Coming to Singapore to attend Vietnam Pho Festival 2025, visitors can interact with a series of events

Vietnam Pho Festival 2025 will take place in Singapore on October 18 and 19. During this time, visitors to the island nation will enjoy delicious pho and have the opportunity to experience a series of interesting tourism events.

The museum taps its own collection to highlight biodiversity challenges in Singapore - Photo: STB

Vietnam Pho Festival 2025 will be coming to Singapore this year. The festival for pho lovers will take place on October 18 and 19 at Our Tampines Hub.

Visitors to the pho festival, in addition to enjoying bowls of original pho, made by chefs from 5-star hotels or famous pho restaurants from Vietnam, can also explore many interesting activities of the island nation.

The first impression is the dinosaur exhibition. Dinosaur lovers will enjoy a special experience with the largest dinosaur exhibition ever at Science Centre Singapore.

According to the Singapore Tourism Board (STB), as of August 31, the total number of international arrivals to Singapore (IVA) reached 10.01 million, with about 249,860 arrivals from Vietnam.

Taking place in October 2025, the exhibition "Dinosaurs | Extinctions | Us" takes visitors back in time and see firsthand the largest dinosaurs that ever lived on Earth.

The exhibition will display 33 rare fossils and 60 life-size dinosaur models on an area of ^{​​3,000m2} . This is also the largest dinosaur exhibition ever held at Science Centre Singapore.

The exhibition is organized in collaboration between Science Centre Singapore and Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum of the National University of Singapore.

The exhibition consists of two main sections spread over three interactive areas. Visitors will travel through 400 million years of Earth's history, learning about the formation and extinction of prehistoric creatures and five major extinction events in the planet's history.

The Singapore Art Book Fair attracts book lovers from around the world - Photo: STB

Also this October, visitors can get into the Halloween spirit with the Halloween Horror Nights 13 event at Universal Studios Singapore, the Unseen, Unheard nighttime heritage tour at the National Gallery, and the Below Deck haunted dinner cruise on The Royal Albatross.

This Halloween, the National Gallery Singapore will open its doors for the first time during the night for a special Back-of-House Tour of the former Supreme Court, which was built in the 1930s and has been the site of many landmark trials over the past six decades.

This historic building will take visitors on a journey through hidden rooms, hallways and forgotten passageways in the Halloween Unseen, Unheard experience.

Visitors will follow in the footsteps of prisoners and judges, climb through the infamous trapdoor into the prisoner area and enter the Viewing Gallery, where the public once watched trials. The tour also offers a rare opportunity to use a private elevator and sit in the judge's chair in the courtroom, areas that are not open to the public...

Another event is Horror Nights 13, which transforms Universal Studios Singapore into a spooky space where the clock strikes the “13th hour”, the moment that opens up spooky experiences.

Running until November 1, this year’s festival season brings a series of haunted houses with new themes, including a special experience inspired by the hit Netflix series Stranger Things , along with scare zones and live performances that will both scare and excite attendees.

One destination not to be missed is Changi Airport. During this occasion, the famous airport also introduced a series of new destinations, including the first One Piece Mugiwara store in Southeast Asia and the Star Wars Pop-up Library, bringing more pop culture experiences and entertainment for the whole family to the airport.

To celebrate the 30th anniversary of the National Library Board (NLB), Changi Airport has partnered with Disney to launch a limited-time Star Wars pop-up library, which will run until 24 January 2026. This is the first Star Wars pop-up library in Singapore, located at the Terminal 3 departure hall.

Inspired by the Jedi Archives on Coruscant, the library invites fans of all ages to explore more than 2,000 Star Wars stories curated by NLB librarians. Visitors will follow heroes and villains as they discover dramatic adventures on every page.

Finally, the Singapore Biennale 2025 returns with the theme of “Pure Intention”. The event showcases over 100 works by over 80 artists in museums and public spaces. In parallel, the Singapore Art Book Fair celebrates the vitality of independent publishing and contemporary print culture.

Vietnam Pho Festival 2025 in Singapore connects cultures, promotes cooperation

Vietnam Pho Festival 2025 in Singapore, organized by the Vietnamese Embassy in Singapore, Tuoi Tre Newspaper and Saigon Tourist Group in collaboration with the Department of Industry and Trade of Ho Chi Minh City, the Vietnamese Liaison Committee in Singapore under the direction of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the People's Committee of Ho Chi Minh City, will take place on October 18 and 19 at Our Tampines Hub, Singapore.

The festival was held in the context of Vietnam and Singapore upgrading their relationship to a comprehensive strategic partnership, affirming the program's significance and stature.

With the message "Pho - Enjoying together, growing together", Vietnam Pho Festival 2025 hopes that the event will not only invite international friends to enjoy a typical Vietnamese dish, which was listed by CNN in the list of 50 must-try dishes worldwide in 2011, but also convey the desire to connect - share - accompany the development of Vietnam.

Through the festival, pho will be introduced as a "cultural ambassador", serving as a bridge for Vietnam and Singapore, as well as international friends, to work together towards a prosperous and sustainable future.

The most important activity of the festival is to bring Singaporeans and tourists the opportunity to enjoy the "authentic" taste of Vietnamese pho. At Our Tampines Hub, attendees will be able to enjoy pho prepared directly by top artisans and chefs from Vietnam.

The main chefs of the 5-star hotels in the Saigontourist Group system, including four luxury hotels Rex Saigon, Majestic Saigon, Grand Saigon, Caravelle Saigon and the brand Pho Thu Duc Golf Restaurant (Vietnam Golf & Country Club), along with famous pho brands such as Pho Thin Bo Ho, Pho Ta, Pho Phu Gia, Pho Vuong, Ba Ban Pho... will bring diversity in cooking methods and ways of enjoying.

In addition to pho, attendees also have the opportunity to enjoy many other traditional Vietnamese dishes, prepared by Saigontourist's 5-star chefs, creating a vibrant "culinary symphony".

In particular, along with the Pho Festival, a large-scale investment forum was also held, namely the Vietnam - Singapore Investment, Trade and Tourism Promotion Forum 2025, affirming the substance of the event. The forum took place right after the opening ceremony (morning of October 18).

At the forum, management agencies and businesses will discuss new cooperation trends in green processing and logistics, tourism and aviation services, import and export of Vietnamese agricultural products and specialties, digital transformation and e-commerce.

In particular, the Business Matching program (1-1 business connection) will create conditions for Vietnamese and Singaporean businesses to meet directly and seek practical cooperation opportunities.

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