Vietnamese Bread Festival in Ho Chi Minh City is packed with diners

On the first day of opening, the Vietnamese bread festival attracted a large crowd of Ho Chi Minh City residents and tourists to enjoy and wait to buy all kinds of bread from famous stores.

The third Vietnam Bread Festival in 2025 has just opened at Le Van Tam Park (District 1, Ho Chi Minh City). The festival takes place from March 21 to 24, 2025, with free admission. On the first day, crowds of locals and tourists came to enjoy all kinds of bread.

The festival is expected to attract more than 150,000 domestic and foreign visitors with about 150 booths.

Crowded with people and tourists at the Vietnamese bread festival

According to records, this evening, tourists flocked to the Vietnamese bread festival, the two parking lots on Dien Bien Phu and Hai Ba Trung streets were jammed, with no more parking space. The surrounding streets were also packed with people. Inside Le Van Tam park, famous bread stalls such as Huynh Hoa bread, Cu Ly bread, Nguyen Sinh bread, Bay Ho bread... customers had to line up to wait their turn.

Booths introducing fruit tea products, baking ingredients... also attracted many people and tourists to come and participate in exciting games.

Huynh Hoa bread, 73,000 VND/loaf, is sold near the main stage. From around 4 pm, both locals and Westerners lined up to buy.

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The sandwich filled with fatty pâté, ham, and fragrant cold cuts is a specialty of Huynh Hoa that makes diners fascinated. For some people, the Huynh Hoa sandwich is quite big so they can only eat half of it.

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Tourists happily check-in after lining up to buy a Huynh Hoa sandwich.

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Banh mi Cu Ly with simple ingredients of 5 types of ham but with its own unique flavor is also a stall that makes many customers fascinated. By 5 pm, the stall was out of ham, estimated to have sold about 1,000 loaves of bread.

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Mr. Nguyen Hoang Quoc Thien, owner of Cu Ly bakery, said that his family has been selling bread for more than 50 years and he is the third generation. "This year's festival is much more bustling than last year's, with a lot of customers. To ensure quality, we only sell ham on the same day. We cut the ham with our hands so each piece is neat as if cut by machine. Through the festival, we help promote the brand to people and tourists at home and abroad," he shared.

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Seven Tigers bread is sold for 25,000 VND/loaf. The famous features of Seven Tigers are the pate and the crispy bread crust when it reaches the customers.

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With a price range of 25,000 VND/loaf, Bay Ho bread is considered enough for one person to eat. Inside the bread there is meat, sausage, pate, cucumber, onion, cilantro, chili, pickles... all sandwiched in a hot, crispy loaf of bread.

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Banh mi Tang is famous for its delicious grilled pate and meatball soup, which also attracts many tourists to come and buy.

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Banh mi Nguyen Sinh Bistro opened its first shop in Hanoi in 1942 and was famous for its cold cuts. In 1979, the owner moved to Ho Chi Minh City and opened the first shop there 3 years later. Currently, the shop is continued by his descendants.

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Visitors enjoy hot, crispy bread at the festival.

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Visitors to the bread festival will experience making bread, enjoying bread and coffee, and discovering the combination of these two typical Vietnamese dishes.

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Bread at the festival has many different prices, the cheapest is 20,000 VND, the most expensive is over 100,000 VND

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Diners do not mind queuing up to buy a loaf of bread from their favorite shop.

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The highlight of this year's festival is the bread buffet with bread from many countries and Vietnamese dishes from the evening of March 22 to March 24. In addition, the festival has an area displaying documents about past and present bread, introducing the history of the formation and development of Vietnamese bread through the ages. The festival also set a record of 200 bread dishes made from seafood ingredients, displayed on a boat.