If I read the posts correctly, someone suggested Vietnam during Chinese New Year. They celebrate TET the same time. From my correspondence with a Hanoi agency, Hanoi is dead quiet beginning New Years Eve onward. Try to find a restaurant - nope, they shut down the day prior to New Years Eve and are closed for 8 to 10 days. Same with foot massage places. Same with attractions. Folks don't want to do any work during the first few days of Tet. They believe how they begin the new year is how they will spend the year, and they want it filled with more agreeable activities.