Thai Nguyen will organize the 2024 Food Festival 'Experience the Land of Tea, Rich in Identity' in mid-December

(CLO) Recently, the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism of Thai Nguyen province issued a Plan to organize the Culinary Festival "Experience the land of Tea, rich in identity" in 2024 with the theme "Experience the land of Tea, rich in identity".

According to the Plan, the Festival is expected to be held on December 16, 2024 in Thai Nguyen city with the participation of nearly 40 teams from districts, cities, restaurants, and tourist destinations inside and outside the province.

Through the Festival, we aim to exploit and introduce traditional dishes associated with products processed from Thai Nguyen tea trees, creating unique and characteristic culinary products of Thai Nguyen province; contributing to preserving and promoting traditional culinary cultural values, enriching tourism products to introduce and promote to a large number of domestic and international tourists.

Promote the development of food processing skills and technology, promote indigenous knowledge; honor artisans and people with creative abilities in culinary processing; create opportunities for localities and units to exchange, learn experiences, and create culinary processing from indigenous ingredients, and introduce local specialty products.

Step by step, build a brand of dishes made from tea trees associated with food service businesses, creating a unique culinary culture of Thai Nguyen. Select the Top 100 unique dishes made from Thai Nguyen tea trees. From there, quickly spread the culinary brand of the land of tea with its rich identity to domestic and foreign tourists.

Each participating team will select and directly prepare at least 03 special dishes with local culinary characteristics and must use products and ingredients from Thai Nguyen tea trees. At the same time, prepare the competition dishes on the spot, along with an introduction of the ingredients, processing process, meaning, value of the dish and organize an exhibition and introduction at the Festival.

At the end of the Festival, the Organizing Committee will award Certificates to participating teams and Certificates for dishes that are in the top 100 special dishes made from Thai Nguyen tea plants selected by the Jury.

Hoang Anh

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