spices, pork lard (that was used for cooking instead of oil) on the kitchen shelves or cooked rice, hot soup on the dining table. It’s 7 o’clock in the evening, when the news program on television starts, we have dinner together at home.