The festival has brought together 47 businesses showcasing food and beverages at 47 individual booths, which have been named in the annual list of top 100 specialties of Southern region as voted for by food lovers.
Visitors to this year’s event can also taste and learn how to cook various kinds of Vietnamese traditional cakes and sweetened porridges.
A highlight of the festival was the recreation of a rural market, which was bustling with performances of Don Ca Tai Tu (Southern folk music) by authentic rural singers and instrumentalists.
The making of traditional handicraft products such as weaved mats and baskets, in addition to rice paper making were also introduced to visitors.
Children at the event also had the opportunity to compete in the ‘Em yeu mon Viet” (I love Vietnamese food) cooking contest or take part in folk games such as sack races, blind-man’s-bluff, tug of war, and mandarin square capturing.
The annual festival, the sixth of its kind, is hosted by Ho Chi Minh City’s tourism sector with the aim of advertising fine dining arts and cuisine culture of the Southern region and Vietnam in general to visitors at home and abroad.
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