Thang Long cuisine in the heart of Southern Vietnam
A culinary festival will be held in Ho Chi Minh City to introduce the unique cuisine of Thang Long-Hanoi to local residents. They will have a chance to savour authentic Hanoi cuisine and experience the rural ambience of northern Vietnam at a three-day event held to mark the 1,000th anniversary of Thang Long- Hanoi.
The festival named “Thang Long Citadel cuisine in South Vietnam” at Van Thanh Tourism Park would introduce “significant cultural traits and folk cuisine of the North. The event, organised by the HCMC Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism will open on December 11.
There will be a rural market, snack counter, temple festival, and traditional feast. Visitors can enjoy delicacies like banh gai Hang Be, banh com Hang Than and banh tom …A death-anniversary feast and a wedding feast will be the highlights of the event.
There would be performances of ca tru (ceremonial singing), quan ho (love duet), hat xam (songs of an itinerant blind musician), and hat xoan (folk workship singing of Phu Tho Province in this occasion.
Arcoding to managerment board, around 8,000 visitors were expected at the festival. It will run from 4pm to 9pm on each of the three days to server the need of visitors.
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