Saigontourist Group 2024 Culinary and Delicious Culture Festival introduces to the public more than 400 typical regional dishes and drinks at more than 40 culinary booths arranged into 3 areas: north, central, and south. Among them, there are many unique and strange delicacies introduced for the first time at the festival.
In addition, the event also has the participation of culinary brands from Ben Tre and Tay Ninh provinces, partners of Saigontourist Group such as Vietnam Airlines, Saigon Trading Corporation (Satra)...
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Northern cuisine at the Culinary Culture Festival, Delicious dishes. |
Visitors' journey to discover Vietnamese cuisine will pass through three clusters of food stalls, which are also three traditional cultural spaces, imbued with northern, central and southern flavors. Visiting the cluster of northern cuisine stalls, diners will have the opportunity to enjoy a collection of typical delicacies such as Hanoi vermicelli noodles, La Vong fish cakes, squid rolls, crab cakes, Ha Long surface vermicelli noodles, and meat with meat. Mong Cai, grilled chicken mac Khen, Cao Bang doi seeds...
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Visitors to the festival can also enjoy folk games. |
The cluster of central cuisine stalls will bring diners many delicious dishes with strong central flavors, the most prominent of which is the Royal Palace salted rice dish, the ancient "rice to the King" dish.
From rustic ingredients, the "royal chefs" (chefs who cooked for the King) in the past created a unique Hue salted rice dish, famous for its meticulousness in choosing ingredients as well as its unique flavor. typical, and since the reign of King Minh Mang, it has been classified as royal delicacies.
Hue salted rice uses up to 9 different types of salt. The salt plates are arranged in a circle or flower shape, demonstrating the delicate and artistic beauty of Hue culinary culture.
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Country market space at the festival. |
Meanwhile, the cluster of southern food stalls will attract diners with rustic dishes with flavors of the Mekong Delta and the Southeast region such as duck with coconut water, sesbania shrimp salad - cake. rice paper, crispy fried squash perch salad - shrimp crackers, avocado salad rolls, vermicelli with fish sauce, fried wool snails with coconut, grilled snails with pepper, steamed mountain snails with lemongrass, dew-dried rice paper mixed with wild vegetables and pork belly.
Southern cuisine is also attractive with countless snack cakes such as Bac Lieu silkworm cake, Can Tho pandan leaf cake, Ben Tre rice cake, banh xeo, and khot cake. Saigon's street food delicacies also bring a unique impression, with seafood spring rolls and pork belly dishes; Delicious dishes from the fishing village in the coastal area of Can Gio include snail rolls and shrimp leaf salad; Typical Cho Lon region cuisine includes four-spice roast duck and Dong Khanh steamed duck noodles.
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Delicious Vietnamese dishes at the Festival. |
In addition, guests come to the festival not only to "eat", but also have the opportunity to immerse themselves in a space filled with a festive atmosphere imbued with the folk culture of the three regions. Resonating with the culinary space is the "real scene" area of traditional craft villages with highlights of more than 50 types of folk cakes, folk games area and performances of traditional art forms in the style of walking.
Mr. Truong Duc Hung, General Director of Saigontourist Group, said that this event is one of the key activities of Saigontourist Group to contribute to promoting the appeal and uniqueness of Vietnam's rich and diverse cuisine. Nam comes to domestic tourists as well as friends from all over the world.
“Through this event, we also want to promote Ho Chi Minh City as a destination that converges many attractive elements, including cuisine, culinary cultural events and is oriented to become an event. international level" - Mr. Truong Duc Hung, General Director of Saigontourist Group, said.
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Area introducing Phu Yen specialties. |
Saigontourist Group 2024 Culinary and Delicious Culture Festival is open to the public from 16:22 p.m. to 28:31 p.m. every day, continuously from March 3 to XNUMX at Van Thanh Tourist Area, Binh Thanh District.
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Guests arrive at the festival on opening day. |
It is known that in 2022 and 2023, the festival will attract more than 80.000 visitors. The festival was honored to be voted by the World Culinary Awards as "Asia's best culinary festival 2022", "Asia's best culinary festival 2023", and especially this time. The first representative of a Vietnamese culinary festival to receive the award "World's most unique culinary festival 2023" awarded in Dubai, United Arab Emirates in October 10.
