A Vietnamese home altar, similar to a Thai sahn phra phum or sahn chao tih-style spirit house (fig.), but with statuettes of Than Tai (fig.), the Vietnamese god of wealth, and Tho Cong, the Vietnamese equivalent of Tu Di Gong, the Chinese Lord of the Soil and the Ground, who watches over ones land and property (fig.).

According to local beliefs, these house shrines should always be erected in such a manner that they face the entrance door, and its deities are offered fruit, e.g. this sour sack (fig.), food and drinks, the latter usually in the form of tea, traditionally offered in either 5 or alternatively 3 small cups.