About 100 delicious dishes are displayed at Ha Tien Culture-Culinary Week

Ms. Quang Xuan Lua - Director of Kien Giang Investment, Trade and Tourism Promotion Center said that Ha Tien Culture - Cuisine Week 2024 will take place in Ha Tien City on the occasion of the 289th death anniversary of the founder Mac Cuu. Expected duration is 5 days, from June 29; location at Chieu Anh Cac Square.

Ha Tien Culture - Cuisine Week 2024 aims to promote communication work to introduce tourism potential, images and unique cultural beauty of Kien Giang, focusing on introducing Ha Tien city on domestic and foreign media.

Crab noodle soup and grouper hotpot are famous "seafoods" of Ha Tien. Illustration photo.

At the same time, through the cultural and culinary space of Ha Tien along with sideline activities such as: Ha Tien Food Map performance, Ancient Tray Competition on the occasion of Mac Cuu - Ha Tien's death anniversary to promote, introduce images, information and tourism potential to restore and develop trade and tourism of Kien Giang, especially Ha Tien city.

Introducing Ha Tien cuisine such as: vermicelli dishes (bun ken, bun nham, bun xiem lo), stir-fried banh lot; steamed rice noodles + banh tam bi; crab cake noodle soup; herring salad; sour soup with lemongrass and turmeric (shark or rowing fish); Tram mushroom soup; sau dau salad; Ha Tien crab and crab (crab rice, boiled crab and crab, fried crab, crab hotpot, crab curry...); grilled chicken; boklhong; dried red fish + sun-dried squid; fresh noodles + rice noodles; spring rolls + spring rolls; pho; fish, snail, and clam dishes; Ha Tien sticky rice (salty sticky rice, sweet sticky rice), mango sticky rice, durian sticky rice, Siamese sticky rice); cakes (banh bao chi, thot not cake, biscuits, steamed banana cake, grilled cassava cake, pig skin cake, sticky rice cake, sandwich cake, water fern cake,...); desserts (Kiem sweet soup, tamarind seed sweet soup, Thai sweet soup, white-green-red bean sweet soup, short bean sweet soup, black sticky rice sweet soup, corn sweet soup, cassava sweet soup...),... Besides, there are typical products of Phu Quoc city, Kien Luong district, Chau Thanh district, Bac Lieu province, OCOP products, typical rural industry of the province to enrich the space.

Palm cake and mango sticky rice are specialties of "Ha Tien Thap Canh". Illustrative photo.

The presentation of the map of Ha Tien's typical dishes is assigned according to the strengths of each ward.

Dong Ho Ward with typical dishes: Ha Tien sticky rice, Ken noodles, dishes made from crab (performed in front of Ken noodles audience); Binh San Ward: steamed buns, steamed noodles, and bi cakes (performed steamed noodles); Phao Dai Ward: sour soup with lemongrass and turmeric, palm cakes, and crab paste (performed sour soup with lemongrass and turmeric); To Chau Ward: Tram mushroom soup, dishes made from dried shrimp, and salted eggplant (performed Tram mushroom soup); My Duc Ward: Chicken fire, Boklhong, palm sweet soup, or dishes made from shrimp paste (performed Boklhong); Thuan Yen Commune: herring salad, dishes made from clams and pepper (performed herring salad); Tien Hai Commune: Participated in the performance of dishes made from fish (grouper, cobia) and snails...

There is also a Death Anniversary Tray Competition. The performance of death anniversary trays aims to gather, preserve and maintain cultural values, community activities, decorative arts, and cuisine of Ha Tien region to promote the cultural life of the people and develop Ha Tien tourism.

A corner of To Chau wharf in Ha Tien city. Photo by Hong Linh

Ha Tien City has a history of over 300 years, is a narrow strip of land located along the coast, with all types of terrain: lagoons, bays, plains, mountains, rivers, caves, islands,... creating many beautiful landscapes. It is considered a miniature Ha Long Bay.

Poet Mac Thien Tu composed “Ha Tien Thap Vinh” about 300 years ago with Kim Du Lan Dao (Phao Dai Mountain), Binh San Diep Thuy (Binh San Mountain), Tieu Tu Than Chung (Tam Bao Pagoda), Giang Thanh Da Co (Giang Thanh Rampart), Thach Dong Thon Van (Thach Dong Mountain), Dong Ho An Nguyet (Dong Ho Pond)… Mac Thien Tu was also the one who founded the Chieu Anh Cac Tao Dan (in 1736) in Ha Tien - one of the oldest poetry groups in Vietnam. Nowadays, every Lantern Festival, the local government organizes Vietnam Poetry Day in this “brocade flower” land.

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